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Beginnings: A small kettle pond fed by a freshwater spring at the edge of the Hempstead Plains was the basis of Plainview's origins. The pond became a holy site for Indians, who valued rare sources of fresh water. They named the pond Moscopas, meaning ``hole of dirt and water,'' and the hill Manetto, a word for ``god.'' Hempstead settler Robert Williams purchased land west of Moscopas from the Matinecocks in 1648. The major European land purchase, however, was in 1695, when Thomas Powell's Bethpage Purchase extended north to Moscopas. A tiny farming community formed near the pond, taking the name Manetto Hill.
Photo: Plainview Old Bethpage Community Park on Washington Ave. in Plainvie...
Photo: Plainview Old Bethpage Community Park on Washington Ave. in Plainvie...
Beginnings: A small kettle pond fed by a freshwater spring at the edge of the Hempstead Plains was the basis of Plainview's origins. The pond became a holy site for Indians, who valued rare sources of fresh water. They named the pond Moscopas, meaning ``hole of dirt and water,'' and the hill Manetto, a word for ``god.'' Hempstead settler Robert Williams purchased land west of Moscopas from the Matinecocks in 1648. The major European land purchase, however, was in 1695, when Thomas Powell's Bethpage Purchase extended north to Moscopas. A tiny farming community formed near the pond, taking the name Manetto Hill.
Photo: Plainview Old Bethpage Community Park on Washington Ave. in Plainview. (Newsday / John Keating)
Photo: Plainview Old Bethpage Community Park on Washington Ave. in Plainview. (Newsday / John Keating)
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Dating in an age of multiple divorces
With divorce rates in the U.S. consistently reported at 30 to 50 percent, odds are pretty good that anyone on the dating scene is dancing, dining and moviegoing with someone who has been divorced, and often more than once. Relationship experts don't...
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Rage In Oceanside As Power-Less Residents Attack Politicians
pix11.com | @murphypixThey cursed and they yelled outside a public school in Oceanside on Friday. About 700 residents of this town in southern Nassau County faced off against their local, elected officials, including the Town Supervisor, enraged that they 're still without...Tags: Nassau County, Carolyn McCarthy, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Oceanside (Hempstead, New York), Barack Obama
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Crime On The Rise In Nassau County: Report
pix11.com | @lifeofareporterIf you live in Nassau County, you are more likely now than you were this time last year to be burglarized. Recently released crime statistics show burglaries are up countywide. "This might be a blib," said East Meadow resident James Pollack. According...Tags: Nassau County, Bethpage, Crime, Law and Justice, Jericho, New York City Police Department
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On Theater: Beliefs clash in SCR's 'World' premiere
Those who believe in science and those whose lives are ruled by faith are, by definition, worlds apart in their concept of what is commonly known as the creation. For one camp to sway the other, either by logic or by religious conversion, is virtually...Tags: Science, Biology
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Creationism: 'Gobbledy gook' or fact?
Plainview, Kan., exists in Catherine Trieschmann's imagination.
But the playwright is no stranger to the actual fertile flatlands of the Great Plains, the threat of tornadoes that hangs above the American heartland's sky and its charged social issues....Tags: Science, Washington, DC, Biology, Brooklyn (New York City), FEMA
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A list of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack victims
A list of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack victims from data compiled by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. The overall death toll from the attacks stands at 2,977 -- including 2,753 killed as a result of the attacks at the World Trade Center, 184...Tags: Australia, Barbaro, Bayside (Queens, New York), Armed Forces, WPIX
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On Theater: New theater season off and running
No sooner does September check in than local stage productions flood in. The honor of kicking off the 2011-12 season goes to the Costa Mesa Playhouse. This weekend it revives Noel Coward's ghostly comedy "Blithe Spirit." That's the antique chuckler about...Tags: Justice System, Music Theater, Brighton Beach, Shrek (fictional character), To Kill a Mockingbird (movie)
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Wheelchair-Bound 8-Year-Old Found Dead On LI
wpix.comPolice are looking into what they believe is a murder-attempted suicide involving a disabled, eight-year-old girl and her 30-year-old mother. Saturday was suppose to be a great day for little Julie Cirella, who - despite being confined to a wheelchair...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Hospitals and Clinics, Health, Suicide, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
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Dozens Of Animals Killed In LI Veterinary Fire
wpix.comDozens of animals died Sunday morning after a fire ripped through a Plainview veterinary clinic. According to Nassau County fire officials, at least two dogs, several birds and one rabbit died in the fire that broke out just before 8 a.m. at the Old...Tags: Animals, Nassau County, Hospitals and Clinics, Health, Disasters and Accidents
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Husband Admits to Strangling Wife, Covering Up His Tracks
wpix.comA Long Island man -- who staged an elaborate scam to make it seem as though his wife had been carjacked -- pleaded guilty Thursday to strangling her to death inside their Bethpage apartment before dumping her body in a wooded area off the Long Island...Tags: Justice System, Death, Long Island, WPIX, Nassau County
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Suffolk Cop Car Struck By Alleged Drunk Driver
wpix.comA Suffolk County Highway Patrol Officer is lucky to be alive after being hit by a suspected drunk driver. The man who hit him remains in critical condition and will most likely face criminal charges. The rear of the Suffolk Highway police cruiser was...Tags: Long Island Expressway, Vehicles, Health, Hospitals and Clinics, Road Transportation
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"Bishop" Arrested on Sex Charges
A man from Massapequa who calls himself a "bishop" in the traditional Roman Catholic Church," but who has no religious affiliation, was charged with performing a sexual act on a minor.
According to Nassau County police, Dennis McCormack, 41, who...Tags: Roman Catholicism, Nassau County, Massapequa, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), American Legion
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