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LOCAL BOY SCOUT VOLUNTEER LEADERS HONORED

July 23, 2016 12:10 pm Comments Off

The Matinecock District of the Suffolk County Council, Boy Scouts of America, held its annual District Awards and Recognitions Dinner to honor adult volunteers on Thursday May 26, 2016 at Huntington Elks Lodge. The Matinecock District serves over 3,000 youth members in the Town of Huntington and in the Commack, Kings Park, and Hauppauge school […]

Rabbi Eli Laufer Scholar-In-Residence and Musia Laufer Coordinator of Special Needs Youth /Ariella’s Friendship Circle & Director of New Sisterhood Chapter

July 23, 2016 1:53 am Comments Off

Rabbi Yakov Saacks, Director of The Chai Center, announced today that Rabbi Eli Laufer has been named Scholar-in-Residence, and his wife Musia Laufer, Coordinator of Special Needs Youth and Ariella’s Friendship Circle, a local chapter of today’s fastest growing Jewish organization for children with special needs.
Rabbi Laufer will primarily focus on education, where he will […]

Patricia Shih Family Concert: ‘Songs in the Key of Earth’

July 23, 2016 1:40 am Comments Off

Sunday, July 31, in the Planetarium

Patricia Shih Family Concert:
‘Songs in the Key of Earth’Sunday, July 31, in the Planetarium

CENTERPORT, NY (July 19, 2016) – Patricia Shih is an award-winning singer-songwriter who specializes in family music filled with heart, soul and fun. She will give her next family concert in the Vanderbilt Reichert Planetarium on Sunday, […]

Shots Fired on Lynch Street & Varney Avenue

July 22, 2016 6:13 pm 1 Comment

Early this morning on July 22, 2016, shot spotter detected 3 rounds that went off, on the corner of, Lynch St and Varney Avenue in Huntington Station, just a couple of hundred feet from where Maggie Rosales was murdered in 2014. (https://thehuntingtonian.com/2014/10/13/woman-found-stabbed-to-death-near-depot-road-huntington-station/).

Residents have been trying since then to work with town, county, state and police […]

Town of Huntington Commends Oldfield Middle School for Supporting Veteran

July 22, 2016 1:26 am Comments Off

Trackchair fundraising makes a difference

Harborfields’ Oldfield Middle School received a proclamation from the Town of Huntington on July 12 in recognition of fundraising efforts that supported the purchase of a Trackchair for disabled veteran Julia Torres. Principal Joanne Giordano was joined by several students to accept the honor at a town board meeting held at […]

Woman Ticketed for Using Phony Passenger, While Driving Unregistered in HOV Lane

July 21, 2016 4:02 pm Comments Off

Suffolk County Police issued a Miller Place woman multiple tickets after she was pulled over for driving with a phony passenger in the HOV lane on the Long Island Expressway in Dix Hills this morning July 21, 2016.

Highway Patrol Officer Andrew Spina was traveling in the left lane of the westbound Long Island Expressway, near […]

SCPD and Dix Hills Fire Department Respond to LIE Overturn Crash

July 21, 2016 3:50 pm Comments Off

The Suffolk County Police and the Dix Hills Fire Department responded to a report of a heavy rescue overturn crash on the westbound Long Island Expressway near Bagatelle Road, Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at about 7:45 p.m. Chief Robert Fling was the first arriving chief, and confirmed an overturned vehicle with the driver ejected and […]

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 […]