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blog Long Island Now 8:05 AM Find the cooling center in your area Towns across Long Island announced special measures to help residents deal with the ongoing heat ...
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article Education 7/15/13 BOCES exec and top school advocate steps down Gary Bixhorn, an Eastern Suffolk BOCES executive and one of Long Island's top school advocates, ...
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article Obituaries 7/15/13 Retired firefighter dies of lung disease William Butler, a longtime resident of Kings Park and a firefighter for 33 years, died ...
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blog Long Island Now 7/15/13 Tighter noise laws in effect in Huntington Tighter noise limits are in effect in the town of Huntington. ...
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column Rick Brand 7/13/13 Brand: Value of Suffolk's ShotSpotter system questioned ShotSpotter -- the high-tech system for pinpointing gunfire -- may have missed the mark in ...
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article Obituaries 7/13/13 Newsday photographer Bill Senft dies at 90 Bill Senft, a Newsday photo department legend whose pictures still line the walls of the ...
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blog Long Island Now 7/13/13 Kings Park reappoints board president The Kings Park School Board has reappointed its president and selected a new vice president ...
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blog Long Island Now 7/13/13 Sagamore Hill receives national award Sagamore Hill National Historic Site has received the National Park Service’s National Programmatic Accessibility Achievement ...
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blog 7/13/13 'Zombies' soon to overrun Huntington It happens every Saturday night: people from around the Island head for Huntington Village. ...
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article Towns 7/12/13 Huntington buys Erb Farm for soccer fields After six years, a Dix Hills group has reached its goal -- soccer that will ...
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blog Long Island Now 7/12/13 Saturday: Literary landmark, street festival SOUTHAMPTON Windmill to be literary landmark ...
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column Judy Cartwright 7/12/13 Watchdog: Cops enforce at No Stopping Anytime sign For 20-plus years, there has been a terrible traffic situation in Kings Park near St. ...
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article LI Life 7/12/13 Centenarian: Mary Victoria Coco Mary Victoria Coco was born July 19, 1913, in Manhattan, to Mary and Michael Lospinuso. ...
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article LI Life 7/12/13 Centenarian: Frances Katz Frances Katz was born July 12, 1906, in the Bronx, one of seven children. She ...
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blog Long Island Now 7/12/13 Candidate's signs defaced with word 'crooks' Smithtown’s Republican race for supervisor has reached a political low, according to Councilman Robert Creighton, ...
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blog Feed Me 7/12/13 Bastille Day a la Long Island Long Island may not be the epicenter of dining out French, but there's more than ...
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blog Long Island Now 7/12/13 Lanes on state roads to close for repairs Drivers should expect to see delays the next few weeks in Nassau and Suffolk counties ...
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article Suffolk 7/12/13 Cops: Man flees S. Huntington traffic stop A Huntington Station man was arrested after he fled officers who attempted to initiate a ...
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article Long Island 7/11/13 Cabbie shot by off-duty cop won't testify, lawyer says The unarmed cabdriver shot by an off-duty Nassau cop who had been drinking does not ...
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article Long Island 7/11/13 Suffolk DA raids Looks Great office The Suffolk County district attorney's office on Tuesday removed boxes of company records and computer ...
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article Health 7/11/13 2 LI psychiatric centers to cut beds Sagamore Children's Psychiatric Center in Dix Hills will cut its 57 hospital beds and Pilgrim ...
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article Business 7/11/13 H2M to move HQ to new site in Melville Consulting and design firm H2M announced it will move its headquarters in Melville a few ...
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article Nassau 7/11/13 DA: Bookkeeper stole $866G from firm A Huntington bookkeeper has been indicted on charges that she stole $866,000 over six years ...
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blog Long Island Now 7/11/13 What's on your bucket list? Got a bucket list item that you’re about to cross off? Let us tag along. ...
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article Breaking 7/10/13 Grand jury convened in Huntington Sta. cabdriver shooting The Suffolk County district attorney's office is convening a new grand jury and has served ...
