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YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER VOL. XXXVI
NO. 22
THURSDAY, MAY 30, 2013
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PHOTOS BY STEVE MALECKI
SALUTING SACRIFICE
Howard Beach pays tribute to fallen soldiers PAGE 14 Veterans salute at Howard Beach’s Vietnam Memorial at Walter Wetzel Triangle during Monday’s Memorial Day parade, the first neighborhood parade held after Hurricane Sandy. The parade started in Coleman Square, named for Bernard Coleman, who died in World War I. There Coleman’s relatives, Jim Perry, Grand Marshal Coleman Peppard and his father, Don Peppard, inset, remember their ancestor.
ALL IN Officials want table games in Resorts World PAGE 5
GAS EXPLOSION IN HOWARD BEACH
SIMPLICITY
House erupts days after post-Sandy repairs
Felix Sherman aspires to paint like a child
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