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July 31: Clarke Grad on Capitol Hill, EMFD Drill, Petitions Delivered

A look at what's happening around the East Meadow area.

  1. Adam Sackowitz, 20, of Westbury, a graduate, a junior at Hofstra University and longtime advocate/volunteer of the National Park Service was on Capitol Hill on July 24 to see the introduction of the Long Island Aviation History Act. Click for more on that story.
  2. The recently conducted a drill at an apartment building in Levittown, and Patch was there. Check out for photos of the drill.
  3. Local residents delivered petitions with more than 5,000 signatures to the Town of Hempstead Clerk last week, calling for the dissolution of a local special tax sanitation district. For more on that story, click .
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