Labor Day: Last-minute campsites at California State Parks - Los Angeles Times (blog)

Labor Day: Last-minute campsites at California State Parks
Los Angeles Times (blog)
Morro Strand State Beach: This on-the-beach campsite in Morro Bay (this isn't Morro Bay State Park, which is nearby) wedges about 50-plus sites into close ...

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Crowds Return to the Hamptons After Earl Misses NY - NBC New York

Crowds Return to the Hamptons After Earl Misses NY
NBC New York
And while beaches reopened along the coast, flooding closed a section of Jones Beach State Park and officials kept body-boarders out of the water at Robert ...

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Spare Times - New York Times

Spare Times
New York Times
JOHN DALY ONE-MILE OCEAN SWIM, in honor of a former police officer, firefighter and lifeguard, on Sunday off National Boulevard, Long Beach. ...

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Earl Weakens, Claims Victim - Wall Street Journal

Earl Weakens, Claims Victim
Wall Street Journal
The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation prohibited swimming on Friday at Robert Moses State Park, Jones Beach and Montauk's ...

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Southern California animal lovers' calendar: Weekend of Aug. 21-22 and beyond - Los Angeles Times (blog)

Southern California animal lovers' calendar: Weekend of Aug. 21-22 and beyond
Los Angeles Times (blog)
25, I Love Dogs, Inc. hosts its monthly "Mojitos and Mutts" happy-hour gathering at Long Beach's pet-friendly Hotel Maya from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm Eat, drink, ...

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Skate park draws critics - Long Beach Press-Telegram

Skate park draws critics
Long Beach Press-Telegram
Former City Councilman Michael Donelon, who founded the Long Beach Skate Park Program in 1995, said that from 2003 to 2008 crime has dropped in the ...

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This Day In History

Peter the Great: the Russian czar levied a tax on beards (1698)

Quote of the day

"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers."

by Robert Green Ingersoll