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Body of missing boater found in Long Island creek
Police in New York say they have found the body of a Long Island man reported missing after his boat was discovered idling with no one aboard. Suffolk County police said the body of 49-year-old Ralph Blachly was found Saturday evening at the mouth of...Tags: West Islip, Bodies of Water, Rivers, New York
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North Hempstead
NORTH HEMPSTEAD Unless specified, meetings are at Town Hall, 220 Plandome Rd., Manhasset. TOWN BOARD 7:30 p.m. Aug. 4 ZONING BOARD 9:30 a.m. Aug. 12 EAST HILLS BOARD OF TRUSTEES 8 p.m. Monday, Village Hall, 209 Harbor Hill Rd. FLOWER HILL...Tags: Housing and Urban Planning, Interior Policy
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Soaking up sun, music in Shorefront Park
marissa.bholan@newsday.comHundreds of Long Islanders lounged in beach chairs, spread out on blankets, sat in a small section of stadium seating or simply stood Saturday as they listened to the music that filled Shorefront Park in Patchogue. They came together to experience the...Tags: Music Industry, Classic Rock, Great South Bay, Popular Music, Music
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Riverhead benefit raises money for Suffolk SPCA
keegan.calligar@newsday.comSpectators cheered as horses, carrying riders in flag-print vests, trotted in close formation, and later a K-9 dog succeeded in sniffing out the can that contained gasoline. The four-footed performers were all in presentations yesterday at the first...Tags: Animals
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Brand: Village mayor steps up to town politics
When Mayor Paul Pontieri first rolled out final plans for a seven-story hotel and apartment complex in the heart of downtown Patchogue a year ago, one top planner said he was amazed at the reaction to what he'd expected would be a tough sell. "People...Tags: Democratic Party, Michael White, Government, Economic Policy, National Government
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NAACP's influence felt on Long Island
martin.evans@newsday.comIn a Long Island community where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once visited to promote school integration, the number of black teachers in the Malverne school district is little changed from a generation ago, despite ongoing efforts to further integrate...Tags: Barack Obama, Teaching and Learning, Steve Levy, Martin Luther King Jr., New York
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Grumman's reign on LI: humble start, lunar high point
james.bernstein@newsday.comGrumman Corp's success in building the spidery-looking vehicle that landed astronauts on the moon brought it worldwide acclaim, but to generations of Long Islanders, the company was as familiar as a next-door neighbor. For decades it was a reliable...Tags: Employers, Employees, Armed Forces, Defense, Tourism and Leisure Industry
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Lunar landing: Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin, 79, born in Montclair, N.J. served as lunar module pilot for Apollo 11 for the first manned moon landing. He just published a memoir, "Magnificent Desolation." Some people thought: ''Space, it's so big a place up there, maybe we ought to...Tags: Government, Space Programs, Buzz Aldrin, National Government
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Lunar landing: Christine Zuk
Christine Zuk,53, of Bellmore, is a registered nurse. She was 13 in 1969, living with her family in Wantagh. Her father, Walter Karl Ziegler, of Vienna, Austria, was a rocket scientist, aerospace and civil engineer who worked on the lunar module project....Tags: Boeing Co., Space Programs
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Lunar landing: Diane Green
Diane Green, 60, was a sophomore at Hofstra then. She is a fifth-grade teacher at Franklin Elementary School in Hempstead. I had just migrated from Alabama to Maryland and from Maryland to Hofstra. I was a new student. I was busy trying to get oriented...Tags: Alabama, Malcolm X, New York, Maryland
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Lunar landing: Joan Kelly
Joan Kelly, 78, of Cutchogue. Widow of Thomas J. Kelly, the Grumman Corp. engineer and propulsion expert known as father of the moon lander. They raised six children together during the development of the lunar module. We all loved the (space) program....Tags: Colorado, Florida
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When man first walked on the moon, Long Island was there
jennifer.smith@newsday.comThomas J. Kelly, the propulsion expert known as the father of the moon lander, heaved a sigh of relief as a cargo plane carrying the LM-1 left the Grumman airfield in Bethpage for the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It was June 1967, just months after...Tags: Cape Canaveral, International Business Machines Corporation, Plant Openings, Satellite Technology, Buzz Aldrin
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