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Free Life-Saving Demonstration; Art at Library

Top items to know today in Plainview: Wednesday Aug. 7, 2013.

Some key items to know for Wednesday in and around Plainview:

1. The Manetto Hill Jewish Center is offering a free demonstration Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. on how to recognize and prevent an overdose. Community members can learn how administer the overdose-reversal agent called Naloxone or Narcan. See full story here.

2. Have you seen the art on display at the Plainview Library's "Gallery Hall?" There's some fine work on display. Open today; free.

3.  The Oyster Bay Town Board met Tuesday; we have a report this morning at 9 a.m.

4. We posted a story yesterday about the need for volunteers at the Plainview Fire Department. See that story here.

5. Today's weather: Nice day, chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon Wednesday, high in the upper 70s..

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