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Thursday, February 7, 2008

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QStage: Queens Theater Calendar

Duck-Walls – LaGuardia Performing Arts Center presents. This play is based on a true story following the plight of five teenagers, who are admitted to Clarkdale Memorial Recovery Unit for drug and alcohol abuse, and the staff entrusted to protect them. Th
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Beware of Simple Solutions

In theory, it sounds good. But enforcing such a ban could become a nightmare. Depending on the neighborhood in which an offender lives, it may be nearly impossible to find an affordable home that does not exist within 1,000 feet of a school or park. Such
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Unspeakable Evil

The young girl who had run away from her home in Brooklyn claims that she was sold by a pimp to NYPD Detective Wayne Taylor and Zelika Brown, who went by the name of Mommy Z. The two are accused of forcing the girl to attend sex parties where she was paid
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Common Sense Under Arrest

According to published reports, the child threw a temper tantrum in the principal’s office last week. He was sent there because he had allegedly misbehaved in the classroom. When he didn’t calm down in the principal’s office, he was hand
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An Island for All the People

Preppy schools such as Dalton, Trinity and Spence would have been granted permits that would give them exclusive use of two-thirds of the island’s 63 ball fields between the hours of 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays. The schools were to pay the city $52
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Gallagher rape case must be heard

I can’t help but think this decision was clearly politically motivated. For if Councilman Gallagher was just an average citizen, I don’t think these charges would have been dropped.

You have to realize that this was a 10-count indictmen
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North Flushing wants rezoning

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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Gennaro fighting SJU dorm plan

Since the beginning, I have been an ardent opponent of this project and have, on numerous occasions, vociferously protested any such measure taken by St. John’s University. And, I continue my unabated resistance to the creation of dorms on Henley R
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LIRR announcements rile Little Neck

It’s 5:40 a.m. and I’m approaching the Little Neck Long Island Rail Road train station. At this time in the morning it’s nice and peaceful, very few cars on the streets and in most of the nearby homes, the lights are out and people, incl
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Western Queens Arts & Entertainment Calendar

Galleries & Exhibits

Subjective Histories of Sculpture II – Three artists at various stages of their careers have been invited to present their own take on art history. They cite as examples specific works, bodies of work, texts, or even person
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Ackerman is not anti-Christian

I have known Gary for four decades and there is nothing in his background that lends credence to this accusation by Policarpio. (For the record, I am a Republican and a licensed eucharistic minister in the Episcopal Church.) Policarpio, on the other hand,
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Northeast Queens Community Calendar

Events

There’s A Lot in Fort Totten – Journey back to the final years of the 19th century on an Urban Park Ranger tour of Fort Totten. Find out the history behind this Civil War era water battery that was built to protect New York’s har
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Southeast Queens Community Calendar

Events

Black Ice, The Lost History of the Colored hockey League of the Maritimes – Authors George and Darril Fosty, with Underground Railroad historian Drakeford Levi, discuss this lost history of the sons/grandsons of runaway American slaves who f
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Western Queens Community Calendar

Events

Saturday Dances – Music by Jean and Joe.

When: Feb. 9 and 23, 8 p.m. to 12 midnight

Where: Italian Charities of America, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst

Contact: 718-478-3100

Flea Market

When: Feb. 16, 10 a.m.

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