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Thursday, January 31, 2008

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Southeast Queens Arts & Entertainment Calendar

Books

Author Talk: Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant, “Gotta Keep on Tryin’” – Ten years have passed and Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant have revisited Gayle, Pat and Marcus in their new novel with true-to-life storylines and realistic plot t
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Stay calm, but Stay Alert

Public health officials began immediately to contact anyone who might have come into contact with the counselor and offering them antibiotics. There is no reason to fear that this death and the recent death of a high school student in Massapequa, L.I., ar
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Holding Free Enterprise Hostage

We totally understand why the community opposed the move. Those area residents who had grown accustomed to shopping at Waldbaum’s wanted to make certain that another supermarket would take its place. In fact, this has already happened in a number of
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Civics 101

The Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments give defendants the right to be tried by a jury of their peers in criminal cases where the sentence could exceed six months in prison. It is a right that can be waived by the defendants but not by the court or the prose
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Saving the OTB

We’d hate to see that happen for a number of reasons. First and foremost, OTB provides jobs for hundreds of employees with families to feed. Second, OTB parlors provide a safe and legal place to wager on horses. And if OTB were run the way it was in
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Gennaro gets donation from dorm developer

We write to you, hoping that your office can assist us, the residents of Jamaica Estates, during this difficult period. Our lovely neighborhood is being threatened by Saint John’s University’s construction of a 485-bed dormitory facility in th
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North Flushing wants rezoning – now

We were supposed to have been rezoned two years ago. Amanda Burden, director of the City Planning Commission, wrote in a letter that “the city of New York is very privileged to have such a vital and unique neighborhood as North Flushing.” If
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Sen. Padavan: Get to know St. John’s students

In debating this project, some local community leaders and residents have maligned St. John’s students as “irresponsible and destructible” menaces to the Jamaica Estates community. As an active member of the St. John’s student bod
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No. 7 service must be restored

As chairman of Program Services for the Flushing Business Improvement District and a member of Community Board 7, representing Flushing, Whitestone, Bay Terrace, and College Point, I write to express the unacceptable disruption caused to thousands who wor
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Anti-Christmas vote was wrong

I am a Jew and proud of it. I attended Temple Beth Sholom classes, youth group and Hebrew instruction for most of my school years. I also was privileged to be able to spend a wonderful year in Israel.

However, I take high offense at your opposition
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QStage: Queens Theater Calendar

Act Three: One Act – The 2008 Long Island City one-act festival: two programs of six plays featuring 10 playwrights, nine directors and a huge cast of 34 talented actors. Presented by the Secret Theatre and the Queens Players.

When: Jan. 31 and Feb
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We want peace in Jackson Hts. library

The trouble is that the librarians, who have now installed themselves in the very center of the library, are constantly talking to people (who are seeking books from other libraries, etc.) in a loud voice as if they were selling hot dogs at a ball game. <
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Northeast Queens Community Calendar

Events

Focus the Nation – Focus the Nation is a national tech-in engaging students and citizens with political leaders and decision makers about Global Warming solutions. The evening will start with the new half-hour video from the Habitable Planet

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