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Avenue L Merchants Association Throws Grand Holiday Party For Neighborhood Kids
      Members of the Avenue L Merchants Association took time out from the busy shopping season last Wednesday, December 20, to welcome scores of neighborhood children to a special Holiday Party at which Santa Claus was one of the chief guests.
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Local Elected Officials Differ Over Closing Of High Schools
By Dara Mormile
      Elected officials representing Can-arsie spoke at the recent Community Board 18 meeting at the Kings Plaza Community Room and expressed disappointment that they were not informed about the Department of Education’s decision to close two local schools.
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Eight New Recruits Added To 69th Precinct’s Roster
      As of yesterday, eight new recruits have been assigned to the 69th Pre-cinct, part of the 1,359 officers who graduated from the Police Academy Tuesday. This will bring the total contingent of regular police officers assigned to the local precinct to 139.
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COUNSELING CORNER
Is Hypnosis Right For You?
      When you hear the word hypnosis, it’s probably the show business version that springs to mind – people performing embarrassing actions or experiencing imaginary events, all to entertain an audience. Clinical hypnosis, however, is something else – a valuable and respected tool that tra...
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Four Companies Fight Smoky Junkyard Fire
By Charles Rogers
      A four alarm fire in a junkyard east of Canarsie on December 20, sent community residents fleeing the scene because of heavy, dense smoke, according to authorities at the scene. Canarsie’s Ladder 170, Engine 257 and Battalion 58 were joined by three other fire companies to help put o...
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Canarsie High School Has A Poet—Now Everyone Knows It
By Brittni Kanhai
      Canarsie High School’s student population consists of several academic scholars, as well as students with a variety of talents. One such talent is writing poetry and the secondary school on Rockaway Parkway has more than a few pupils with a gift for poetry.
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Pet Of The Week
      My Name is Nakisa (A686977). After 12 years of being a loyal and beautiful companion, my owner left me at the shelter. I am a healthy spayed senior girl with gorgeous long calico fur. Please make the New Year brighter for an abandoned animal. Adopt at The Animal Care & Control of Brooklyn at ...
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Ring In A Brooklyn New Year
      Brooklyn’s biggest New Year’s Eve party with fireworks at midnight will take place at Grand Army Plaza, sponsored by Borough President Marty Markowitz and KeySpan. Best locations for viewing the fireworks include: anywhere in Grand Army Plaza, inside the Park on the West Drive, and alon...
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An Open Letter From State Senator John Sampson
      Reinvesting in Our Community Recent news reports indicated that: an innocent bystander was fatally shot while another was wounded at the Canarsie-Rockaway Parkway Station; A few weeks later another young man also succumbed to injuries in Brownsville; Public outrage was here in late No...
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