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Thursday, January 6, 2005

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Tragedy strikes home

In Parkside Hills, Tilak Fonseka waited all week for news about his cousins and friends back home in Sri Lanka, where the death toll has exceeded 18,000. Wherever we looked in Queens we found residents and immigrant communities that have been profoundly s
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A wave of sorrow

Our thoughts are with the Queens residents who have lived in horror not knowing the fate of relatives and loved ones in the countries that were devastated by the tsunami. According to a published report, 43,000 Bangladeshis call Astoria home and 68,300 In
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‘Good unto all men’

On Dec. 27, 1657, the town clerk, the sheriff and several magistrates of Flushing wrote a letter to Governor Peter Stuyvesant in which they declared that they refused to follow his direction banning entry to a new religious movement known as the Quakers o
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Suspect in murders eludes arrest at LIJ

Brad Washington, 18, also known as “Brad Perry” and “LB,” entered the hospital shortly after midnight and left at about 7 a.m., police said. He allegedly shot and killed 35-year-old Robert Jarvis of South Jamaica after a dispute at
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Cabaret group seeks performers at Flushing Town Hall

The group is looking for two entertainers to perform as part of the “Manhattan Cabaret Association Presents” show and join some of the organization’s members on stage for a Jan. 21 show.

MACC performers, including Phillip Officer,

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