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article Suffolk 7/10/13 Kings Park: No election law violated The Kings Park school board has revealed that they were asked to investigate the superintendent's ...
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article Suffolk 7/10/13 Man, 20, charged in two Commack stabbings A 20-year-old Bay Shore man was arrested and charged with stabbing two men Tuesday night ...
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article Towns 7/10/13 Neighbors petition against $6M complex A proposal to build a $6-million, 56-unit apartment complex for seniors in Bayport has drawn ...
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article Business 7/10/13 Henry Schein sells stake in dental equipment importer Henry Schein Inc. said Wednesday it would take a one-time charge of $11 million to ...
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article Business 7/10/13 Voxx revenue, sales slip as demand slackens Voxx International said Wednesday its first-quarter revenue fell modestly as economic woes in Europe and ...
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article Business 7/10/13 MSC Industrial profit falls after acquisition Melville-based MSC Industrial Direct Co., one of the largest public companies headquartered on Long Island, ...
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article Towns 7/9/13 Hempstead Town asked to streamline plan Community leaders joined developers of a proposed $90 million, 172-unit housing development in Island Park ...
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blog Feed Me 7/9/13 Lobster specials keep on coming This summer it’s hard to swing a cat on Long Island without hitting a lobster ...
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blog Long Island Now 7/9/13 Smithtown school board prez sworn in Smithtown school board president Gladys Waldron has been sworn in for her third one-year term. ...
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blog Long Island Now 7/9/13 Smithtown board variance hearing tonight A public hearing on a Smithtown tree-removal company’s request for zoning variances is scheduled to ...
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blog Long Island Now 7/9/13 School board to reveal investigation info The Kings Park school board is expected to discuss its response to a community member’s ...
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article Business 7/8/13 Newsday publisher to retire at end of year Newsday publisher Fred Groser on Monday announced his retirement, effective Dec. 31. ...
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article Suffolk 7/8/13 Official: Senior housing to wait for hearing Smithtown's town board must wait until an environmental study is completed before it can hold ...
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column Joye Brown 7/8/13 Brown: Safe boating requires education The drowning deaths of three children in Oyster Bay last year rightfully put a spotlight ...
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article Towns 7/8/13 E. Northport's road gets new traffic system Huntington officials formally unveiled Monday a new computerized, coordinated traffic-signal system designed to improve travel ...
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article Technology 7/8/13 LIer test drives Google Glass Basil Puglisi nods his head, and his Google computer specs -- an invention straight out ...
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blog 7/8/13 Art and party inspired by The Sixties When the Huntington-based ”SparkBoom” arts initiative kicked off during the spring earlier this year (April ...
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article Towns 7/7/13 Huntington project aims to build apartments A new smart-growth project is set to take hold in downtown Huntington on heavily trafficked ...
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column Ellis Henican 7/6/13 Henican: Are internships educational or just free labor? Want to be my slave? How 'bout my intern? ...
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article Long Island 7/5/13 Statue dedicated to boating victim defaced A statue in a town park garden dedicated to Oyster Bay boating victim Victoria Gaines ...
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article Corrections 7/5/13 Corrections The Huntington Town Board meets Tuesday at 2 p.m. The time was misstated in a ...
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article Business 7/5/13 Developers aim to revitalize LI downtowns Well-known Uniondale-based developer Scott Rechler, who heads RXR Realty, is teaming up with Renaissance Downtowns, ...
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blog Long Island Now 7/5/13 Upcoming events in Smithtown, East End The Smithtown Youth Bureau is offering a pool party and classes on leadership and effective ...
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blog Feed Me 7/5/13 LI wines to pour at H2O Smithtown dinners H2O Seafood Grill hosts four dinners this month highlighting Long Island wines, starting Wednesday. ...
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article Nassau 7/5/13 Cops: Man drove drunk with kids, ages 3, 14 A Manhattan man faces felony charges of driving drunk under Leandra's Law after troopers pulled ...
