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• Gary Bixhorn, BOCES exec and top school advocate, steps down

  step down after 35 years as an administrator at BOCES and in the local districts of Half Hollow Hills and Northport-East Northport. Rather, he said that the move was due largely to personal considerations, and that he had thoroughly enjoyed his career in a 7/15/13 Read more »

• Charity worker Bridget DePasquale, 69, dies

  a social worker at Brooklyn Methodist Hospital until she and her husband, Francis, moved to Long Island in 1970.In East Northport, she became actively involved at St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic parish. In the early 1980s, she chaired the committee that   Read more »

• Huntington officials ask public action on LIPA

  Mark Cuthbertson. Representatives from the town board, Northport Village Board, Asharoken Village Board, Northport-East Northport school district, Northport-East Northport Public Library and Northport Chamber of Commerce joined Petrone and Cuthbertson in making   Read more »

• LI home to a dozen U.S. Army generals

  generals from Long Island into Rossi's Pentagon office, Maj. Gen. Patrick M. Higgins, a special forces soldier from East Meadow , said he is not surprised by the Island's bounty of military leadership."All these gentlemen," he said, nodding at the others,   Read more »

• Huntington offers free drug-testing kits

  Vincent DeMarco , town board members Susan Berland and Mark Mayoka and members of the town's Youth Bureau, the Northport - East Northport school district Drug and Alcohol Task Force, and K.I.D.S. Plus, a child advocacy group. Brookhaven announced a similar   Read more »

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• 2013 East Northport Annual Festival

  Join us at the 2013 East Northport Annual Festival presented by The East Northport Chamber of Commerce. Enjoy live entertainment, exhibits, craft vendors, delicious food, petting zoo, bicycle stunt shows, magic shows, sidewalk sales, street preformers, a   from LongIsland.com Read more »

• East Northport's Larkfield Road gets new traffic system - Newsday

  Huntington officials formally unveiled Monday a new computerized, coordinated traffic-signal system designed to improve travel on Larkfield Road, among the town's busiest venues. "This system is designed to get traffic travel speed up to the speed limit,   from PBS: Blueprint America Read more »

• Call for Public to Join Stop LIPA Tax Effort

  Huntington Supervisor Frank P. Petrone and Councilman Mark Cuthbertson today renewed their call for Town residents to join the fight against the Long Island Power Authority’s move to raise their property taxes, as talks in Albany that could resolve the i   from Village Tattler Read more »

• Huntington Fire Departments and EMS Hold Emergency Drill

  The Huntington Fire Department and Huntington Community First Aid Squad jointly hosted a town-wide emergency MCI (Mass Casualty Incident) drill to supportHuntington Hospital operations on Sunday, June 9. The exercise simulated a car crashing into a build   from Village Tattler Read more »

• Public Action To Prevent LIPA-Related Tax Increase

  On Tuesday, June 11, 2013, at 2 p.m., at the Soundview Boat Ramp, Eaton’s Neck Road (just west of the end of Ocean Avenue), Northport, there will be an announcement of a campaign to enlist public action urging that the pending legislation to restructure   from Village Tattler Read more »