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Beginnings: For centuries, miles of prairie grass spread across the spot that would become Hicksville. When Welsh settler Robert Williams proposed in 1648 to buy a large portion of the eastern plains, including Hicksville, the Matinecock Indians didn't think they were giving up much as they preferred to live in the forest. Most British settlers were just as uninterested because it was so remote. The land lay vacant for almost two centuries, until Jericho businessman Valentine Hicks, son-in-law of the nationally famous Quaker preacher Elias Hicks, turned his attention to the prairie land he had acquired.
Photo: At St. John's Protectory, Hicksville (Photo from "Long Island To-day" by Fred...
Photo: At St. John's Protectory, Hicksville (Photo from "Long Island To-day" by Fred...
Beginnings: For centuries, miles of prairie grass spread across the spot that would become Hicksville. When Welsh settler Robert Williams proposed in 1648 to buy a large portion of the eastern plains, including Hicksville, the Matinecock Indians didn't think they were giving up much as they preferred to live in the forest. Most British settlers were just as uninterested because it was so remote. The land lay vacant for almost two centuries, until Jericho businessman Valentine Hicks, son-in-law of the nationally famous Quaker preacher Elias Hicks, turned his attention to the prairie land he had acquired.
Photo: At St. John's Protectory, Hicksville (Photo from "Long Island To-day" by Frederick Ruther, 1909)
Photo: At St. John's Protectory, Hicksville (Photo from "Long Island To-day" by Frederick Ruther, 1909)
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Hicksville man charged in stabbing
patrick.whittle@newsday.comNassau police arrested a 18-year-old Hicksville man on assault charges after he allegedly stabbed a man who bumped into him on the street. The defendant, Paul Rello III of Glow Lane, was walking on Moeller Street in Hicksville when he bumped into the 21-...Tags: Trials
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Suspicious fire torches cars at Bethpage auto shop
john.valenti@newsday.comA suspicious fire torched vehicles parked alongside an auto body repair shop in Bethpage early Friday, causing significant damage to at least three of them, investigators said. A spokesman for the Nassau County Fire Marshal's Office said the cause of the...Tags: Ford, Vehicles, Bethpage, Car Repair and Maintenance Tips, Saturn
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Next in the GOP rotation: County and Council
Spin CycleA cozy round-robin arrangement may be in the works if Nassau Legis. Edward Mangano (R-Bethpage) loses his bid to unseat County Executive Thomas Suozzi this fall. Mangano was nominated by the Nassau Republican executive committee last week. Suozzi is......Tags: Republican Party, Rose Marie
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Long Islanders to protest stimulus plan at TEA Parties
sid.cassese@newsday.comMore than half a dozen tax protest rallies, dubbed TEA Parties, are scheduled for Long Island Wednesday, the deadline for filing federal income tax returns. "It's about Americans coming together to protest government excesses," said Greg Barry of West...Tags: Chicago Board of Trade, Barack Obama, West Islip, Massapequa, Long Island Rail Road
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Hicksville
VOTING 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday at Burns Avenue, Dutch Lane, East Street, Old Country Road and Woodland elementary schools. THE BUDGET The district is proposing a budget of $110,943,748 for the 2009-10 school year, a 2.32 percent increase over the...Tags: State Budgets, SUNY Nassau Community College, Referenda, Labor Legislation, Schools
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Special trip marks LIRR's 175th anniversary
alfonso.castillo@newsday.comAs Long Island has evolved from farmlands and horse carriages to housing developments and congested highways, one piece of infrastructure has stood the test of time - a straight line of train tracks cutting through the middle of the Island. It is the...Tags: Cobble Hill, Flatbush, Economic Policy, Trips and Vacations, Brooklyn (Windham, Connecticut)
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Nassau GOP eyes legislator to take on Suozzi
When Tom Suozzi first ran for county executive eight years ago, Nassau Republicans put up gun-loving Wall Street financier Bruce Bent, whose loose lips and decade of GOP baggage did him in. Four years ago, the Nassau GOP put up a Republican retread,...Tags: Calendars, Days, and Months, Angelina Jolie, Republican Party, Tom Suozzi, Government
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Fire tears through home under renovation in Hicksville
matthew.chayes@newsday.comThe blaze that lit up Cambridge Drive just after midnight Saturday took firefighters more than an hour to bring under control. With the recently purchased house under extensive renovation, no one was home on the 100 block of Cambridge Drive when,...Tags: Fires
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The circle of love
When my mother passed I truly believed that there would never be another soul who would love me unconditionally, with as full a heart, as she. Years passed, a void growing within me, believing that this hole would never be filled with the adoration and... -
After tot's death, state to visit Hicksville school
michael.amon@newsday.comThe State Education Department said Tuesday it will visit Carousel Day School as part of a review in response to the death there last week of 2-year-old Olivia Raspanti. The visit had not been scheduled by Tuesday evening, but department spokesman...Tags: Carousel Day School, McDonald's, Schools, Olivia Raspanti, Employees
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DA opens criminal probe in day-care death
ann.givens@newsday.comThe Nassau district attorney's office has opened a criminal investigation into the Hicksville day care center where a toddler died this week after choking on a carrot, a district attorney spokesman confirmed Friday. The Carousel Day School, where 2-year-...Tags: Crimes, Kathleen Rice, Cheese Corn, Carrots, Lawyers
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Death spurs worries about unlicensed day care
michael.amon@newsday.comState regulators Monday began investigating new reports of unlicensed day care agencies as dozens of phone calls poured in from worried parents. Spurred by recent news articles on 2-year-old Olivia Raspanti's death at unlicensed Carousel Day School in...Tags: Family, Long Island, New York
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