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article Long Island 7/4/13 LIers celebrate Fourth from sea to Sound From parades and traditional readings to music, re-enactments, foot races and, of course, the beach, ...
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article Towns 7/4/13 Scouts to help with river cleanup A group of Smithtown Boy Scout troops plan to help a Suffolk County lawmaker Saturday ...
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article Suffolk 7/4/13 Cops: Motorcyclist dies in Hauppauge crash A motorcyclist was killed and his passenger seriously injured in a crash in Hauppauge Thursday ...
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article New York 7/3/13 Informant: Cop killer 'gloated' about crime A jailhouse informant testified at Ronell Wilson's death penalty retrial Wednesday that the convicted double-cop ...
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article Nassau 7/3/13 Firefighter faces arson charge A volunteer firefighter told police he had been drinking heavily and had been goaded on ...
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article Towns 7/3/13 Town could get 2nd chance with lighthouse The Town of North Hempstead and a Huntington nonprofit are considering teaming up to restore ...
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article Business 7/3/13 AG: LI cleaning service owes $87G in back wages State prosecutors have charged the Huntington-based operator of a movie theater cleaning service with underpaying ...
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article Suffolk 7/3/13 LIE service road reopens in Commack The eastbound service road on the Long Island Expressway near Wicks Road in Commack was ...
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blog Feed Me 7/3/13 Friday night jazz at Porto Vivo in Huntington Porto Vivo restaurant in Huntington hosts the Paul Brusger Quartet on Friday for three hours ...
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article Long Island 7/2/13 LIers get NYC sanitation recycling pleas New York City's Department of Sanitation recycles more than 1 million tons of glass, plastic, ...
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article Towns 7/2/13 Jack Abrams to reopen as magnet school Huntington school officials announced plans Tuesday night to reopen the Jack Abrams School in Huntington ...
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article Business 7/2/13 Air Industries buys plane parts maker Decimal Air Industries Group Inc., an aerospace and defense holding company in Bay Shore, is acquiring ...
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article Obituaries 7/2/13 Final farewell for teen killed in Melville crash Family and friends gathered in Massapequa Park yesterday to mourn Carmen Rivera-Gotay who was killed ...
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article Health 7/1/13 Reported illnesses close shellfishing areas Shellfishing in Oyster Bay and Cold Spring harbors has been banned while the state Department ...
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article Long Island 7/1/13 Officials: Body found upstate is ex-LI teacher, sex offender A body found Thursday on a bank of the Hudson River in upstate Dutchess County ...
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article Business 7/1/13 FalconStor Software CEO Jim McNiel resigns FalconStor Software Inc., a Melville data-storage company that has struggled with waning sales and a ...
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article Suffolk 7/1/13 Cops: Driver was DWI in fatal LIE crash A Levittown man was killed when his car was rear-ended on the Long Island Expressway ...
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blog Long Island Now 7/1/13 Smithtown satisfied with FEMA money The Town of Smithtown will receive more than $6 million in federal reimbursements for superstorm ...
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article Suffolk 7/1/13 Grief counselors available as teens are mourned Grief counselors will be available Monday through Wednesday at Huntington High School, after a Class ...
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article Suffolk 7/1/13 Emotions run high at site of crash that killed 2 teens Jennifer Gotay's eyes filled with tears Sunday as she remembered the way her little sister, ...
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article Towns 6/30/13 Officials reject Kings Park development plan Facing a court-imposed deadline, a Kings Park developer last month submitted plans to Smithtown Town ...
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blog Long Island Now 6/30/13 Kings Park schools OK penalty for bullying The Kings Park school board last week unanimously approved changes in its student conduct code, ...
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article Suffolk 6/29/13 Cops: 2 teens killed when brothers' cars collide An 18-year-old driver trying to speed past his older brother's car in Melville early Saturday ...
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article Towns 6/29/13 Mom mourns girl year after boating death Every morning Lisa Gaines wakes up, looks at a pale pink framed photograph of her ...
