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25 Famous People You Didn’t Know Were From Corona, Queens
Featured photograph: Tdorante10 / Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped and resized from the original photograph. On a residential block of 107th Street in Corona, Queens, stands the house where Louis Armstrong lived for nearly three decades. A short distance away, Dizzy Gillespie maintained a home with a basement rehearsal space. Several other jazz musicians settled in the neighborhood, including Cannonball and Nat Adderley, Jimmy Heath, and Clark Terry. The concentration of musical talent was extraordinary, but it was only one part of Corona’s story.
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A social adult day care program director pleaded guilty Nov. 9 in a $127 million kickback scheme that billed Medicare and Medicaid for about a decade
A program director at two Queens adult day care centers pleaded guilty Monday, Nov. 9, to a conspiracy that the Justice Department says took about $127 million from Medicare and New York State Medicaid. Daniel Lee, 57, of Flushing, admitted to conspiracy to commit health care fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering, according to... The post A social adult day care program director pleaded guilty Nov. 9 in a $127 million kickback scheme that billed Medicare and Medicaid for about a decade appeared first on The Financial Wire .
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Great Neck Estates Board of Trustees recruits resident at meeting to help restart popular summer camp
The Great Neck Estates Board of Trustees’ recent meeting started off with a few routine agenda items before boiling down to a single unexpected highlight of the night: the recruitment of attendee Jayson Rokhsar, a 31-year-old lifelong resident and father of two toddlers, to potentially help restart the village’s once-popular summer day camp.
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Remembering David Bernacchi: A Life Devoted to Helping Others
For David Bernacchi, founder of Pets4Luv, helping others was never about recognition or praise; it was simply who he was. Whether rescuing an abandoned animal or lending a hand to someone in need, Bernacchi always put others first. His sudden passing in late October has left a void in the animal rescue community and in the lives of those who knew him.
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Lido Beach birds traveled up to 68 miles for food, tracking project finds
A shortage of fish in local waters may have sent birds nesting at Lido Beach on lengthy searches for food this summer, according to Audubon New York. Researchers fitted 20 black skimmers with GPS transmitters and recorded journeys as far as 68 miles to New Jersey’s Gateway National Recreation Area.