Community Corner

News From Neighboring Towns, Jan. 23

Patch brings you a weekly rundown of stories from Long Beach, Lynbrook, Malverne-West Hempstead and Rockville Centre.

Here are the most interesting stories from neighboring Patches this week:

Lynbrook

  • A Lynbrook High School student 2010 National Soccer Coaches Association of America’s Scholar All-Eastern Region Team.
  • Two children's Marion Street School in Lynbrook as part of the state's Parents As Reading Partners program.
  • A Lynbrook woman was arrested and charged with vehicular manslaughter after she a 63-year-old male pedestrian in Freeport.

Long Beach

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  • City residents marched in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., who had visited the city many years ago. Check out the .
  • The only Jewish member of the 1993 Super Bowl champion Dallas Cowboys, , recently visited Long Beach's Bach Jewish Center.
  • Long Beach Patch of the city's library, which has always been a focal point of the city's history.

Malverne-West Hempstead

  • In a follow-up, a vet says that the 22 dogs rescued from a house fire last week are in .
  • Parents and faculty of West Hempstead Middle School were left shaken up and seeking answers days after the school received on the phone.
  • Patch did a feature on a West Hempstead man who Hofstra's performance of Ayn Rand's "Night of January 16th."
  • A 22-year-old was while waiting for the bus in Lakeview. The perpetrators are still at large. 

Rockville Centre

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  • Four homes on the same street on the same day earlier this month, police reported.
  • Two days after 17 malnourished dogs were removed from a Rockville Centre home, police discovered at another RVC home. Two cats and 14 dogs were rescued.
  • RVC Patch's holistic health coach 10 Natural Ways to stop a cold or virus.


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