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Officials Discuss LIPA Response

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Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone and Supervisors Schaffer, Croci and Walsh will discuss LIPA’s response to flood impacted areas in Babylon, Islip and Brookhaven. They will outline a new process that LIPA has adopted at the urging of the county and townships to quickly and safely restore power to impacted areas. Additional attendees include- Amityville Village […]

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School Closings

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Cold Spring Harbor – Closed
Commack – Two hour delayed opening. (All Commack schools will begin two hours later than the regularly scheduled time and buses will run two hours later than usual. FURTHER, all morning activities, including SCOPE, band and morning tech for high school students are cancelled. )
Elwood – Closed
Half Hollow Hills – Closed
Harborfields […]

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Harry Chapin Food Bank and Long Island Cares Donation

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KING KULLEN AND BOZZUTO’S INC. SPEARHEAD $100,000 DONATION TO THOSE HARDEST HIT BY HURRICANE SANDY
 
Funds will go to Long Island Cares/Harry Chapin Food Bank
in the Form of King Kullen and IGA Gift Certificates
 Bethpage, NY – November 7, 2012 – King Kullen Grocery Co., Inc. (Bethpage, New York) and its wholesale grocery supplier, Bozzuto’s Inc. (Cheshire, […]

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Storm Update From William Spencer

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Dear Neighbor,
 I write this as the approaching nor’easter begins to bear down on us and the temperatures continue to drop because I am increasingly worried about residents who do not have electricity or a secure, safe place to stay. My office has been working continually with LIPA and other government and non-profit agencies to get […]

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Election Results

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President
Barack Obama and Joe Biden 274830 (50.75%) winner
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan 259348 (47.89%)
United States Senator
Kirsten Gillibrand 324070 (63-31%) winner
Wendy Long 181308 (35.42%)
Colia Clark 2058 (.4%)
Chris Edes 2365 (.46%)
John Mangelli 1901 (.37%)
2nd Congressional District
Vivianne Falcone 73054 (46.74%)
Peter King 83179 (53.22%) winner
3rd Congressional District
Steve Israel 51,903 (56.54%) winner
Stephen Labate 39363 (42.85%)
Michael McDermott 470 (.51%)
Anthony Tolda […]

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Warming Stations

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WARMING STATIONS
The following warming stations are provided by local houses of worship, fire departments, and recreation facilities.  Each station provides a different combination of services.  Please make note in each case of hours and services provided.  Only Lights of Salvation is providing food.  See separate list of meal distribution sites.
New Village Recreation Center, 20 Wireless […]

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Petrone Opens Village Green as Shelter

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Huntington Supervisor Frank P. Petrone announces that he is opening the Town’s Village Green Senior Center as a shelter for persons affected by Hurricane Sandy and the upcoming storm.
Supervisor Petrone’s action followed the announcement that Walt Whitman High School would no longer be available as a shelter and that the American Red Cross would be […]

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Suffolk County Storm Update November 6, 7:00 PM

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The Suffolk County Department of Health Services – working closely with the Suffolk County Department of Public Works, the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army – is in the process of consolidating shelters put in place across the county over the last week.
Approximately 80% of those housed in temporary shelters required sheltering as a […]

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Woman Burned When Clothes Catch Fire

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Suffolk County Police responded to a Commack home after a resident suffered burns when her clothing caught fire this morning. A 40-year-old female resident of Elder Drive, whose home is without power, went outside to fill up her generator with gas and inadvertently spilled some on her clothing and the outside of the gas can. […]

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Homeless Woman Killed By Falling Tree

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A woman was found dead on November 5, 2012 at approximately 3 p.m. in a tent where she was living in the woods adjacent to 124 Veterans Memorial Highway in Commack. She had been staying in the tent during the recent storm and was killed when a tree fell on her. Anne Marie Dolan, 57, […]

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