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Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley and other elected officials are calling on the city to change through truck routes to local routes in Maspeth as they wait for a comprehensive Maspeth Bypass Plan. No more trucks!
Pols demand city ban big rigs in Maspeth
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Pictured from left to right are Gottes Café Owner Vincent Gottesman, Queens Chamber of Commerce Chief of Operations Sophia Ganosis, U.S. Census Partnership Specialists Luise Pedroso Kipler, Onias Pacheco, and Cristina Marquez. For Queens Chamber, census is serious biz
The U.S. Census Bureau and the Queens Chamber of Commerce teamed up last Wednesday to illustrate to Queens business owners the significance of the 2010 Census beyond getting an accurate count of t...
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CURES vies for Glendale open space
Glendale residents angling for a new open space spent a recent afternoon touring a possible site between 65th Street and Mafera Park. The walk-through was organized by Civics United for Railroad...
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104th Precinct Police Blotter
02/22/2010 – 02/29/2010
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Gamblers watch a screen for race results at the Aqueduct Racetrack. On a recent Thursday afternoon, the track was less than full. The state is hoping to turn that around. A quiet day at Aqueduct
Regulars play horses, leaving controversy to the state
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Vince Marchetti, manufacturers representative for green cleaning product company Envirox. It’s easy being 'green'
Queens Chamber shows businesses how, again
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Pictured form left to right are Detective Kevin Weber from the 104th Precinct, Captain James Marron from Transit District 33, Deputy Inspector Keith Green from the 104th Precinct, and Roe Daraio from Citizens of Maspeth and Elmhurst Together (COMET). 104th top cop warns seniors to be vigilant
Burglars targeting elderly who live alone
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104th Precinct Police Blotter
02/15/2010 to 02/21/2010
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Ridgewood Rite Aid the right stuff
City agrees to buy site for school
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Grover Cleveland principal, Crowley, defend school
Say low grad rate a poor measure
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104th Precinct Police Blotter
02/08/2010 to 02/14/2010
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Middle Village residents Laura Zimmer and Anthony Pedalino on 69th Place, where they say early-morning train transfer operations are keeping the whole neighborhood up. MidVille nabes call for train transfer time change
NY&A says not so fast
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Congressman Anthony Weiner talks healthcare with members of the Glendale Property Owners Association. Congressman Weiner talks health care to Glendale Prop Owners
Congressman Anthony Weiner stopped by a Glendale Property Owners Association meeting last Thursday, mainly to update his constituents about the health care bill the House of Representatives has be...
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104th Precinct Police Blotter
02/01/10 – 02/07/10
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Seminerio sentenced to six years
Anthony Seminerio is headed to prison. Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald sentenced the 74-year-old former Queens assemblyman convicted of fraud to six years in prison on February 4. Seminerio resigned ...
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Unemployment rises in 30 states in January (AP)

A job seekers talks to a potential employer in California. The United States said it would expose AP - Unemployment rose in 30 states in January, the Labor Department said Wednesday, evidence that jobs remain scarce in most regions of the country.


Wed Mar 10 11:54:29 -0600 2010
Obama pushing on health care end game (AP)

US President Barack Obama speaks on healthcare and health insurance reform at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania. Obama has launched a populist assault on price-gouging American insurance firms, escalating his last-ditch bid to pass a historic health reform bill.(AFP/Saul Loeb)AP - President Barack Obama is pushing a new anti-fraud plan and his top health official is challenging the nation's insurers as the administration cranks up the pressure for a sweeping overhaul of the nation's medical system.


Wed Mar 10 12:11:14 -0600 2010
'Lost Boys' actor Corey Haim dead in Calif. at 38 (AP)

This undated publicity image provided by A&E shows actor Corey Haim, who appeared in the A&E reality TV show 'The Two Coreys' with his friend Corey Feldman. Haim, a 1980s teen heartthrob for his roles in 'Lucas' and 'The Lost Boys' whose career was blighted by drug abuse, died Wednesday March 10, 2010. He was 38. (AP Photo/Courtesy AETN, L. Pief Weyman) NO SALES. MANDATORY CREDITAP - Corey Haim, a 1980s teen heartthrob whose career was blighted by drug abuse, has died. He was 38.


Wed Mar 10 12:23:34 -0600 2010