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blog Long Island Now 6/29/13 Cancer fundraisers slide into gello According to Leukemia and Lymphoma Society campaign coordinator Isai Fuentes, when dealing with enough solid ...
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article Baseball 6/29/13 Northport's Dickson takes trade positively Ian Dickson was rushing to meet his girlfriend, Alicia, when he was given a message ...
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article Nassau 6/29/13 Nassau reports 1 beach still closed All but one of Nassau County's beaches are open on Saturday, according to the county ...
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article LI Life 6/28/13 Wedding: Ashley Joy Stevens, Suleyman Aydogan Stevens-Aydogan ...
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blog Feed Me 6/28/13 Best Buffet in Huntington Station closes Best Buffet, a Huntington Station all-you-can-eat smorgasbord, is closed. Whether this is permanent or temporary ...
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article Breaking 6/28/13 Exec: PD to issue 'appropriate' discipline Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano said Thursday that he expects Police Commissioner Thomas Dale to ...
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article Towns 6/27/13 St. Anthony's installs new solar panel roof Last week, the roof of St. Anthony's High School in South Huntington was blanketed with ...
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blog Feed Me 6/27/13 N'awlins cooking at Storyville in Huntington Finley’s of Greene Street in Huntington, a bar with a restaurant attached, has changed its ...
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article Suffolk 6/27/13 Cops: 5 arrested in egg-throwing Five Garden City men rode around in a car early Thursday, throwing eggs at other ...
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blog Long Island Now 6/27/13 Traffic light OKd for Lowe's intersection The Smithtown Town Board unanimously approved an agreement with Suffolk County last week to install ...
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article Towns 6/26/13 Kings Park school administrators get raises The Kings Park school board has approved raises for 13 district administrators and contract employees. ...
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column Other Columnists 6/26/13 Huntington imposes boating speed limit The Town of Huntington is going to impose a 5-mph boating speed limit for Asharoken's ...
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article Suffolk 6/26/13 Cops: 2 LIers arrested in New Orleans shooting A Kings Park woman reported missing last week and her boyfriend, also from Kings Park, ...
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blog Feed Me 6/26/13 Javier's Cafe - new for breakfast and lunch in Smithtown Javier’s Café is turning out pancakes, omelets, sandwiches and salads in the Smithtown digs that ...
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blog Long Island Now 6/26/13 Lifson eyes Huntington supervisor run Robert Lifson, a former appellate division judge and Huntington Town Republican chairman, is circulating GOP ...
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blog 6/26/13 The ‘Huntington Hoedown’ It seems almost impossible to imagine that only five years ago, there were virtually no ...
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article Suffolk 6/25/13 PD: Motorcyclist killed trying to pass SUV A Melville man on a motorcycle who was speeding in an attempt to pass an ...
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article Towns 6/25/13 Town fights trademarking Montauk beach The Town of East Hampton is formally opposing a Hauppauge-based clothing company's application to trademark ...
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blog Long Island Now 6/25/13 Anti-bullying measures on schools docket The Kings Park school board will hold a public hearing on its revised school code ...
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blog Long Island Now 6/25/13 Supe: OKd gas station location 'hazardous' The Smithtown Town Board approved a zoning change needed to build a gas station and ...
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article Suffolk 6/24/13 Suffolk: Science essay winners Smithtown students recently swept the top three spots in an essay contest coordinated by Brookhaven ...
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article Suffolk 6/24/13 Way to Go: Tiffany Rigole, St. Anthony's H.S. A South Huntington teenager was the top student fundraiser in an annual event that raised ...
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blog Long Island Now 6/24/13 Huntington to weigh higher noise penalty The Huntington Town board will consider changes to its noise ordinance, just in time for ...
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article Obituaries 6/24/13 Former Newsday reporter Warren Berry dies at 79 Warren Berry, a powerhouse writer who covered everything from the New York Stock Exchange to ...
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blog Long Island Now 6/24/13 Valedictorians: Then and now video chat We are hosting a Google+ Hangout with valedictorians from 2003 and 2013. They’ll discuss what ...
