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Tag: sister francis gerard kress

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Sister Francis Kress, Pioneer in Greenpoint Environmental Movement, Has Passed Away

by Geoff CobbJanuary 21, 2019March 3, 2022

Sister Francis Gerard Kress who Greenpointers profiled last year in its series on important local women passed away on January 17th in Brentwood, Long Island. She was 104 years old […]

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Still She Persisted! Sister Francis Gerard Kress: The Fighting Environmentalist Nun

by Geoff CobbApril 3, 2017March 4, 2022

Today almost all the local people know about the massive pollution of Newtown Creek and the oil plume that sits under Greenpoint, but it was not always so. One of […]



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