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Reggae beats and tie dye bring younger audience to Vanderbilt Museum
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As the sun beat down, Luana Halili, 33, of North Bellmore, rocked steadily to the calypso beat of the reggae tune drifting through the hilly, open lawns of the Vanderbilt Museum.
“It’s a beautiful day, we love each other, we love summer, that’s why we’re here,” Halili said. “We decorate the world; we’re painting, in a way, by dancing.”
On Sunday, the Vanderbilt Museum in Centerport hosted...
Read more »Coming up: Town Focus in Bayville
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Sandy beaches, stunning views of the Long Island Sound, and an amusement park. This is how I will be spending the next week. No, I won’t be cashing in any vacations days, but rather I’ll be working in a place just about 30 minutes from Newsday’s Melville office: Bayville.
The village of Bayville is only 1.5 square miles and it’s almost completely surrounded by water, so as you can imagine...
Read more »Town of Babylon to hold groundbreaking ceremony for Wyandanch Rising
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A groundbreaking ceremony will be held Tuesday for the first phase of development in the Town of Babylon’s Wyandanch revitalization project.
The groundbreaking will start at noon just north of the Long Island Rail Road station, at the site where two apartment buildings will be constructed. The event will feature music and activities as well as speeches from federal, state and local officials.
Master...
Read more »West Shore Road to be closed on eight nights in July
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West Shore Road in Mill Neck, a key North Shore access road being rebuilt after damage from superstorm Sandy, is scheduled to be closed on eight nights this month.
On Tuesday, the entire road is to be closed from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m., Nassau County officials said. The southern third, from Cleft Road to the Long Island Rail Road trestle, is to be closed next Wednesday and Thursday nights, and...
Read more »Parking permits to be enforced at Oceanside LIRR station
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The Town of Hempstead will resume enforcing parking permits at the Oceanside Long Island Rail Road station beginning Aug. 1.
New one-year permits for $3 each are on sale for the period effective Aug. 1 to July 31, 2014. Permits will be enforced in parking lots O6, O7, O8, O10 and O11.
“As a measure to accommodate residents, many of whom lost vehicles to floodwaters during Hurricane Sandy,...
Read more »Despite rain, crowd comes out for Sweet Corn Festival
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Wearing orange rain boots up to her knees, Emma Roner, 2, nibbled on an ear of corn in between sips of fresh lemonade as her mother picked kernels off her cheek. “Emma loves it here,” said Cara Roner, 34, of Greenport. “She loves the sheep, pigs races and ponies. And I can’t get her away from the corn. We both just finished off two ears of corn. It’s so good.” Despite the rain, Roner and her daughter,...
Read more »Kings Park reappoints school board president
The Kings Park School Board has reappointed its president and selected a new vice president for the 2013-2014 school year.
Marie Goldstein was sworn in to serve a fourth term as board president and board member Tom Locascio, who has served on the board for three years, was sworn in for the first time as vice president, at last week’s organizational meeting.
Locascio will replace former...
Read more »Sagamore Hill receives national award
Photo credit: Carl Corry
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site has received the National Park Service’s National Programmatic Accessibility Achievement Award for 2012.
The agency award recognizes a park and its staff for efforts to develop or improve programs and services that exemplify inclusion and universal accessibility.
Sagamore Hill received the award for developing a narrated video tour of Theodore Roosevelt’s...
Read more »Saturday: Literary landmark, street festival
SOUTHAMPTON Windmill to be literary landmark
Long before there was a college on the property, the 300-year-old windmill at what is now Stony Brook Southampton was simply a building on an old estate. And during one summer more than half a century ago, it was rented out as the home to a promising playwright — Tennessee Williams.
Saturday, July 13, the windmill, already a historic landmark,...
Read more »Suffolk library chiefs thank lawmakers for aid
Photo credit: Newsday/Gordon M. Grant
Standing in the new, still-unfinished children’s wing of the East Hampton Public Library, three East End library directors got a chance to thank two state lawmakers for their share of the $724,655 in state library construction grants that went to their districts.
The small libraries in East Hampton, Sag Harbor and Shelter Island are in the middle of expansion projects, and the state grants...
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