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https://youtu.be/Q79SV0ebnu8 Long-simmering tensions at Midwood’s P.S. 193 boiled over Wednesday when the principal had a parent arrested for speaking up about his child not being allowed to use the bathroom. In a video posted to YouTube, parents can be heard saying “this is wrong” and
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Seven more people have been arrested in connection to a city-wide fraud that involved ripping off scores of heating oil customers, including Edward R. Murrow and James Madison high school, prosecutors announced Wednesday. “The defendants are charged with running a scheme to systematically steal heating oil from a Brooklyn terminal
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Henry Kurzawa, Kymoy Phillip, and Dubar Smalls (front) with NYRR CEO/President Michael Capiraso and NYRR President of Events Peter Ciaccia. (Photo courtesy of NYRR.)Congratulations are in order for the pre-teen winners of the inaugural New York Road Runners (NYRR) Young Runners 800 Meter Finals at the 2016 Millrose
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Henry Kurzawa, Kymoy Phillip, and Dubar Smalls (front) with NYRR CEO/President Michael Capiraso and NYRR President of Events Peter Ciaccia. (Photo courtesy of NYRR.)Congratulations are in order for the pre-teen winners of the inaugural New York Road Runners (NYRR) Young Runners 800 Meter Finals at the 2016 Millrose
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Kymoy Phillips and Rosie Coats, both 11, have the fastest qualifying times among the NYRR Young Runners. (Photo by NYRR.)We are all inspired by our heroes, but stories have nothing on actually meeting — and working alongside — them. That’s what 20 young runners age 12 and under got to
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Courtesy Matthew Bowden [http://www.freeimages.com/photo/another-brick-1510095] BY AMY RODRIGUEZ Over dinner, back before we had kids, a friend told me about a man who spent his entire career studying sea turtles. The group of us laughed, asking how a person could spend an entire career studying one
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In 1885 the YMCA helped to invent summer camp to provide children with positive and fun experiences that build confidence and new friendships. Photo courtesy of Prospect Park YMCAThe centerpiece of YMCA camps are activities that excite and engage your child, giving them a summer filled with fun and adventure.
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Photo courtesy of FasTracKids Owner Franco Verdino has long kept an eye on preschool learning centers in Park Slope. Opening in 2012, his Park Slope FasTracKids location was one of the first enrichment learning centers in the area. Verdino just launched a new website promoting the preschool program at his
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A classroom at the Warbasse Nursery School. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)For more than 46 years the Warbasse Nursery School [http://www.warbassenurseryschool.com/] in Coney Island has provided early childhood education for children in southern Brooklyn. Now, the program is in danger of disappearing after the lease was
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A classroom at the Warbasse Nursery School. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)For more than 46 years the Warbasse Nursery School [http://www.warbassenurseryschool.com/] in Coney Island has provided early childhood education for children in southern Brooklyn. Now, the program is in danger of disappearing after the lease was
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James Madison High School students and teachers celebrate creating the borough’s longest chain of plastic bags. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)James Madison High students wrapped their school in plastic Tuesday — creating Brooklyn’s longest recorded chain of plastic bags — to raise awareness about the dangers of unsustainable environmental
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Some great news: the Grace Agard Harewood Senior Center and Young Minds Day Care are officially safe from being evicted from their building at 966-972 Fulton Street. A new lease has been signed, although as of this posting, we currently don’t know the terms of the lease or how