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article Suffolk 6/24/13 Cops: Two hurt in Greenlawn break-in Two people were hospitalized with minor injuries after an early morning burglary Monday in Greenlawn, ...
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article Towns 6/23/13 Smithtown mulls hearings on senior housing Smithtown officials are debating whether to hold public hearings on a controversial proposed Kings Park ...
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article Suffolk 6/23/13 Cops: Boy, 6, hit by SUV expected to survive A 6-year-old boy who was struck by a sport utility vehicle and seriously injured as ...
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article Towns 6/23/13 Islip residents complain of 'screaming kids' The 600 or so day campers expected Monday at Hidden Pond Park easily outnumber the ...
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blog Long Island Now 6/23/13 Hearing set for assisted-living home plan A controversial assisted-living facility in Smithtown hamlet will be the subject of a public hearing ...
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blog Long Island Now 6/23/13 Huntington holds low-cost spay/neuter month June is low-cost spay/neuter month in the Town of Huntington. Town board member Mark Cuthbertson ...
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article Suffolk 6/22/13 Cops: SUV hits 3 kids in Huntington Station Three children were injured, one seriously, in a Saturday afternoon crash in Huntington Station, Suffolk ...
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article Breaking 6/22/13 Officer's account of shooting contradicted by internal affairs An off-duty Nassau County police officer unlawfully shot and beat an unarmed cabdriver in Huntington ...
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article Long Island 6/22/13 STEM school to partner with top scientists A new high school focused on science and engineering is teaming up with two Long ...
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column Ellis Henican 6/22/13 Henican: LI losing good jobs that'd keep youth here The numbers aren't cheery, as Marty Cantor charts the departure of Long Island's solid-paycheck jobs: ...
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article Lifestyle 6/22/13 Boatyard exhibit opens July 1 in Port Jeff The nonprofit history group Long Island Traditions opens its "From Shore to Shore: Boat Builders ...
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article Health 6/21/13 Teen was awake for brain tumor operation Blakely Murphy is an energetic teenager who is back playing volleyball -- her passion -- ...
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article LI Life 6/21/13 Winner: Janet Walerstein Janet WalersteinExecutive director ...
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blog Long Island Now 6/21/13 Bellone backs Snair for town supervisor Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone has endorsed fellow Democrat Steve Snair in his campaign for ...
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blog Long Island Now 6/21/13 4 upcoming community programs A gun buy back, a concert series, a climate-change discussion and free senior ID cards ...
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article Long Island 6/21/13 LIPA reorganization bill passes Assembly, Senate The State Assembly and Senate approved Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's bill to reform the Long ...
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article Towns 6/20/13 Northport gets $1.5M grant for sewer plant The Village of Northport has received a $1.5 million state grant to help pay for ...
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article Business 6/20/13 7 Bus to expand LI service July 1 The official launch date of the revamped bus company 7 Bus is now set for ...
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article LI Life 6/20/13 Reunions, June 23: CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL '93. A 20-year reunion is June 29 at Napper Tandy's in Smithtown. ...
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article Long Island 6/20/13 Pol: Tentative deal reached on LIPA overhaul A tentative compromise to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's plan to dramatically overhaul the Long Island ...
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article Restaurants 6/20/13 Taramasalata dip: 3 LI picks What's coral in color, tastes of the sea and is usually spread on pita? ...
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article Nassau 6/19/13 Man who helped Tarantino in fatal robbery gets 6 months The man whose tip about the regular delivery of payrolls to a Muttontown office building ...
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article Business 6/19/13 Credit union to merge with Island Federal CWA Long Island Federal Credit Union will merge with Island Federal Credit Union, officials announced ...
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blog Feed Me 6/19/13 Elvis brownie at Sip Tea Lounge, Huntington The very elegant Sip Tea Lounge in Huntington has let down its hair a bit ...
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article LI Life 6/19/13 Nassau and Suffolk anniversaries, June 23 80thBERTIE AND HERMAN ...
