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20TH ANNIVERSARY REMEMBRANCE of TWA Flight 800

July 21, 2016 3:25 pm Comments Off

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone joined the families and friends of those who were on board TWA Flight 800 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the crash. The plane crashed just eight miles off the South Shore on July 17, 1996 – killing all 230 passengers and crew on board.

Hundreds were in attendance at the […]

Summer Youth Connection Begins Second Year in 2016

July 21, 2016 3:21 pm Comments Off

Building on the success of its initial year, Summer Youth Connection has begun its second season of offering a variety of free educational and recreational activities for the Town’s youth five evenings a week between July 11 and August 19, 2016.
More than 200 teenagers took part last year, and program founder Councilwoman Tracey Edwards said […]

Huntington Folk Festival Set for Saturday, July 30 2016

July 21, 2016 3:16 pm Comments Off

Slaid Cleaves Headlines Free Day-Long Event at Heckscher Park

Slaid Cleaves, an acclaimed Maine-bred and Texas-based singer-songwriter, headlines the 11th Annual Huntington Folk Festival on Saturday, July 30 at Huntington, NY’s Heckscher Park, located off Main Street (Route 25A) and Prime Avenue. Extending from noon until l0:30 p.m., the free festival – co-presented by the Folk […]

Petco Foundation Invests In Lifesaving Work Of Little Shelter

July 21, 2016 3:06 pm Comments Off

Grant of $2,500 will extend efforts to save more animal lives in Huntington

Little Shelter of Huntington, today announced it has been awarded a $2,500 grant from the Petco Foundation to support its newly built Isolation Room.

Little Shelter is a nonprofit organization that rescues and rehabilitates unwanted animals from its local town shelters and places them […]

South Huntington Car Crash Injures Two

July 20, 2016 7:04 pm Comments Off

The Huntington Manor and Melville Fire Departments responded to a two-car crash on Old Country Road and Wolf Hill Road on Wednesday morning, July 20 at about 7 a.m. The drivers of both vehicles suffered injuries and were transported to Huntington Hospital by the Melville FD Rescue Squad and Huntington Community First Aid Squad. The […]

Man Shot in Face Lafayette Street Greenlawn

July 20, 2016 6:56 pm Comments Off

Suffolk County Police Second Squad detectives are investigating an incident in which a man was shot in front of his home in Greenlawn last night July 19, 2016..
A man was shot in the face by another man on Lafayette Street at approximately 11:15 p.m. The victim was talking to a woman at the time of […]

Northport HS Named a NYS Scholar-Athlete School of Distinction 2016

July 20, 2016 6:51 pm Comments Off

Congratulations to the student-athletes, coaches and teachers at Northport High School, which was named one only of 32 high schools in New York State to earn the New York State Public High School Athletic Association’s Scholar-Athlete School of Distinction Award for the 2015-16 school year. This is the second year that the school has earned […]

July 2016 Town Board Meeting

July 20, 2016 1:36 am Comments Off

Action taken by the Town Board at July 12, 2016 meeting:

— appropriated $75,000 from the Environmental Open Space and Park Improvement Fund and Neighborhood Parks Fund for construction of a stormwater runoff control rain garden at Centerport Beach. The Town has received a grant of $137,320.45 from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to help […]

Huntington Board Takes First Steps to Create A Blueway Trail

July 19, 2016 3:36 pm Comments Off

The Huntington Town Board, at its July 2016 meeting, took the first steps toward creating a Huntington Blueway Trail, which will highlight cultural and historic points of interest along the Town’s shoreline.

The Board authorized applying for a $76,000 New York State Environmental Protection Fund grant to undertake the project with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk […]

That’s So Vegan!

July 19, 2016 3:30 pm Comments Off

Event Venue Name: Huntington Public Library
Venue Address: 338 Main Street, Huntington, NY 11743
Title: That’s So Vegan!
Date: Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Time: 7:00 pm
Cost: Free
Description:
Join longtime vegan couple Journalist Jerry Cimisi and Vegan Chef Jo-Ann Tiranno for an evening of exploring, discovering and tasting the reasons for adopting a vegan diet – with cooking demo and ample […]