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Bill Bleyer
Along with colleague Emily Ngo, I cover Oyster Bay Town, its 16 incorporated villages and the City of Glen Cove. My connection to the town began when I was one year old and my mother bought a summer bungalow in Bayville. I have covered the town on and off for 38 years, first as a part-time reporter for an Oyster Bay weekly newspaper while in college, then as editor of the weekly and periodically in my 31 years at Newsday.
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Boating safety bill spurred by Oyster Bay deaths passes in Assembly
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The first boating safety bill spurred by the fatal accident in which three children drowned last July Fourth in Oyster Bay has passed one house of the state Legislature.
A bill requiring all operators of motorized craft to take a boating safety course passed the Assembly on Wednesday. It was sponsored by Assemb. Sandy Galef, a Democrat from Westchester. The same bill is being sponsored in...
Read more »Mitt Romney, Mickey Mouse outvoted for Massapequa school board
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With no one on the ballot Tuesday for the one available school board seat in Massapequa, filling the three-year term came down to write-in votes, which were counted manually until about 1 a.m. Wednesday.
When the tally was done, local tree service company owner Tim Taylor had been elected with 702 votes. No surprise there: He has served on the board for the past six years but hadn’t filed...
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