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Speaker Keeps Promise; Presents $25,000 To Man For Turning In Statue-Buster
     City Council Speaker Peter F. Vallone followed through on a promise made last year in awarding a check worth $25,000 to Bryant Hamilton for providing information leading to an arrest and conviction of a man found guilty of vandalizing several religious statues in Queens and Brooklyn, including the d...
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P.S. 233 Youngsters Bowing To Classical Music
     As staff and students at Community School District 18’s Public School 233 travel throughout the school building, the sound of classical music can often be heard. Fifty of the school’s second graders are learning to play the violin as part of a grant awarded to the district by the Samuel Rubin Founda...
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Breukelen Residents Off The Hook (Almost) in Community Service Dispute
By Charles Rogers
     Some tenants at the Breukelen Houses project were especially pleased when it was announced last week that a law that would require some of them to perform community service or face eviction had been temporarily tabled.
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