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Uniondale H.S. evacuated after threat
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... credit: Newsday/Dick Yarwood Nassau County police said bomb squad officers and a canine unit are on the scene at Uniondale High School after a threatening note was found on campus. (April 28, 2007) where Police and school officials have evacuated ... Comment?
Holy Chewbaca, it's Star Wars
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... in London on April 10, 2009 is now on the U.S. leg of the tour. Saturday night it was at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, NY where this iReporter caught up with it and some intrepid fans. Billed as a spectacular musical and visual event and it ... Comment?
New town cemetery policy prevents burial in wrong grave
... member of the deceased to sign such an affidavit before a grave can be opened. The staff at Greenfield Cemetery in Uniondale, the only town-run cemetery on Long Island, initially decided to require an affidavit from a funeral director to avoid ... Comment?
EDITORIAL: Private management needed for Hempstead cemetery
Treatment of the dead is always a measure of a community's civility and values. That's why Town of Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray acted so quickly to minimize the fallout from recent burial errors at Greenfield Cemetery in Uniondale. Comment?
Student hit by car recovering in NUMC
Gregory Welch, a junior, was hit by a car at Uniondale Avenue. A University student was hit by a car while walking across the intersection between Uniondale Avenue and Hempstead Turnpike on Monday, April 14, and is now recovering at Nassau University Medical Center. Comment?
High-Tech 'Ears' Listen for Shots
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... homed in on its source. Within moments, a police car, its siren wailing, was racing to the scene, in the heart of Uniondale. A second shot went off. Four men were arrested as they tried to speed away. The officers also found two guns, both illegal, ... Comment?
... its Energy-from-Waste facility at the Marriott Long Island Hotel and Conference Center, 101 James Doolittle Blvd., Uniondale. Also Saturday, Nov. 21 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Call 683-5400 for information. Saturday, November 21 CRT Rummage Sale ... Comment?
... Following the return of her husband from the Navy after WWII and the birth of their third child, they moved to Uniondale, where she worked in retail for Franklin Shops in Hempstead. When the family moved to Massapequa Park in 1954, she became ... Comment?
After cemetery mix-up, new management?
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The Greenfield Cemetery in Uniondale on Thursday. In light of three burial mix-ups at the town's cemetery, Hempstead officials are taking a second look at proposals it rejected in 2006 to hire a private company to manage Greenfield. Comment?
After mix-ups, Hempstead eyes new cemetery management
... efficiency, according to town officials. And residents were upset at the possibility that the prices at the Uniondale cemetery would go up. "The community complained because the cost of the plots would have gone straight through the roof," said ... Comment?
Uniondale memorial honors fallen Nassau firefighters
The Nassau County Firefighters Museum in Uniondale revealed an interactive memorial honoring 138 Nassau firefighters killed in the line of duty, including 23 who perished on Sept. Comment?
Reforms after NY 'wrong grave' errors
The Town of Hempstead said Wednesday that an official at Greenfield Cemetery in Uniondale has been suspended and will be reassigned. Comment?
Reforms Made after Long Island 'Wrong Grave' Errors
... coffins in the wrong grave sites. The Town of Hempstead said Wednesday that an official at Greenfield Cemetery in Uniondale has been suspended and will be reassigned. It said he didn't notify next of kin before recently having a body moved out of ... Comment?
Cemetery worker suspended for blunder
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At Nicole Pailiere's request a man digs in her son Mallory Pailiere's grave while the body that was mistakenly buried in her son's site is placed into the correct grave site at Greenfield Cemetery in Uniondale on Thursday. Comment?
Hempstead worker suspended for exhumation order
charge of Greenfield Cemetery in Uniondale has been suspended and will be reassigned for giving the order to exhume the body of a Freeport man who had been buried in the wrong grave - without notifying the man's family, said the town spokesman. Also ... Comment?
Memorial honors Nassau firefighters killed on duty
At 11 a.m. Thursday, the Nassau County Firefighters Museum in Uniondale is set to reveal a $160,000 interactive memorial honoring Nassau firefighters killed in the line of duty. Comment?
Fire In The Belly Of The Beast
... and illegal rentals are, indeed, the recipe for disaster. - - - From Newsday : Hofstra students escape blaze in Uniondale house by EDEN LAIKIN AND LAURA RIVERA / eden.laikin@newsday.com , laura.rivera@newsday.com A fire in a Uniondale house occupied ... Comment?
... for 27 years, before starting a second career as an electronic technician. Jerry and Rose raised their family in Uniondale, N.Y. He was an active member of St. Martha's parish, an usher and a Knight of Columbus. He and his wife retired to Greensboro ... Comment?
Hofstra students escape house fire
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Before a fire broke out, nine Hofstra University students lived in this Uniondale house's basement off-campus. where A fire in a Uniondale house occupied by several Hofstra University students prompted the Town of Hempstead to issue three summonses to the landlord for violations involving illegal use of a single-family house. Comment?
Police: Man asleep in car on Southern State was DWI
Saul Thelemaque, 35, of Uniondale, was charged with DWI after he was found by police, asleep in his car, stopped partly on the Southern State in Baldwin, police said. Comment?