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Beginnings: Bellerose Village owes its development, and much of its charm, to a Massachusetts real estate developer who was years ahead of both Levittown and Betty Friedan. In the early 1900s, Helen M. Marsh had a dream of developing a model community of modestly priced houses. Moderately well-to-do and fiercely independent at a time when women were not expected to have business acumen, let alone clout, she visited Long Island and decided on the undeveloped grassy plains of western Nassau for carrying out her plan. Marsh sold her family home in Lynn, Mass., and formed the United Holding Co. in 1906 to raise the $155,000 needed to buy 77 acres of mostly gladioli fields. She had other enterpri...
Beginnings: Bellerose Village owes its development, and much of its charm, to a Massachusetts real estate developer who was years ahead of both Levittown and Betty Friedan. In the early 1900s, Helen M. Marsh had a dream of developing a model community of modestly priced houses. Moderately well-to-do and fiercely independent at a time when women were not expected to have business acumen, let alone clout, she visited Long Island and decided on the undeveloped grassy plains of western Nassau for carrying out her plan. Marsh sold her family home in Lynn, Mass., and formed the United Holding Co. in 1906 to raise the $155,000 needed to buy 77 acres of mostly gladioli fields. She had other enterprises, including a silver mine in Colorado, but during the financial panic of 1907 she sold more than $50,000 in personal securities to save the property.
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TOWN HALL AGENDA: HUNTINGTON
HUNTINGTON Unless specified, meetings are at town hall, 100 Main St. PLANNING BOARD 7:30 p.m. Wednesday ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS 6 p.m. Thursday The board will consider: Commack: Christopher Psadgur requests long-street side-yard and rear variance...Tags: West Hills (Huntington, New York), Dining and Drinking, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Commack, Huntington Station
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LIRR prez: Worst accident in 15 years
alfonso.castillo@newsday.comSunday's Jamaica train derailment was the worst LIRR accident in 15 years and promises to complicate the holiday week commutes for passengers at least through the Tuesday morning rush hour, LIRR President Helena Williams said. "We have significant repair...Tags: Moving and Storage, New York, Railway Accidents, Helena Williams, Long Island Rail Road
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Cops: Diabetic driver causes chain reaction of crashes
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Donno: Craig is Malcolm's boy (Updated)
Spin CycleNassau Senate candidate Barbara Donno, in a press release, says Manhattan Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver opposes Belmont redevelopment because he wants to protect Aqueduct, and so will the Senate if Craig Johnson (right) helps turn city Democrat...Tags: Government, Manhattan (New York City), Long Island, New York, Manhasset
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November 11: Hate-crime killing, GOP excuses, honoring vets, new bipartisanship
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4 lawyers stripped of pension, credits
sandra.peddie@newsday.com and eden.laikin@newsday.comAs the New York State comptroller stripped four more private attorneys from Long Island of pensions or pension credits yesterday, three of the four plan to fight the decision. And two of the municipal agencies found by the state to have improperly...Tags: Wages and Pensions, Pension and Welfare, Natural Resource Industry, Justice System, Long Island
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September 21: presidential candidates, suing the shamers, misreading diabetes, budget advice for Suozzi, Medicaid cuts
Naming and shaming Regarding the article "Suozzi to unveil details of tax hike" [News, Sept. 15]: Perhaps one of the reasons for this tax increase is to pay for lawsuits such as the one brought by Andrea Sangeramo for her inclusion on Nassau's "Hall of...Tags: Columbia University, Government, John McCain, Health Insurance, Wading River
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Phillips takes pop music detour
Special to the Chicago TribuneIt takes a songwriter such as Sam Phillips to depart from the routine expectations set by the last 50-plus years of pop music. Kicking off a fall tour Saturday in Chicago at the Old Town School of Folk Music, she detoured into German cabaret, French...Tags: Popular Music, Metal and Mineral, Music, Television, Old Town (Chicago, Illinois)
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July 13: Outreach to heroin addicts, flip-flopping or flexibility?, Jackson's gaffe
Flexibility a virtue in politics James Klurfeld's column "A politics of substance, not 'gotcha'" [Opinion, July 10] is right that, "Voters care more about the overall substance of a candidate's position than whether there's been some shift in it as the...Tags: Barack Obama, Church and State Relations, Addiction, Long Island, Jesse Jackson
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Loudon Wainwright III, Tony Joe White, Little Feat revisit their old songs
Special to The TimesEven when Loudon Wainwright III was writing songs in his early 20s, many of his characters were already looking back wistfully at their younger days -- such as the protagonist of his 1970 recording "School Days," who begins his tale, "In Delaware when I...Tags: Los Angeles, Jimmy Buffett, Delaware, Ryan Adams, Natalie Merchant
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Robert Plant and Alison Krauss at the Greek Theatre
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe genre of pop standards is a bit out of bounds for Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, whose high-profile collaboration excavates a more traditional sector of America's musical geography. But when the singers and their band came to the Greek Theatre on...Tags: Popular Music, Music, Ray Charles, Country Music, Texas
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Concern at Massapequa High after meningitis death
matthew.chayes@newsday.com delthia.ricks@newsday.comThe deaths from meningitis of two people from Nassau and Queens within 24 hours is an extremely rare occurrence, and health officials say the infections are neither connected nor evidence of an outbreak. "There is no need for panic," Dr. Abby Greenberg,...Tags: Schools, High Schools, Massapequa, Illnesses, Health and Safety at School
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