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Beginnings: West Hempstead, a 4-square-mile unincorporated area in the Town of Hempstead, was once a central meeting place for Long Island Indians. Later it was a flourishing farm community when President George Washington, a knowledgeable planter, passed through the area in 1790 and commented on the agricultural techniques. Farmer Joseph Gildersleeve built a house on Hempstead Turnpike in 1794. His farm was later purchased by Hiram K. Bedell, who built a larger house about 1835. The Bedell house has been moved to Nassau County's Old Bethpage Village Restoration.
Beginnings: West Hempstead, a 4-square-mile unincorporated area in the Town of Hempstead, was once a central meeting place for Long Island Indians. Later it was a flourishing farm community when President George Washington, a knowledgeable planter, passed through the area in 1790 and commented on the agricultural techniques. Farmer Joseph Gildersleeve built a house on Hempstead Turnpike in 1794. His farm was later purchased by Hiram K. Bedell, who built a larger house about 1835. The Bedell house has been moved to Nassau County's Old Bethpage Village Restoration.
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National Wholesale Liquidators kicks off last LI sales
keiko.morris@newsday.comWest Hempstead-based National Wholesale Liquidators will begin going-out-of-business sales at all six of its Long Island stores on Monday. The result of this week's auction in bankruptcy court, the store-closing sales are part of a wider liquidation...Tags: Auction Service, Financially Distressed Companies, Washington (Litchfield, Connecticut), Court Administration, Sales
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Martha Fox, longtime Newsday employee, dead at 84
joie.tyrrell@newsday.comMartha Fox, a longtime Newsday employee and a former resident of West Hempstead, died Nov. 23 at her home in The Villages, Fla. She was 84. Family members described Fox as a caring individual who was very generous to her nieces and nephews. Former...Tags: Marketing, Ohio, Government, National Government, Newspapers
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Cops: Driver pulled over in stolen car
joseph.mallia@newsday.comA West Hempstead man was arrested after State Police stopped him Wednesday in a stolen car on the Meadowbrook State Parkway, police said. John Oxios, 52, was pulled over shortly after 5 p.m. while driving a 1996 Lincoln with Florida license plates....Tags: Police, Vehicles, Police Arrests, Florida
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National Wholesale Liquidators auctions off assets
keiko.morris@newsday.comWest Hempstead-based discount chain National Wholesale Liquidators held an auction yesterday to sell all of its assets less than a month after filing for bankruptcy protection. The founding family that has been running the chain and its parent company,...Tags: General Electric Capital Corporation, Auction Service, Long Island, Financially Distressed Companies, Justice System
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School consolidation has its benefits, drawbacks
jennifer.kelleher@newsday.comEleanor Tritt is both superintendent and principal of the one-school Amagansett district. She often answers her own phone, whereas in larger districts callers have to go through secretaries or clerks before speaking with the superintendent. "Because we'...Tags: State Budgets, High Schools, Long Beach (Nassau, New York), Amagansett, Schools
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Four charged after social club raid
john.valenti@newsday.comA late-night raid by law enforcement officials led to the closure of a West Hempstead social club and the arrest of four men on Saturday, Nassau County district attorney's office officials said Monday. All of the charges filed against the men are...Tags: Nassau County Police, Casino and Gambling Industry, Dining and Drinking, Casino and Gambling, Police Arrests
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Anniversaries
65th BONNIE AND HENRY LIOTTI of Elmont celebrated their anniversary Feb. 7. Henry also celebrated his 90th birthday. A surprise party was hosted by their son and daughter-in-law at the VFW Hall in Oceanside. Friends and family including their seven...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Defense, Pennsylvania, East Meadow, Armed Forces
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LI KIDS: A different holiday tradition
Special to NewsdayTurkey isn't the only thing families have gathered around this long holiday weekend. Traditionally for those parents who have high school seniors, this also is the time to pull together college applications in an attempt to get them out of the way...Tags: Government, Walt Whitman, Colleges and Universities, National Government, School Examinations
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November 29: School-aid plan unfair, sober homes, LIPA costs, college presidents' pay
School-aid plan was unfair Gov. David Paterson proposed, and has now withdrawn, what he termed a "progressive" approach to sharing the hardship of state aid cuts for schools, imposing a sliding scale of percentage cuts based on district wealth and...Tags: Executive Branch, Government, Contracts, Colleges and Universities, Long Island Power Authority
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Makeover: Handicap-accessible bath in Floral Park
sylvia.king-cohen@newsday.comCathy and Bob Buckley say they knew when they moved into their Floral Park home seven years ago that some changes had to be made. And one change in particular has made a world of difference to their eldest child - Thomas, 15, who has cerebral palsy and...Tags: Home Depot Incorporated, Medicine, Mathematics, Elmont
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Comptroller: Water districts overflowing in funds
sid.cassese@newsday.comNassau's 19 commissioner-run special water districts have a surplus of more than $56 million, County Comptroller Howard Weitzman said, adding ratepayers should be offered a fee reduction. "In this time of extreme fiscal pressure on our local taxpayers,...Tags: State Budgets, Natural Resource Industry, Long Island, Budgets and Budgeting, Bethpage
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LIRR commuters will face another day of delays
For the third day in a row - and the fourth in less than a week - Long Island Rail Road commuters can expect significant delays this morning, and possibly beyond, as they continue to deal with the fallout from the worst LIRR accident in 15 years,...Tags: Vehicles, Helena Williams, New York, Human Mishaps, Transportation
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