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Huntington Chamber Seeks Long Island’s Outstanding Young Professionals

November 9, 2011 10:32 am Comments Off

Huntington Chamber Seeks Long Island’s Outstanding Young Professionals
Nominations Are Now Being Accepted for the Celebrate Long Island’s Young Professionals Program

Competition Brings Together Long Island’s Brightest High School Students

November 9, 2011 10:26 am Comments Off

The Young Professionals Chamber of Commerce (YPCC) will host its Ninth Annual Business Leadership Competition

Democrats Maintain Majority on Town Board and Election Results

November 7, 2011 7:00 pm Comments Off

The Democrats have been able to maintain their majority on the Huntington Town Board. Susan Berland (D, WF, I) came in second after Gene Cook (R, C, I). Glenda Jackson (D, WF) finished fourth. Herb Morrow (R, C) finished third. The candidates with the top two number of votes win a seat on the board. […]

Stimson Penny Wars Sets Food Record

November 7, 2011 2:52 pm Comments Off

Stimson students from the Pennywars winning homeroom
with their teacher Ms.Terry Haas (standing far left) at TD Bank.

The Stimson community added up more than just pennies this year. In addition to the annual Penny Wars event, Stimson Assistant Principal Mr. Anthony Sansotta last year added a food drive component that truly showed the spirit of […]

More Distortion from the Doctor

November 7, 2011 10:01 am Comments Off

Over the weekend my opponent issued a robo-call falsely stating that if elected I will be eligible to receive two pensions. This is categorically untrue and this telephone message marks another chapter in a campaign in which my opponent has deliberately attempted to misinform the voters.
As has been pointed out previously, I am a retired […]

Opinion: Lowe’s – Demographics, Costs etc.

November 7, 2011 6:03 am 4 Comments

The recent decision by Lowe’s to not complete building a new location in Huntington Station had something to do with the economy not getting better as soon as had been hoped, that is a given. What is not a given is why a billion dollar corporation chooses to continue building in one location and not […]

Susan Berland and Kensington Estates

November 6, 2011 7:02 am 4 Comments

On January 11, 2011 the Town Board passed two resolutions, offered by Susan Berland, by a vote of 3-2 to approve the building of a project called Kensington Estates at the border of Huntington and Oyster Bay. The company that submitted the application for a change of zone was Triangle Equities 496 West Jericho Tpke. […]

5000 Unique Visitors!

November 4, 2011 10:42 pm Comments Off

This will be our last notification of milestones until we pass 10,000 unique visitors.
It was just a week ago we passed 4000 unique visitors since going live on August 13, 2011. Again we would like to thank you all for your support. We would like to add that we hope you liked the print editions […]

Were Laws Broken? Sounds Like Back Room Deals? Caught on Tape

November 2, 2011 10:00 pm 6 Comments

The Huntingtonian was trying to obtain information regarding the rental registration law as required by Town Code (see below). We believe the law was passed with legislation in 2002 and recently amended to include Section 8 dwellings which were previously excluded. We were under the impression that there was supposed to be some sort of […]

Elizabeth Black Challenges William Spencer

November 2, 2011 3:49 pm Comments Off

In a local newspaper article on October 27, 2011, the Superintendent of the Huntington School District, James W. Polansky alerted the community that the 2% cap on school district budget increases will cause an enormous challenge to the district’s ability to deliver educational service in the coming year. In the campaign for the18th Legislative District, […]