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Despite rain, crowd comes out for Sweet Corn Festival
Photo credit: Brittany Wait
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...
Read more »Dix Hills fire department’s $550G training facility OKd
Photo credit: Alessandra Malito
The Dix Hills Fire Department has gotten the green light to proceed with plans to build a $550,000 training facility at its station on Deer Park Road, just south of the Long Island Expressway.
The Huntington Town Board approved the district waivers for variances and site plan review given by the town planning board and zoning board of appeals.
“It’s important for us to expedite procedures...
Read more »Creighton complains about defaced signs in Smithtown
Photo credit: Denise Creighton
Smithtown’s Republican race for supervisor has reached a political low, according to Councilman Robert Creighton, whose four campaign signs were recently defaced.
The word “Crooks” was scrawled in red paint across each of his Kings Park signs, which measure about 4 by 6 feet, said Creighton, who is running against 36-year Supervisor Patrick Vecchio. Smaller, adjacent signs for incumbents Councilman...
Read more »Lanes on state roads to close for repairs
Drivers should expect to see delays the next few weeks in Nassau and Suffolk counties as state officials plan to close several travel lanes on state roadways for pavement repairs.
To avoid busy commuter traffic, the construction is scheduled to take place between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., officials said.
The roads affected by lane closures include: Main Street in Port Jefferson; North Country...
Read more »Lazy Days of Summer event planned in Levittown
The Levittown Community Council will sponsor the 16th annual Lazy Days of Summer event on Saturday.
The free event, an offshoot of Levittown’s 50th anniversary celebration in 1997, will offer games, entertainment and activities. The event will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the East Village Green Park, near the Jerusalem Avenue Pool on Jerusalem Avenue and Meridian Road in Levittown.
The...
Read more »Day 4 of Hempstead clerk misconduct trial
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