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Bill Bleyer
Along with colleague Emily Ngo, I cover Oyster Bay Town, its 16 incorporated villages and the City of Glen Cove. My connection to the town began when I was one year old and my mother bought a summer bungalow in Bayville. I have covered the town on and off for 38 years, first as a part-time reporter for an Oyster Bay weekly newspaper while in college, then as editor of the weekly and periodically in my 31 years at Newsday.
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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 »Oyster Bay household waste, drug collection set
The fourth of eight 2013 Household Hazardous Waste Disposal (S.T.O.P.-Stop Throwing Out Pollutants), electronic waste and drug collection programs for Oyster Bay Town residents is scheduled for Saturday at the Old Bethpage Solid Waste Disposal Complex at 101 Bethpage-Sweet Hollow Rd. in Old Bethpage.
The hours are from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The S.T.O.P. program is now in its 28th year. For...
Read more »Legal challenges over Syosset sites continue
Photo credit: Newsday / Audrey C. Tiernan
A court hearing yesterday on a lawsuit seeking to block a referendum on the Town of Oyster Bay’s planned sale of its public works complex was adjourned until tomorrow.
A restraining order prohibiting the town from moving ahead with the referendum on the $32.5 million sale of the Syosset site remains in effect.
Last month, residents opposed to a mall on the former Cerro Wire site filed...
Read more »Oyster Bay OKs Centre Island Beach South restroom building
Photo credit: JC Cherubini
The Oyster Bay Town Board Tuesday approved construction of a new restroom building at Centre Island Beach South in Bayville.
The board approved a $294,550 contract for Laser Industries of Ridge. The company plans to erect a prefabricated building by the basketball courts and park lot. Construction is scheduled to begin in mid-August and be competed in the fall.
The new facility will...
Read more »Richard Begandy fills vacancy on Massapequa Park village board
Village planning commission member Richard Begandy was appointed last night to fill a vacancy on the village board.
Begandy, 77, who is also commander of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7763 in the village, takes over the unexpired term of Jeffrey Pravato.
Pravato, a trustee since 2002 who had been deputy mayor, was named mayor by the village board last month to replace James Altadonna...
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