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COUNCILMAN COOK SPONSORS RESOLUTION TO RENAME PARK IN MEMORY OF NEW YORK CITY POLICE OFFICER CHARLES ODDO

May 12, 2016 4:16 pm Comments Off

Councilman Gene Cook on Tuesday proudly sponsored legislation to rename Verleye Park in East Northport after fallen NYPD Officer Charles A. Oddo.
Oddo, who was assigned to NYPD Highway Patrol No. 2, was killed in the line of duty on February 17, 1996 after being struck by a vehicle while setting up flares in the merge […]

ASSEMBLY MAJORITY BLOCKS TUITION ASSISTANCE INCREASE

May 11, 2016 2:40 pm Comments Off

Majority members in the Assembly’s Committee on Higher Education voted May 10, 2016 to block Assemblyman Chad A. Lupinacci’s (R,C,I-South Huntington) proposed increase to the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP). Opposing members within the committee voted to hold Lupinacci’s bill (A.5809-A) from leaving committee, where it can expire at the conclusion of Legislative Session in June. […]

Suffolk County Offers Free Program for Individuals Living with Diabetes

May 9, 2016 2:22 pm Comments Off

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone and Health Commissioner James Tomarken, MD, invite residents who have type 2 diabetes and their caregivers to attend a free program that will enable them to manage their diabetes. The program, entitled, “The Stanford Diabetes Self-Management Classes,” is conducted in collaboration with Cornell University Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County and comprises six […]

Meet Huntington Commerce Brian Finnegan Honoree

May 1, 2016 4:20 pm Comments Off

Brian T. Finnegan
Chief of Staff
Chad A. Lupinacci- Member of Assembly 10th District

Brian Finnegan, 23, is Chief of Staff to Assemblyman Chad A. Lupinacci, where he has worked since January 2015. A Northport native, he has significant experience with government and politics, having worked for the FOX News Channel, then-House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, and the […]

Huntington Town Board Recognizes 2016 Poetry for the HART Winners

April 29, 2016 5:15 pm Comments Off

Winning teens join poets Alan Semerdjian, Patti Tana, and Steven Licardi in April 21, 2016 reading at Walt Whitman Birthplace

The Huntington Town Board recently recognized 17 teen poets from the community selected for participation in the Town’s Poetry for the HART Public Art Initiative, presenting the winners with certificates signed by members of the Huntington […]

Important Commuter Parking Information for May

April 28, 2016 12:46 pm Comments Off

Waterproofing Project Resumes at South Parking Garage
The second level of the South Parking Garage at the Huntington Long Island Rail Road station will be closed for several weeks beginning Monday, May 2, for the completion of the waterproofing project that is the last phase of the garage’s rehabilitation. Following that closure, the fifth, fourth and […]

Huntington Sponsors Free Rabies Vaccination Clinic

April 27, 2016 5:46 pm Comments Off

Shots will be offered from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 15 in Town Hall parking lot
The Town of Huntington, the Suffolk County SPCA and the Suffolk County Department of Health Services will be holding a rabies vaccination clinic on Sunday May 15, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the parking lot of […]

COALITION SUPPORTS LETTING VOTERS DECIDE ON PLAN TO PROTECT WATER QUALITY

April 27, 2016 3:34 pm Comments Off

Proposal Would Expedite Implementation of Governor Cuomo’s Clean Water Plan for Suffolk County

April 25, 2016 Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone was joined by a bipartisan collection of elected officials, environmental activists and civic leaders to support a plan to reverse decades of nitrogen pollution of drinking and surface waters. County Executive Bellone called for allowing Suffolk […]

Slumlord, David Ney, Where are YOU, Shots Fired Again at Your Property

April 26, 2016 12:26 pm 1 Comment

Suffolk County Police Second Squad detectives are investigating an incident during which several shots were fired in Huntington Station early this morning Tuesday April 26, 2016.

Second Precinct officers responded to a SpotSpotter activation on 10th Avenue at approximately 1:30 a.m. Five men who were standing in front of 62 10th Ave. reported hearing shots and […]

Suffolk Proclaims April as Sarcoidosis Awareness Month

April 25, 2016 4:21 pm Comments Off

The Suffolk County Executive has signed legislation proclaiming April as Sarcoidosis Awareness Month in Suffolk County. The resolution, introduced by Legislator Kara Hahn, was intended to bring attention to this disease which is characterized by an overactive immune system and that, despite many years of research, still has no known specific cause.

Sarcoidosis is an inflammatory […]