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Carl MacGowan
I cover the Town of Smithtown and its 115,000 residents. My colleague Emi Endo and I are regulars at town board meetings, and we stay in contact with town and community leaders. I am interested in town politics, development issues and the ongoing concerns about traffic and pedestrian safety in downtown Smithtown. As a reporter, I’m always interested in how communities change and how residents deal with that change. Write or call and share what you know.
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631-843-3687Smithtown school board president Gladys Waldron sworn in
Photo credit: Erin Geismar
Smithtown school board president Gladys Waldron has been sworn in for her third one-year term.
Waldron, a board member for 36 years, and vice president Theresa Knox were unanimously re-elected at a July 2 board meeting.
Knox, who was re-elected to the board in May, was sworn in at the July 2 meeting. Trustee Louis Liguori, who also won re-election in May, will be sworn in at a future...
Read more »Upcoming community events in Smithtown, East End
Summer events for middle-school youth The Smithtown Youth Bureau is offering a pool party and classes on leadership and effective parenting.
The bureau’s annual “Safe Summer Nights” program plans to hold its first pool party at 6 p.m. on July 15, at the Smithtown Landing Country Club, and will have a scavenger hunt at 6 p.m. on July 30 at Hoyt Farm in Commack.
The free programs are open...
Read more »School nurse, teacher and students honored for saving teacher having heart attack
Photo credit: Erin Geismar, 2012
An elementary school nurse, an art teacher and students have been honored by the Smithtown Board of Education for coming to the aid of a stricken teacher in May.
At a school board meeting last week, nurse Julie Murphy and art teacher Kathy Martin received plaques for saving Stephen Jackowski when he suffered a heart attack while playing kickball with his fifth-grade class at Mount Pleasant...
Read more »Smithtown to get more than $6M in FEMA reimbursements
Photo credit: Heather Walsh
The Town of Smithtown will receive more than $6 million in federal reimbursements for superstorm Sandy cleanup costs.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has agreed to pay Smithtown $6.23 million, which will cover most of the town’s costs for collecting, removing and disposing debris left on town roads by the Oct. 29 storm, New York’s Democratic Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand...
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