Monday, April 9, 2012
Holocaust survivors and veterans will gather at Republic Airport to remember those lost.
Holocaust survivors, veterans, members of the clergy and students will commemorate the liberation of the Nazi death camps on Monday at the American Airpower Museum at Republic Airport. Each day the "5 Things" column offers five essentials about your day in Plainview. We want to engage our audience in the topics, events, and hot-button issues that are important to them. Help us do that by adding your voice. Add it to the calendar or send us a news tip. Post a comment on the news and the issues that matter most to you. On Monday: 1. The event at the Airpower Museum begins at 11:30 and will be preceded by an interfaith prayer service. We'll have a report. 2. Plainview schools are off this week for spring break. 3. Since the kids are home, …
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Plainview Old Bethpage Public Library
999 Old Country Rd, Plainview, NY
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Saturday, November 12, 2011
UPDATE: All week, we'll be compiling an archive of Plainview-area veterans uploaded by our readers or sent directly to Patch. Check out the latest contributions from our readers.
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Saturday, November 12, 2011
On Veterans Day weekend we honor those men and women who served our country in the armed services. Patch just received some great photos from Paul Feller, formerly of Plainview, of his father, Sgt. Sol Feller, a medic with the Army Air Corps during WW II. There's a great shot of Sol and Paul's mom during the war years. We share them here. Another family uploaded great shots of Marine Sgt. John S. Cleary, including one that showed him with his two brothers in uniform.. All this week, we'll continue to compile a photo archive of Plainview area veterans. you can upload themselves to this page (Just click the button below and above.) And, because we know some of you might have difficulty with that, just send them to Patch. We'll take care of …
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Name your favorite WWII plane: Skytrain? Flying Fortress? Corsair?
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Saturday, May 28, 2011
The Bethpage Air Show will roar over Long Island's skies Saturday and Sunday, bringing a grand variety of military war planes into view for thousands on Jones Beach and beyond. It's a great opportunity to learn about the flying machines that turned the tide of WWII and help to forge the future of flight as we know it. Many have ties to Long Island. What's your favorite War Bird, and why? (Need a refresher or a primer? Follow the links for a crash course in WWII aviation and impress your friends on the beach.) Is it the B-17 "Flying Fortress?" The B-25 "Mitchell Bomber?" Or the B-29 "Superfortress." Could it be the Douglas C-47 "Skytrain?" (The famed transport plane of the Airborne divisions landing in Normandy on the D-Day Invasion?) Or is…
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1000 Ocean Pkwy, Wantagh, NY
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Thursday, April 14, 2011
The park on Motor Avenue and the new park land sits on and near a WWII-era Superfund site.
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Thursday, April 14, 2011
The future of Farmingdale's Allen Park, a triangular Long Island parcel of fine playing fields, a supermarket and a Superfund site, became the focus of the Town of Oyster Bay this week. With rumors swirling in the community about its future, members of Farmingdale Aquatics cancelled their Tuesday practice to descend on the board en masse. What resulted was a lively discussion about the various options for the undeveloped portion of the town land, located adjacent to the popular community playground. Bill Manton, head coach of the swim club, argued for the town to build an Olympic-size, indoor pool facility on the undeveloped portion of the town's land. The team has developed many top-notch swimmers over the years from the community, …
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Motor Ave & Heisser Ln, Farmingdale, NY
Allen Park is located at this corner.
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55 Motor Ave, Farmingdale, NY
The site of the former Liberty plant
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Monday, April 11, 2011
An exhibit at The Manetto Hill Jewish Center captures those who disappeared and suffered Nazi atrocities.
Ludmila Lowidtova's bright eyes seem to smile at you across time. She was only 20 when she died at Birkenau at the hands of the Nazis. Zdenka Bergmannova's timeless beauty was captured in black and white. She was in her early 30s when she died at Trawniki, a Nazi forced-labor camp, in 1942. There's a pencil sketch of a distinguished gentleman in a dark thin tie and a drawing of a young woman in a pretty blue blouse. The images will haunt you; They are of regular people living ordinary lives: little kids and young adults, an old man holding an infant, caught up in a world gone mad. One day, the Nazis came and tried to make these people disappear forever. The Nazis failed: In this they were beaten by mere school children and vanquished by …
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Manetto Hill Jewish Center
244 Manetto Hill Rd, Plainview, NY
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Joe Dowd
1:02 pm on Sunday, May 29, 2011
Thanks to E. Trillo: We've added the P-38 to our WWII primer as well as the Flying Tigers references, all with links. more ›