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Conte To Host Sensory-Friendly Family Film-UPDATE

February 22, 2012 6:00 am Comments Off

Assemblyman Jim Conte is hosting a movie for special-needs children living with autism and other developmental disabilities at the AMCLoews Shore 8, 37 Wall Street in Huntington Village, on Saturday, February 25 at 10:00 a.m. The movie, UPDATED 2/21/12 “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island,” will be presented in a sensory-friendly manner – not too dark or loud […]

Reminder From Town Hall

February 19, 2012 6:23 pm Comments Off

The Department of Waste Management would like to remind all residents that there is no scheduled trash pick-up on Monday, February 20, 2012 due to the President’s Day holiday. All scheduled pick up days have been moved back one day.
If your trash is normally collected on Mondays and Thursdays then your collection days this week […]

Preservation Of The Sallie Ruppert Waterbird Park Preserve

February 18, 2012 6:37 am Comments Off

Town of Huntington and US Fish and Wildlife are working together to maintain the Sallie Ruppert Waterbird Park-Preserve
On February 6th, the Huntington Town Board passed a resolution to execute an intermunicipal agreement with the US Fish and Wildlife Service for vegetative maintenance for the preservation of the Town of Huntington Sallie Ruppert Waterbird Park Preserve. […]

Harborfields Hosts South Korean Education Officials

February 18, 2012 6:22 am Comments Off

Harborfields High School in the Harborfields Central School District welcomed 26 visitors from South Korea. The guests included two officers from the Ministry of Education, education officers from each of the 16 South Korean provinces, senior researchers from the Korean Educational Development Institute, master teachers, and a journalist.
The purpose of the visit was to give […]

Huntington SEPTA Donates Thousands for Mini Grants

February 17, 2012 3:28 pm Comments Off

Huntington’s Special Education PTA has donated thousands of dollars to the district to cover the cost of ten mini-grant awards for a variety of educational items designed to improve students’ classroom experience.
Huntington School Board members accepted SEPTA’s donation to the district in the amount of $4,637.31 to fund the competitive grant proposals, which were submitted […]

Huntington Manor & Melville FD’s Respond to Route 110 Crash

February 17, 2012 7:30 am Comments Off

About fifty volunteer firefighters and rescue personnel from the Huntington Manor and Melville Fire Departments responded to a two-car collision with a victim trapped on Route 110 and Schwab Road in South Huntington, Thursday night, February 16, at about 8:40 p.m. Working together with Suffolk Police Emergency Services, firefighters extricated a female driver from one of […]

Whitman Sending 4 to State Track Meet

February 17, 2012 7:16 am Comments Off

Boy’s winter track coach Rob Conroy and girl’s track coach Rufus Shepard are proud to announce that four Walt Whitman students have qualified for the New York State Track & Field state championships to be held on March 3rd, at Cornell University.

Girl’s track captain, Jackie Crunden jumped 5’ 7” in the high jump, breaking a […]

Two Huntington Station Men Arrested For Burglary

February 17, 2012 7:01 am Comments Off

Suffolk County Police arrested three men for burglarizing a North Lindenhurst speed shop on February 16.
Carlos Silva, 17, of 235 5th Ave., Huntington Station, Juan Carlos Ortiz, 19, 117 of 8th Ave., Huntington Station and Eric Agraz, 20, of 2629 Magnolia Rd., North Bellmore, were charged with Burglary 3rd Degree and Possession of Burglar Tools. They are […]

You Paid $100,000 for This Report – You Should Read It

February 17, 2012 6:46 am 1 Comment

This is the Brownfield Report that we spoke of in the article Station Lied to Again. We strongly recommend that you read the entire report. We believe that Mr. Petrone and at least several members of the Town Council intend to move forward with these ideas. The Huntingtonian received unconfirmed information that additional public funds […]

Legislator Spencer to Host “Listening Tour”

February 15, 2012 5:55 pm Comments Off

Suffolk County Legislator William Spencer, representing the residents of the 18th Legislative District, wants to hear from you! As part of his commitment to cultivating an open and honest dialogue about the issues with his constituents, Legislator Spencer and his staff have scheduled a series of four community meetings around the district.
“The goal of these […]