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Beginnings: Farmingdale sits near the eastern end of what was the Hempstead Plains, the vast, treeless prairie that covered central Nassau County. Englishman Thomas Powell purchased about 15 square miles, including the area that became Farmingdale, from the Marsapeque Indians for 140 pounds in 1695. He and his children divided the land into lots and began more than a dozen decades of agriculture in the area.
Beginnings: Farmingdale sits near the eastern end of what was the Hempstead Plains, the vast, treeless prairie that covered central Nassau County. Englishman Thomas Powell purchased about 15 square miles, including the area that became Farmingdale, from the Marsapeque Indians for 140 pounds in 1695. He and his children divided the land into lots and began more than a dozen decades of agriculture in the area.
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December 3: Blame for Wal-Mart death, graffiti or vandalism?
Shopping frenzy blame misplaced Regarding the story about the cause of death of the Wal-Mart employee, I find it disgusting that several customers have the gall to file lawsuits for their "injuries" ["Worker died of asphyxiation," News, Dec. 2]. The...Tags: Police, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Law Enforcement, Consumer Electronics Industry, Nassau County Police
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College student killed in Farmingdale car crash
jennifer.maloney@newsday.com joseph.mallia@newsday.comJason Shein was 21, studying to become a doctor and hoping to practice one day in New York, close to his family in Levittown. Shortly after midnight Sunday, driving home from a dinner with friends at Applebee's in Farmingdale, he was killed when a...Tags: Crimes, Police, Vehicles, Nassau University Medical Center, Murder
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Reviving Latin in Great Neck schools
Forty fifth-graders at E.M. Baker and Lakeville elementary schools in the Great Neck district are learning the basics of Latin this fall through an after-school program coordinated by Great Neck South High School students Brian Miranda and Christopher...Tags: Charles Wang, High Schools, Apprentices, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Jericho
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Woman pushed to ground in crush at Farmingdale Wal-Mart
christina.hernandez@newsday.comSpurred by the sagging economy, Trude Flynn, 44, of Huntington, said she decided for the first time Friday to join the early bird shoppers prowling for bargains at the Farmingdale Wal-Mart. But after she said she was shoved to the ground and injured by a...Tags: Police, Police Investigations, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
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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: Bethpage, Budgets and Budgeting, West Hempstead, State Budgets, Long Island
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Manslaughter charges dropped in S. Farmingdale '07 crash
Vehicular manslaughter charges were dropped yesterday against a South Farmingdale man who was involved in a February 2007 car crash that left a Baldwin woman dead and her passenger injured. A spokesman for the Nassau district attorney's office said the...Tags: Crimes, Transportation Accidents, Murder, Road Accidents
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Feds change location of East Farmingdale mob dig
More than a month after finding a mob associate's body buried in East Farmingdale, federal agents are digging for more bodies in Brooklyn, according to a news report. It was unclear yesterday which bodies might be found at the Mapleton site, WABC-TV...Tags: Crimes, Organized Crime, Murder, East Farmingdale
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In Farmingdale, 'Miracle' author tells her story
thealy@newsday.comThirty-five years ago, Jayne D'Alessandro wrote an English class assignment at Farmingdale High School and got back a good grade and words of encouragement from her teacher. "With some 'polish,'" the teacher wrote, "changing some words and phrases, a...Tags: Holidays, Christmas, Ohio, Charlottesville (Charlottesville, Virginia), Fiction
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