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What A Private Ambulance in NYC Can Offer
Dec 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 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 | 20 20 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 | 32 32 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 | 35 35 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 | 35 35 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 | 64 64 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 | 69 69 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 | 69 69 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 | 144 144 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...
This Month in Queens Real Estate: November 2013
Nov 11, 2013 | 4 4 comments | 147 147 recommendations | email to a friend
Queens NY Real Estate Market Update The seasonally adjusted rate of Queens home sales increased again in October and continued to increase when compared to year-ago levels, with October marking the...

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Rigtht on, Carl!
Dear editor: I would like to applaud Carl Paladino for standing up for his young daughter. Carl Palindino was having a shouting match with a reporter for sending people over to his daughter's house...
Oct 05, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 24 24 recommendations | email to a friend
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Checks and balances
Dear Editor: Republican/Conservative Party candidate Harry Wilson for State Comptroller makes sense.  State government has always had members of different political parties holding key statewide of...
Oct 05, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 25 25 recommendations | email to a friend
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Turner needs support, not civic lesson
Dear Editor: I am writing this letter in response to Mr. Seltzer’s “ Bob Turner Needs a Civics Lesson” (Letters, September 16). It seems to me after reading Mr. Seltzer’s letter that he is for free...
Oct 05, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 27 27 recommendations | email to a friend
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Let the mudslinging season begin
Dean Editor: Now that election time is approaching, we see the candidates making personal attacks on their opponents. I really think that they should tell us where they stand on the issues because ...
Sep 28, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 25 25 recommendations | email to a friend
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Anti-Muslim sentiment wrong
Dear Editor: By now, most people should know that the creation of the downtown mosque and Muslim community center near Ground Zero is an example of the separation of state and freedom of religion a...
Sep 28, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 29 29 recommendations | email to a friend
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Tennis stadium sale would ease debt
Dear Editor: Back in August, eyebrows were raised when Forest Hills Gardens Corporation president Mitchell Cohen stood with the Board of the West Side Tennis Club and Cord Meyer when plans to sell ...
Sep 28, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 27 27 recommendations | email to a friend
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New vans service a "ripoff"
Dear Editor: Kew Gardens Hills residents' apparent lack of interest in the Taxi and Limousine Commission's new van service on the route of the former Q74 in Kew Gardens Hills is no surprise.   Loca...
Sep 28, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 27 27 recommendations | email to a friend
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Tennis stadium sale vote postponed
Dear Editor: An informational meeting on the sale of the historic tennis stadium at Forest Hills which was scheduled for September 16 was suddenly cancelled when a tornado whipped through Forest Hi...
Sep 21, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 36 36 recommendations | email to a friend
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In the eye of the storm
Dear Editor: I was coming home from an outing in Rego Park on September 16 around 6 p.m., and just when I walked into my building lobby, I noticed a swirl and the skies turned pitch black. Then I h...
Sep 21, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 40 40 recommendations | email to a friend
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Thanks for help cleaning up
Dear Editor: Last week we all learned what a microburst is and what it can do to our neighborhood. Power went down. Trees fell on houses, cars, and roads. In a time of crisis, many of your neighbor...
Sep 21, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 36 36 recommendations | email to a friend
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Bob Turner needs a civics lesson
Dear Editor: At a Forest Hills Kiwanis Club meeting a couple of months ago, Congressional candidate Bob Turner spoke about how members of the two parties need to do a better job of working together...
Sep 14, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 26 26 recommendations | email to a friend
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Remembering 9/11
Dear Editor: As we are in the process of remembering the events of September 11, 2001 which is now in its ninth anniversary I, like many of my fellow Americans, are in the act of reflecting on that...
Sep 14, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 27 27 recommendations | email to a friend
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I was there on September 11th
Dear Editor: I was there! Yes, on September 11th I lost friends and a neighbor whose young son is a constant reminder of that day- but also, I was there! My office on the Floating Hospital looked r...
Sep 14, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
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Two Sides to the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium Debate
About the West Side Tennis Club’s upcoming vote to sell the stadium land to developer Cord Meyer… Pro by Isobel Kleinman Sirs: I believe that passing the proposal is the best thing members can do. ...
Sep 09, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 28 28 recommendations | email to a friend
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Saujani's attack on Maloney over millstones unfair
EDITOR'S NOTE: The historic Dutch Kills millstones, remnants of a bygone gristmill, have been the subject of intense controversy. The millstones are currently at Queens Plaza, where a major reconst...
Sep 08, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 40 40 recommendations | email to a friend
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Ohio auction features items from Nancy Drew author

FILE-In this Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2001 file photo shows Millie Benson holding up one of the Nancy Drew mystery books in Toledo, Ohio. Benson wrote more than 130 books, including the 1940s Penny Parker mystery series, but is best known for creating Nancy Drew, who inspired and captivated generations of girls. Typewriters and a desk from the home of Benson, who brought a young sleuth named Nancy Drew to life are going up for auction Sunday in Toledo, Ohio. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Typewriters and a desk from the home of an author who brought a young sleuth named Nancy Drew to life are going up for auction.


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Bosnian memories preserved in St. Louis

In this photo made Monday, Oct. 21, 2013, Bakir Avdagic, left, sits down to dinner with his wife, Mirha, top, daughter Selma, 22, and son, Amer, 18, bottom right, at their home in O'Fallon, Mo. The Avdagic family are part of an estimated 60,000 Bosnians who live in the St. Louis metropolitan area, making it the largest such settlement outside the country now known as Bosnia-Herzegovina. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)ST. LOUIS (AP) — Selma Avdagic was only an infant when her Bosnian family fled from Sarajevo to St. Louis two decades ago as war ravaged the former Yugoslavia.


2013-12-07 11:10:16 -0500
China seeking to export apples to US

In this Sept. 16, 2013 photo Sergio Garcia empties a bag of just-picked Golden Delicious apples into a bin at a Valicoff Fruit Company orchard near Wapato, Wash. Golden Delicious and Red Delicious apples are the only varieties of apples which have been shipped to China but even those varieties aren't currently being allowed into because China expressed concerns about apple diseases from Washington that could damage its orchards. (AP Photo/Yakima Herald-Republic, Gordon King)SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — China has its sights set on exporting its fruit to the United States. And that's OK with growers in Washington, who harvest the bulk of America's apple crop.


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