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Opioid Overdose Prevention Program To Expand

April 12, 2014 10:18 am 1 Comment

Life-saving heroin antidote naloxone to be available to all law enforcement officers in New York State.

Running and Winning: Pathways to Public Service for Young Women

April 11, 2014 10:41 am Comments Off

The League of Women of Huntington Voters presented a comprehensive workshop entitled “Running and Winning” to 42 young high school women on April 3rd at the Dolan Center in Huntington. The program was designed to introduce the students to politics and public service as viable career choices through dialogues and discussions with elected public officials […]

Dead Body Found in Huntington Village

April 10, 2014 12:37 pm 1 Comment

Suffolk County Homicide detectives received a call Wednesday, April 9, at approximately 11 p.m. that a dead body was discovered in Huntington Village. The body was found behind Waldbaum’s supermarket at 60 wall Street, Huntington. An Arson squad truck was on scene last night as well.
Police told us “It’s a non-criminal death investigation and they do […]

Attempted Break In At Vanderbilt Museum

April 9, 2014 9:36 am Comments Off

Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Suffolk County Police Second Precinct Crime Section officers are seeking the public’s help to identify and locate three people who attempted to enter the Vanderbilt Museum in Centerport last month.
Two males and one female attempted to enter the Museum, located at 180 Little Neck Road, on March 16 at approximately […]

April Declared Organ Donation Month

April 9, 2014 8:03 am Comments Off

Councilman Eugene Cook sponsored a resolution declaring April Organ Donation Month and urges all residents to opt-in to saving a life. There are currently more than a 120,000 individuals on a waiting list for organ donation; in New York State alone the number exceeds 10,000. For many, a donated organ is the answer to a […]

Autism Speaks at Commack Middle School

April 8, 2014 9:58 pm Comments Off

Selling Bracelets to Raise Autism Awareness Blue was the color of the day on World Autism Awareness Day on April 2. Students and staff wore blue to “shine a bright light on autism as a growing global health crisis.”

National Public Health Week

April 8, 2014 8:39 pm Comments Off

Suffolk County has joined New York State and hundreds of communities throughout the nation in observing National Public Health Week, April 7 -13. This week — as New York State Health Commissioner Nirav R. Shah, MD, MPH states, “promotes the key components of the state’s Prevention Agenda 2013-2017.” County Executive Steve Bellone calls attention to […]

Earth Day Awareness

April 8, 2014 7:34 pm Comments Off

Co-Presented by: Food & Water Watch and Slow Food Huntington
Monday, April 21st at 7:30 pm
Gasland 2
Special Guest: Eric Weltman of Food & Water Watch
In this explosive follow-up to his Oscar-nominated film Gasland, filmmaker Josh Fox takes a deeper look at the dangers of fracking, the controversial method of extracting natural gas and oil, now occurring […]

Greenlawn FD Comedy Night

April 8, 2014 4:59 pm Comments Off

Councilman Cook On The John Gomez Radio Show

April 7, 2014 8:31 pm Comments Off

On March 31, 2014, radio show host John Gomez asked Huntington Councilman Eugene Cook to call into the radio show to discuss the issue regarding Supervisor Frank Petrone handing in his retirement papers. Gomez explained “what this essentially means is that on top of collecting his $160,000 a year salary, he is going to get […]