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Beginnings: Although there is no meadow left in East Meadow, its name accurately describes what it once was - the portion of the Hempstead Plains east of the Meadow Brook, which ran through the plains before a parkway took its place. Surveyor Thomas Langdon reported to the 1655 Hempstead Town meeting that the east meadow was suitable for grazing, and three years later cattle took up residence there. Wolves prevented sheep-pasturing there until settlers exterminated them in the early 1700s. By the end of the century 14,000 sheep grazed on the plains, supplying much of the young nation's wool.
Beginnings: Although there is no meadow left in East Meadow, its name accurately describes what it once was - the portion of the Hempstead Plains east of the Meadow Brook, which ran through the plains before a parkway took its place. Surveyor Thomas Langdon reported to the 1655 Hempstead Town meeting that the east meadow was suitable for grazing, and three years later cattle took up residence there. Wolves prevented sheep-pasturing there until settlers exterminated them in the early 1700s. By the end of the century 14,000 sheep grazed on the plains, supplying much of the young nation's wool.
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Aide's criminal history kept under wraps
sophia.chang@newsday.comTo those who knew him, Kelvin Christie had come far from his troubled youth, when he was arrested several times in one year on misdemeanor assault charges. His life now as a college graduate working as a home health aide in Garden City was remarkable and...Tags: Police, Police Arrests, Garden City, Medicine, Assault
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Loophole hid troubled past
sophia.chang@newsday.comFor those who knew him, Kelvin Christie had come far from his troubled youth, when he was arrested several times in one year on misdemeanor assault charges. His life now as a college graduate who was working as a home health aide in Garden City was...Tags: Police, Police Arrests, Garden City, Medicine, Assault
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Assembly endorsements: Golisano's picks
Spin CycleThe political committee funded by Rochester billionaire Thomas Golisano on Saturday released its endorsements for State Assembly. Many of Long Island???s 21 incumbents received Responsible New York???s nod but not Ginny Fields (D-Oakdale). The committee...Tags: Islip, Setauket, Huntington Station, West Islip, Long Beach (Nassau, New York)
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WAY TO GO! Nassau 'Stars' winner
Jessica Fishenfeld, a senior at Great Neck South High School, took first place this summer in Nassau County's "Reach for the Stars" talent search at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow. She beat 119 teens with a rendition of Adam Guettel's "The Light in the...Tags: American Idol, New York Islanders, New York, Popular Music, Melville
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Cabbie robbed in East Meadow
matthew.chayes@newsday.comA cabbie was robbed at gunpoint by his passenger as the taxi was stopped at a red stop light in East Meadow, Nassau police said. The cabbie handed over cash when the passenger put the handgun to his head and demand money at the intersection of East...Tags: Nassau County
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Roundup: Massapequa sweeps East Meadow
Briana Wallace had 15 kills and four aces and Dana Vosilla added five kills and five blocks to lead Massapequa in a 25-18, 25-11, 25-13 win over East Meadow. Julie Bies had 14 digs and four aces in the win. Clarke 3, Carey 1: Molly Karcher had 10...Tags: Massapequa, Melville
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Arrest made in burglary at home of East Meadow woman
bill.mason@newsday.comA man who climbed through a 79-year-old East Meadow woman's bedroom window yesterday was arrested on charges including burglary and resisting arrest, police said. Robert Gandolfo, 26, of 48 Newbridge Rd., East Meadow, entered an unlocked window of a home...Tags: Police, Police Arrests, Hempstead, Crimes
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Nassau nun takes ministry to Africa
bart.jones@newsday.comFor years, Sister Dolores Castellano has ministered to inmates at Nassau County Correctional Center in East Meadow, or to detained illegal immigrants held near Kennedy Airport. Now she is taking her work to Africa, where she is helping launch a...Tags: Migration, Illegal Immigrants, Demographics, Kennedy Airport, Nassau County
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Groups challenge school district over human rights law
jennifer.kelleher@newsday.comEleven advocacy groups, including the Anti-Defamation League, the New York Civil Liberties Union and Lambda Legal, are taking issue with a claim that the East Meadow School District does not consider itself an "education corporation or association."...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Civil Rights, Justice and Rights, Tom Shanahan, Justice System
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Seventh anniversary of 9/11 attacks to be marked Thursday
michael.frazier@newsday.com; StafThe seventh anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks will be marked again by four moments of silence and the somber reading of victims' names, but this year, presidential candidates attending the ceremony have also pledged to put politics aside for...Tags: The White House, William Murphy, Society, Ceremonies, Political Candidates
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Big Apple Circus pitches its tent in East Meadow
steve.parks@newsday.comThere's something about a tent that makes the circus a vagabonds-come-to-town experience. It's an atmosphere you don't get in an arena. When the Big Apple Circus pitched its white-and-gold tent Wednesday for Saturday's opening Long Island performance of...Tags: C.W. Post Campus, Culture, Brookville, Tilles Center, Long Island University
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Guilty child porn plea for LI real estate broker
eden.laikin@newsday.comA Southampton real estate broker pleaded guilty Friday in federal court to receiving child pornography. Matthias von Wrede, 34, was charged last year with uploading hundreds of explicit photographs of children -- some young enough to be in diapers --...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Police, Sag Harbor (Southampton, New York), Sag Harbor (Town of East Hampton, New York), Justice System
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