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Nassau to provide help to taxpayers
Nassau County’s Department of Assessment will present a taxpayer assistance outreach program in several communities in the Town of Hempstead.
Equipped with computers linked to the county’s database, department staff will process property tax exemption applications on-site for senior citizens, people on disability, veterans, volunteer firefighters and emergency medical technicians.
The...
Read more »Mount Sinai Fire District getting $470G grant for equipment
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The Mount Sinai Fire District is receiving a $470,585 federal grant for equipment upgrades, according to a group of federal elected officials.
The fire department, which has served both the community and the waters of the Long Island Sound since 1930, will use the funds to update communications equipment to meet federal regulations about narrow band channel transmissions for more efficient...
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 »Southampton OKs hosting veterans services officer
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Southampton has approved hosting a Suffolk County Veterans Services officer at its offices once a week to allow veterans, spouses, dependents and survivors on the East End closer access to assistance.
“I am very pleased that we will be able to provide this arrangement with the assistance of the County in order to ensure veterans and their families can conveniently access the services they...
Read more »Riverhead chief Sean Walter wins leaders’ cardboard boat race
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Riverhead Supervisor Sean Walter, paddling furiously, pulled up to the dock Saturday in his duct-taped silver boat to win the title of King of the Peconic River in his town’s fourth annual cardboard boat race.
Just 14 seconds behind him, Southampton Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst — who won the title from Walter last year — came both up to the dock and down into the Peconic River simultaneously,...
Read more »Miss Wantagh contestants offer volunteer visions
Photo credit: Tara Conry
With the spotlight on her, Shayna Held didn’t hesitate when asked with whom she’d want to be stranded on an island.
“I would want to be stranded on the island with someone who knew how to get off the island, so I could get back to my home to my family and the town of Wantagh,” said Held, 15, a junior at Wantagh High School who went up against six other local teens Monday night in the 57th...
Read more »East Hampton Village appoints a new administrator
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For the first time in 30 years, East Hampton Village administrator Larry Cantwell got to sit in the audience at a village board meeting Monday. And, within moments, he was no longer village administrator.
At its annual reorganization meeting, the village board adopted its salary schedule for 2013-14 and voted to name Rebecca Molinaro as its new village administrator, setting her pay at $95,000...
Read more »Pesticide spraying planned tonight in Suffolk
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The Suffolk County Department of Public Works plans to spray pesticide in several communities tonight, weather permitting, as part of ongoing efforts to control the mosquito population.
Ground spraying will take place in all streets from 6 to 10 p.m. in Davis Park, Ocean Bay Park and Point O’Woods on Fire Island, as well as Cedar Beach Golf Course in Babylon. Ground spraying on all streets...
Read more »Helping End Violence Now moves to Mineola
Helping End Violence Now, a nonprofit group that addresses youth and gang violence on Long Island, has moved its headquarters to a larger building in Mineola.
Founded in 2000, Helping End Violence Now is a coalition of faith-based ministries, law enforcement agencies, school districts, businesses and community organizations. The group’s headquarters moved from a one-room office in Hempstead...
Read more »LI girl's letter leads to Gillibrand speech
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Adriana Rubertone was ecstatic when she learned early last month that she was selected to attend the American Legion’s Empire Girls State convention, a prestigious annual leadership program for young women that is being held this week at SUNY Brockport.
Then, Rubertone, 17, of Glen Head, an incoming senior at North Shore High School in Glen Head, asked organizers about the difference between...
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