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Legal challenges over Syosset sites continue
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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 »Port Jefferson Station road to be closed during construction
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A road in Port Jefferson Station will be fully closed for months because of construction on routes 347 and 112, according to the state Department of Transportation.
The closure of Rose Lane began yesterday and will last through the fall, according to the DOT. Drivers will be rerouted to nearby parts of 347 and 112 instead.
The road’s closure is necessary for “major reconstruction” of...
Read more »Oyster Bay OKs Centre Island Beach South restroom building
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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 »$29G Amityville Fire Department dinner OKd despite criticism
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Amityville trustees Monday night authorized the fire department to spend up to $29,640 for the annual awards dinner next year at the Venetian Yacht Club.
The dinner includes food and liquor for 260 people at a cost of $114 per person, which some residents at the board meeting criticized as extravagant.
In an interview yesterday, trustee Nick LaLota countered that the amount was less...
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...
Read more »'The Great Gypsy,' Ornell on Hempstead reading list
The Hempstead Public Schools has some unique items on its summer reading list this year: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gypsy,” and authors George Ornell and Emily Bonte, to name a few.
The list, for students pre-K to “twelve grade,” has more than 30 mistakes, including misspellings of authors’ names and book titles.
A call to Hempstead superintendent Susan Johnson was not immediately...
Read more »Dolphin found at Jones Beach dies, official says
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The adult male bottlenose dolphin that washed ashore at Jones Beach Tuesday afternoon died after being picked up by the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation.
At about 1:30 p.m., the foundation dispatched a team to collect the 9-foot, 500-pound dolphin that stranded itself on the beach on the east side of Field 6.
The dolphin was still alive when they got there, according...
Read more »Updates: Day 2 of Mark Bonilla trial
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Read more »Bay Shore High School librarian wins national leadership award
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When Amy Jo Southworth was hired as a librarian at Bay Shore High School in 2009, one of her first courses of action was to increase the number of books students checked out at one time.
She initiated a V.I.P. program at the school to encourage students to read more.
“There were students who really wanted to check out more books, so I wanted to reward those students and encourage other...
Read more »Smithtown school board president Gladys Waldron sworn in
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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...
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