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Nassau County Hometown Honoring World Champion Wrestler Nassau County Hometown Honoring World Champion Wrestler
Nassau County Hometown Honoring World Champion Wrestler This might make him even more insufferable. Maxwell Jacob Friedman, the All Elite Wrestling World Champion and one of the biggest bad guys in professional wrestling, is being honored in his Nassau County hometown on Monday, April 3. The Town of Oyster Bay is presenting the wrestler, also known as MJF, with the key to the city and proclaiming April 3 as Maxwell Jacob Friedman Day, ahead of AEW running the UBS Arena on Wednesday, April 5. Friedman is a 2014 graduate of Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School, where he played football.  Since joining AEW in 2019, Friedman has…

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by Sam Barron
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These Long Island High School Seniors Named Regeneron Scholars These Long Island High School Seniors Named Regeneron Scholars
These Long Island High School Seniors Named Regeneron Scholars Thirty-eight high school seniors on Long Island are among the top 300 scholars in the Regeneron Science Talent Search 2023, regarded as the nation’s oldest and most prestigious scholastic science and math competition, the Society for Science announced on Tuesday, Jan. 10.The 300 will be awarded $2,000 each and their schools will be awarded $2,000 for each enrolled scholar. The Regeneron Science Talent Search scholars were selected from 1,949 applications from 627 high schools across 48 states, Washington, DC, Puerto Rico, and four other countries.  The following Long Island students we…

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by Joe Lombardi
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COVID-19: New High School On Long Island Forced To Close Due To Virus Exposure COVID-19: New High School On Long Island Forced To Close Due To Virus Exposure
Covid-19: New High School On Long Island Forced To Close Due To Virus Exposure A staff member at one of Long Island’s most highly acclaimed high schools was exposed to COVID-19 and forced the building to be temporarily closed. Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School was closed on Thursday, Sept. 24 to allow the school to contact trace and disinfect the building after a staffer tested positive. Related story - Three Long Island High Schools Earn Blue Ribbon Status Schools Superintendent Mary O’Meara said that the district was informed of the positive test late on Wednesday, Sept. 23, and contact tracing has begun.  The infected staffer will not be per…

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by Zak Failla