Sentences with phrase «nearby island communities»

DEADLY DISASTER The quake that ruptured off the coast of Sumatra on December 26, 2004, was one of the deadliest earthquakes in history, mostly because it set off an enormous tsunami that destroyed nearby island communities.

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At Nassau County's other major development project, the Hub in Uniondale, the LIA is calling for a rapid bus service to the Long Island Rail Road stations in Hempstead Village and Mineola, and for three pedestrian bridges to nearby Hofstra University, Nassau Community College and the RXR Plaza offices.

For the past six months, Mr. Cryder has given numerous presentations like the one in East Marion to communities in nearby Rhode Island and Connecticut.

USC's Andrea Hricko, a community outreach director who organized Birnbaum's tour, said about 500 trucks an hour rumble down the Terminal Island Freeway past the Hudson school, and close to Cabrillo High School nearby.

From the ARIA website: «The Association of Rhode Island Authors (ARIA) is a non-profit organization of local, published writers of both fiction and non-fiction committed to raising awareness of the outstanding written works crafted by writers in Rhode Island and other nearby communities.»

Last summer, we camped in Salibungot Beach in Jomalig, Quezon Province, a 10 - hour land and boat ride from Manila to give school supplies, groceries, medicines and other items to a community in a nearby island.

Spend time with an Afro - Brazilian community outside of Parati, and opt to cruise to nearby islands.

Located in Napili Plaza, Island Sotheby's International Realty's West Maui office serves the nearby resort and residential communities of Kapalua, Napili, Kahana, Mahinahina, Honokowai, Lahaina, Launiupoko, and Olowalu.

There are island trip excursions for those who would like a peek into the laidback rural communities of the inhabited islands nearby.

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This list is derived from a submission by the Croker Island community opposing the establishment of a nearby Marine Park, quoted in Yarmirr v Northern Territory (1998) 82 FCR 533, p579.

Community input has also been critical to a $ 100 million TOD in Huntington, N.Y., on Long Island, currently in the permitting and environmental review stage, by Renaissance Downtowns, a developer based in nearby Plainview, N.Y..