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Bethpage braves cold for St. Patrick's Day parade
Photo credit: Tara Conry
“I think they have Leprechauns in this parade,” 9-year-old Kate McNerney said Sunday afternoon as she sat in the back of her family’s minivan, sipping hot cocoa with her 5-year-old sister, Shayla, and waiting for the 22nd annual Bethpage St. Patrick’s Day Parade to start.
The girls, who had traveled from Merrick to watch their grandpa -- former Bethpage Fire Commissioner Nick Markakis -- march...