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A score of history buffs and just-plain-interested individuals were on hand last week at Price Fashions when a plaque was installed at its 1412 Rockaway Parkway location designating it a local landmark. More ... A fire last week in a house at 1446 East 98 Street, near Avenue M was determined suspicious and is currently being investigated by fire marshals, according to FDNY authorities. More ... Local politicians, including Assemblyman Frank Seddio, City Councilman Lew Fidler, Community Board 18 district manager Dorothy Turano and Community Board 5 Chairman Earl Williams, were present at the South Canarsie Civic Association More ... Advertising deadlines for our next issue, which will be on newsstands Wednesday because of Thanksgiving, are earlier than normal. Display ads are due no later than 5:00 p.m. Monday; Classified ads must be submitted and paid for by Noon, Tuesday. More ... Canarsie High School recently held its annual College and Career Fair. Approximately eighty colleges and universities, scholarship organizations, branches of the United States Military and vocational training institutes, sent representatives to meet with students and their parents. More ... I realize that there are educational standards for subject areas such Eng-lish Language Arts and Math, but are there educational standards for technology? More ... Borough President Marty Markowitz recently joined other Brooklyn elected and police officials, several community leaders and concerned citizens to discuss the latest incidents of hatred, including the spraying of swa-stikas and the slashing of car tires in several Brooklyn neighborhoods. More ... A group of friends who grew up in East New York and have maintained contact for the last 40 years gathered for a reunion, organized by Steve Halfon, last Saturday night at a Brooklyn restaurant. More ... The Salvation Army of Greater New York will be serving more than 8,000 Thanksgiving dinners this year to needy men, women and children throughout New York City More ... Georgetown residents were in an uproar over lack of parking and parking tickets they received on Bergen Avenue, they said at a Georgetown Ci-vic Association meeting on Nov. 12 at Temple Hillel of Flatlands. More ... This Saturday, the 40th Anniver-sary of the assassination of Presi-dent John F. Kennedy will be me-morialized in a unique day-long pub-lic reading of the late Jim Bishop More ... Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Lionel K. White, a 2000 graduate of Nazareth Regional High School, recently returned from an eight-month deployment embarked onboard the USS Iwo Jima, while assigned to the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), based in Camp Lejeune, N.C. More ... The resurgence of great college basketball at the "Mecca," Madison Square Garden, continues during the 2003-2004 season. Tickets for all college basketball games (except the Coaches vs. More ... No prediction involving the Ravens is safe, because no team is so predictably one-dimensional (all run, no pass), but they More ... A week off to rest his ailing ankle apparently worked wonders for Canarsie High School junior running back Elijah Fleming, who rushed for three rushing touchdowns Saturday to spark a 27-6 PSAL quarterfinal win over Sheepshead Bay. More ... On November 19, 1620, the Plymouth Pilgrims, aboard the Mayflower, reached Cape Cod and explored the coast... November 18, 1776, the Hessians captured Fort Lee, N.J. More ... Note: This column is addressed to women, especially divorced women, because 99 percent of the benefits we pay to spouses of retired and deceased workers go to women. More ... Getting along with the boss is more important than pay or benefits when it comes to happiness at work, a new survey suggests. Forty-three percent of executives polled said employee job satisfaction is most impacted by one More ... Uncle Sam likes marriage. "How can he say that?" You might ask. I would reply, "Just look at our tax code." Married couples enjoy lower income tax rates (except in the situations where there is one high earner and one low earner). More ... |
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