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“TheSpaghetti Set” by Rose Marie Maisto Boyd
Dec 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 21 21 recommendations | email to a friend
It is very refreshing to see that there are still writers who are able to touch us and getting us involved in their imaginary world without offering tales of violence and sex. The Spaghetti Set is ...
What A Private Ambulance in NYC Can Offer
Dec 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 32 32 recommendations | email to a friend
Emergencies are always a tough situation to be in for many reasons. Aside from the anxiety about the thought of a person in pain, there is always the fear for someone’s life. Nowadays, a person act...
Town of Middle Village Christmas Tree Lighting
Dec 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 30 30 recommendations | email to a friend
Middle Village Chamber of Commerce, Middle Village Kiwanis Club and Community United Methodist Church invite you to attend TOWN OF MIDDLE VILLAGE CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING. Join in Christmas Carols, ...
Senior Living & Care... What To Do With So Many Choices? What Does It All Mean?
Dec 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 43 43 recommendations | email to a friend
Author: StefansLawGroup As we age we will find ourselves either making or assisting in complex and important decisions about where we, a family member or even a friend should be living. Changes in ...
Holiday Coat Drive
Dec 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 47 47 recommendations | email to a friend
Holiday Coat Drive   Nov. 18th - Dec. 15th, 2013 Do you have coats that you don't need anymore?  Donate Them! Winter is here and there are people in our community who could use a nice warm coat.  D...
Maspeth Indoor Flea Market
Dec 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 47 47 recommendations | email to a friend
INDOOR FLEA MARKET!!!! Saturday, Dec. 7th  Doors open @ 9AM Indoor flea market featuring gifts for Christmas and more.  Handbags, jewelry, antiques, kids clothes, household items, make-up, fragranc...
Money Saving Winter Roofing Tips- Spot Out Faulty Gutters Yourself
Nov 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 75 75 recommendations | email to a friend
A good roof is perhaps one of the most important investments a homeowner can make. Any good investment requires good maintenance. One of the most crucial factors in upholding a roofing system is th...
St. Margaret's Boy Scout Troop 119
Nov 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 81 81 recommendations | email to a friend
St. Margaret's Boy Scout Troop 119 is almost sixty-nine years old and in the year 2015 we will be celebrating our 70th birthday making us one of the oldest Boy Scout Troops in New York City. Howeve...
Breakfast with St. Nick
Nov 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 80 80 recommendations | email to a friend
St. Stanislaus Kostka Home School Association invites you to attend Breakfast with St. Nick .  Saturday, December 15th  9AM-1PM.  St. Stan's Auditorium, 61-17 Grand Avenue, Maspeth, NY Children - $...
The Penalties for Employment Discrimination
Nov 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 155 155 recommendations | email to a friend
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed another suit for employment discrimination which could end up costing the employer hundreds of thousands of dollars.  The suit file...

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Praise for Dan Halloran
Dear Editor, I am a constituent of Councilman Dan Halloran and I am glad to have an elected official that I can count on taking action. Star Nissan/Toyota has, over the past 10 years, violated all ...
Nov 11, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
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We could take back the MTA
Dear Editor: Actually, eight million New Yorkers already "Own a piece of the MTA" (News Briefs - November 3). In 1953, the old New York City Board of Transportation passed on control of the municip...
Nov 11, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
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Translating the OWS doublespeak
Dear Editor: News reports about Occupy Wall Street and interviews with occupiers are reminiscent of the doublespeak of the Mad Hatter, March Hare, and Dormouse in Alice in Wonderland. “Greed” means...
Nov 04, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 25 25 recommendations | email to a friend
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Kudos on Fall Festival
Dear Editor: I would like to thank the staff and students of Grover Cleveland High School for hosting the Fall Festival on Friday, October 28, for the students and parents of P.S. 153. Everyone who...
Nov 04, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
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Reform the BSA!
Dear Editor: The Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA) is a city agency that hears and rules on land use requests. Many of the cases involve variance requests that allow an applicant to develop a si...
Oct 28, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
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How many more lives will be lost?
Dear Editor: Another week and another child gone. When will it stop? When will we as a society strive to prevent children from taking their own lives? For every child that takes his or her life, th...
Oct 28, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dispatcher wrong on who to tax
Dear Editor: In the October 13th edition, you printed a letter decrying the fact that 46 percent of Americans do not pay federal income tax. A glance at the tax rates shows that no federal income t...
Oct 28, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
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Bad news for newsstands
Dear Editor: How disappointing to learn that so-called liberal and progressive Councilman Daniel Dromm is leading the fight to stop a newsstand from opening up in Jackson Heights at the corner of 7...
Oct 20, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
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On #OccupyWallStreet
Dear Editor: What better place to demand the redistribution of wealth than on Wall Street? When the occupiers were asked, most could not explain their grievances, why they were there, who will dete...
Oct 20, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
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Memories of the Leader/Observer
Dear Editor: I purchased a Leader/Observer route from a classmate at St. Thomas for 15 cents in 1945 at the age of 8. I had 35 customers from 85th Street and Jamaica Avenue to about 98th Street at ...
Oct 20, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
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Need more time to study 'fracking'
Dear Editor: Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” is a process used to extract natural gas from underground shale deposits. The problem with the process is that it uses toxic carcinogenic chemicals...
Oct 14, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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Don't raise taxes, just tax more
Dear Editor: President Barack Obama's proposed tax increases gives a free pass to the 46 percent of Americans who pay no Federal income tax. Increasing taxes on earners is just more redistribution ...
Oct 14, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
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Kudos to NYC emergency crews
Dear Editor: The helicopter crash in the East River, in which unfortunately one person died, was indeed a tragedy. Our police officers and firefighters and the Coast Guard responded immediately, go...
Oct 14, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
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Support your local pharmacy
Dear Editor: The recent closing of the Borders bookstore has me wondering what people would think if they lost the services of their local pharmacists. The possibility is real. The similarities to ...
Oct 07, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
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GOP treatment of soldier a disgrace
Dear Editor: The GOP is rabidly rearing it's ugly head again, all under the guise of preserving the past. Well, at least the past as they see it. The audience at the Republican presidential debate ...
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Egyptian troops kill Sinai militant leader in gunbattle: army
Egyptian troops shot dead an Islamist militant described as a leader of the Sinai group that claimed a failed attempt on the life of the interior minister and the murder of a high-level security official, the military said on Monday. Attacks on soldiers and policemen in the Sinai Peninsula, bordering Israel and the Palestinian Gaza Strip, have become commonplace since the army ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi in July in the face of mass unrest over his rule. The Egyptian army said Ibrahim Abou Eita was killed in an exchange of gunfire with soldiers near the town of Sheikh Zuweid in Sinai and it described him as a leader of the Islamist militant group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis.
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Man who amputated arm arrested on assault charges

FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2010 file photo, Aron Ralston, author and subject of the film "127 Hours," attends the film's premiere at Chelsea Clearview Cinema in New York. Authorities say Ralston, who gained widespread attention when he cut off his forearm to free himself after becoming trapped by a dislodged boulder in a Utah canyon, was arrested Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013 in Denver for domestic violence. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)DENVER (AP) — A man who cut off his forearm to free himself from a dislodged boulder in a Utah canyon was arrested in Denver on allegations of domestic violence.


2013-12-09 11:05:24 -0500
Defendant in UK soldier killing: I love al-Qaida
LONDON (AP) — A man accused of killing an off-duty British soldier in a frenzied knife attack on a London street defended his actions in court Monday, saying he carried out the attack because he is a soldier fighting in the service of God.
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