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In the 1830s and 1840s, Sag Harbor was a cosmopolitan boomtown. The boom was the result of a single industry: whaling.
In the 1830s and 1840s, Sag Harbor was a cosmopolitan boomtown. The boom was the result of a single industry: whaling.
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State: School district consolidation would cut costs
john.hildebrand@newsday.com; melissa.mansfield@newsday.comDeclaring that the state's fiscal crisis demands painful decisions, a state tax-relief commission called yesterday for dozens of cost-cutting measures, including consolidation of all school districts with fewer than 1,000 students. Nineteen districts...Tags: Executive Branch, Moriches, David A. Paterson, Credit and Debt, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Sag Harbor memorializes native Marine killed in Iraq
christina.hernandez@newsday.comThey marched down Main Street toward Long Wharf in Sag Harbor like so many soldiers on a mission to memorialize one of their own. Hundreds of locals and dozens of veterans took to the streets yesterday to remember Lance Cpl. Jordan Haerter, just as...Tags: Norman Rockwell, Defense, Veterans Affairs, North Carolina
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What's a school to do about hate?
All seven teenagers charged in the fatal attack of immigrant Marcelo Lucero are students at Patchogue-Medford High School, raising questions about what role schools should play in teaching about racism. A panel of activists and experts on training and...Tags: Civil Rights, Adults, Marcello Lucero, Depression, Teaching and Learning
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Graduates revel in first formal ceremony at Suffolk Fire Academy
mitchell.freedman@newsday.comA long line of volunteer firefighters, most of them wearing their dress-blue Class A uniforms for the first time, marched in the bright sunshine Saturday morning in the first formal graduation ceremony held by the Suffolk County Fire Academy. More than...Tags: Northport, Moriches, Setauket, Fires, Sayville
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Having fun with 'Celebrity Autobiographies'
steve.parks@newsday.com'Celebrity Autobiographies," a bicoastal hit, makes its Long Island premiere at Bay Street Theatre this Columbus Day weekend after long runs in Los Angeles and a regular Monday night gig at Manhattan's Triad nightclub. You can catch Rachel Dratch and...Tags: Saturday Night Live (tv program), Bay Street Theater, Theater, Los Angeles, Pamela Anderson
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'The Spies of Warsaw,' by Alan Furst
During the war years in the Balkans, on those chilly nights when you counted your blessings if you had a portable generator that provided enough light to read by, Alan Furst's spy novels offered pleasant diversion for many a foreign correspondent. Furst,...Tags: Labor Legislation, Crimes, History, Eric Ambler, Charles de Gaulle
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Selling tip: Evaluate before you sell
Have a professional real estate agent evaluate your home before determining an asking price. ... The price should always be evaluated taking into consideration the location and neighborhood, condition of the house and property, the home's curb appeal...Tags: Real Estate Agents, Sag Harbor (Southampton, New York), Real Estate Sellers
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Long Islanders donate most to Clinton
reid.epstein@newsday.comLong Islanders gave almost as much money to Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign in 2007 as the other major candidates combined, a Newsday analysis of Federal Election Commission data shows. The finding comes as Clinton, the New York...Tags: Elections, Huntington Station, Melville, East Hampton (Suffolk, New York), Massachusetts
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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: Court Administration, Society, Justice System, Nassau County, East Meadow
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Scoop up 'Sex and the City' fashions on a budget
patricia.kitchen@newsday.comAs they drift out of the fantasy world of the blockbuster film "Sex and the City," moviegoers rooted in reality and struggling with budgets may think many of the film's fairy tale elements, say, the $700 Manolo Blahnik shoes, are way out of their reach....Tags: Gucci Group NV, Clothing and Textiles Industry, Donna Karan, Sales, Manhattan (New York City)
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Towers and turrets for the modern age
Special to NewsdayIn the collection of magazine clips and photographs that Faye Guercio gave her architect for her home renovation, she began to notice an inadvertent recurrence of turrets and towers. It wasn't long before she realized she wanted one, too. Faye Guercio...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Architecture, East Islip, North Carolina, Montauk
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