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  • Nassau Championship Results

    D (BJFK), 8-7; 120 -- Lanzillotti (Roslyn) D Araoz (Wantagh), 4-1 126 -- Lofrese (GC) D Turano (Wantagh), 7-2 132 -- Irby (Freeport) D Paradiso (Massapequa), 6-0) 138 -- McDevitt (Wantagh) TF Knauer (Baldwin), 15-0 145 -- Hernandez (Mepham) P Schmelzinger   Read more »

  • Freeport laundry could shut, cut 105 jobs

    workers and possibly closing its Freeport plant, according to a state filing.The Oceanside-based commercial laundry service company did not return several calls for comment but stated in the filing that its reason for the potential cuts is "economic." The   Read more »

  • Cops: Long Beach man charged in 2 robberies

    on Feb. 1 at 10 p.m., police said Felder and two others approached two young men in front of a home on Whaley Street in Freeport . One of the trio displayed a black handgun, police said, the other a silver revolver. They stole a wallet containing cash and   Read more »

  • Independent Catholic schools offer option

    in Uniondale and nearby Kellenberg Memorial High School. Hoagland said that while the order may not be able to take over any of the schools, it could help guide them to a new model in which lay people run them."We would like to see a new type of model that   Read more »

  • Cops: Man charged in Nassau bank robberies

    arrested Friday in Hempstead . He has been charged with giving tellers threatening notes demanding cash at a Roslyn Savings Bank in Freeport on Nov. 22, a Roslyn Savings Bank in East Meadow on Jan. 9, a TD Bank in Hempstead on Jan. 12, and a Capital One bank   Read more »

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About Freeport, NY

Freeport (officially The Incorporated Village of Freeport) is a village in the Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, USA, on the South Shore of Long Island. The population was 43,783 at the 2000 census. A settlement since the 1640s, it was once an oystering community and later a resort popular with the New York City theater community. It is now primarily a bedroom suburb but retains a modest commercial waterfront and some light industry. The village is racially and ethnically diverse: the 2000 census shows the population as 42.9% White, 32.6% African American, and 33.5% Hispanic or Latino of any race.

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