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Fantasy in the Sand: LIVA Beach Volleyball Party Booming on Long Island (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - OAK BEACH, N.Y.----The Long Island Volleyball Association is expanding its Adult beach volleyball leagues and party on the beach with the opening of its second professional beach volleyball facility on Long Island located at Robert Moses State Park, Suffolk County .

Manhattan-Style Condos Move Into Long Island City (Multi-Housing News) - MAY 01, 2006 -- A six-story residential building nearing completion is causing a stir in Long Island City, N.Y. Part of the long-anticipated renewal of the Hunters Point Section, its amenities and understated luxury are sure to stand out in this gritty neighborhood of two-family houses, railroad flats and unfinished loft space.

Susan Sullivan, Talia Shire Will Spar in 'Agnes of God' Benefit on Long Island (Playbill via Yahoo! News) - Hofstra University alumna Susan Sullivan will be joined by Talia Shire and Hofstra undergraduate Missy Dowse in a benefit reading of John Pielmeier's Agnes of God, 8 PM March 24.

Albany real estate company relocates to Green Island (BizJournals) - Coldwell Banker Prime Properties has moved from Albany, N.Y., into a new, much larger corporate headquarters in Green Island, overlooking the Hudson River.

Congressman from Whidbey Island dies (Whidbey News-Times) - Whidbey Island’s most successful and quixotic politician died Thursday at an Alzheimer’s care center in Oak Harbor.

Island may be headed for cleanup (Detroit News) - WYANDOTTE -- Named for prairie lands that once predominated, Grassy Island has become has been reduced to a toxic dump in the middle of the Detroit River whose only visitors are boaters in need of a bathroom break.

Taxi driver marvels he's alive (Newsday) - Propped up in his hospital bed with head lacerations, bruised ribs and thighs, with both his eyes swollen nearly shut, taxi driver Victor Frank said Monday he didn't remember much about the events of Saturday morning on an icy Long Island Expressway overpass.

JCPS superintendent finalist drops out (Louisville Courier-Journal) - A Long Island superintendent who was one of two finalists to lead Jefferson County Public Schools asked that his name be removed for personal reasons.

They're in their 80s, but they won't stop running (Newsday) - That the Long Island running community's four elder statesmen, all in their 80s, mostly walked during their race yesterday didn't seem to matter much to the younger runners who gathered at the finish line to congratulate them.

Naturally, It's Good (Lowell Sun) - BILLERICA -- Nobuko Webb's mother used to tell her that people must have the ocean and mountains nearby in order to live a long life. Webb had both while growing up on the volcanic island of Shuri in Okinawa, Japan.