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article Suffolk 6/18/13 Feds: Psychiatrist sold oxycodone scripts A psychiatrist who publicly denounced doctors for selling painkillers for money was arrested Tuesday for ...
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article Obituaries 6/18/13 Melville tax accountant Lawrence Marlin dies Lawrence J. Marlin, a tax accountant, sports enthusiast and family man, died in his home ...
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article Long Island 6/18/13 Lawmakers: Property taxes a major issue in LIPA overhaul ALBANY -- State senators said Tuesday that a single major issue stood in the way ...
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article Obituaries 6/18/13 N. Hempstead pol Jerome Weinstein dies at 89 It was a different time for politics when Jerome Weinstein served the Town of North ...
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article Suffolk 6/18/13 Cops: Postal worker, 53, dies after crash A U.S. postal worker died after his mail truck was rear-ended in Lloyd Harbor and ...
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blog Long Island Now 6/18/13 Town service requests must be formalized The Huntington Town attorney now must use the request-for-proposal process when outside services are necessary, ...
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article Suffolk 6/18/13 Downed wires shut Jericho Tpke. Traffic on Jericho Turnpike in Huntington Station was restored early Tuesday after downed power lines ...
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blog Long Island Now 6/18/13 Town to discuss convenience store site A proposal to build a gas station and convenience store at the intersection of two ...
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article Suffolk 6/17/13 LI man convicted in Home Depot bomb plan It took a federal jury about two hours to convict a Deer Park man of ...
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article Suffolk 6/17/13 Mail carrier injured in crash A mail carrier was injured in a crash that catapulted him through his truck's windshield ...
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article Nassau 6/17/13 Cuomo taps Molloy as MTA Nassau representative Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has chosen the retired chairman of a Melville engineering firm as ...
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article LI Life 6/17/13 Winner: Mary Rice Mary RiceBrokerage manager ...
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article Towns 6/17/13 No Democratic primary in Huntington In the interest of party unity, Democratic leaders said Monday, there will be no primary ...
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article Business 6/17/13 Lifetime Brands names CEO's son as president Daniel T. Siegel, the inventor of a home S'Mores Maker, has been appointed president of ...
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article Health 6/17/13 Pols call for statewide Alzheimer's effort Rep. Steve Israel and state Assemb. Charles Lavine are calling on New York State to ...
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article Business 6/17/13 Urban Outfitters layout 'unique' at Walt Whitman mall Urban Outfitters plans to introduce a one-of-a-kind layout and design in its third Long Island ...
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article LI Life 6/17/13 Centenarian: Molly Feibish Molly Feibish was born on May 15, 1913, to Dora and Kalman Ingwer in Zarzecze, ...
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blog Feed Me 6/17/13 Huntington Social closes Huntington Social appears to have left the Huntington dining scene. The place has been dark ...
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article Suffolk 6/17/13 Cops: Police cruiser hit by DWI driver A Selden woman was driving drunk when she rear-ended an unoccupied Suffolk County police cruiser ...
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article Education 6/16/13 LI school gets former NFLer as gym teacher Wesley Walker stepped onto the playground at a Kings Park elementary school and was met ...
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article Suffolk 6/16/13 Police ID Dix Hills man, 20, killed in LIE crash A Dix Hills man was killed in a one-car crash that closed the eastbound Long ...
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article Towns 6/16/13 Centerport OKs controversial 7-Eleven The Huntington Zoning Board of Appeals has approved an application from 7-Eleven to build a ...
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article Towns 6/16/13 Temp restraining order for recycling firm A state judge has issued a temporary restraining order barring the expansion of a group ...
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column Jessica Damiano 6/16/13 Garden Detective: Poetry contest winners Last month I asked readers to let their creative writing juices flow. The instructions were ...
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blog Long Island Now 6/16/13 Huntington OKs dog walking in more parks On-leash dog walking soon might be allowed in more Huntington Town parks, after the town ...
