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Supervisor Petrone Votes For CSEA Layoffs, Elimination of Jobs, Increased Fees & A Raise For Himself

November 18, 2012 1:38 pm 1 Comment

Supervisor Petrone called for a special budget meeting that took place on Thursday, November 15. For those who regularly attend town board meetings and follow the shenanigans of the way our town operates under supervisor Petrone, this meeting and the budget process should come as no surprise. The environment of the meeting was hostile as […]

Huntington Holiday Parade and Street Festival November 24th

November 18, 2012 8:10 am Comments Off

The Third Annual Holiday Parade and Street Festival in Huntington Village will kick off at 7 p.m. Saturday, November 24,bringing a rousing end to Small Business Saturday with Long Island’s biggest electric light holiday parade and float contest.

Crash In Dix Hills Kills 27 Year Old Man

November 17, 2012 2:22 pm Comments Off

Krystopher Simmons was driving a 2012 Honda Civic westbound on Caledonia Road. He was approximately 300 feet east of Wolf Hill Road in Dix Hills when his vehicle left the road and collided with a guard rail and struck a tree. The accident occurred at approximately 3:00 a.m. on September 17. Simmons was pronounced dead […]

Singing For A Great Cause!

November 16, 2012 6:15 am Comments Off

Please join us in helping Long Islanders who are in great need after Sandy’s devastation.

Dix Hills Man Dies In House Fire

November 15, 2012 9:50 pm Comments Off

A tenant arrived at his home located at 18 Lauren Avenue in Dix Hills at approximately 4:55 p.m. He found his landlord, Kenneth Horadnitsky, in the house which was filled with smoke. The tenant pulled Horadnitsky out of the burning home and called police. Horadnitsky, 62, was pronounced dead at the scene by a physician […]

Bellone & Mangano Announce End of Temporary Fuel Policy

November 15, 2012 5:51 pm 1 Comment

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone and Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano announced today that effective midnight, November 16, 2012 the temporary fuel management program that was instituted on November 9th has officially been suspended. The original program was a coordinated regional effort designed to better manage and ease fuel challenges that arose as a […]

Washington Drive Students Get A Unique Earth Science Lesson

November 14, 2012 4:16 pm Comments Off

Story by Alison DeMaria
Students of Washington Drive Primary School in the Harborfields Central School District recently took part in a vaudevillian presentation that explored the earth and the effects of littering. The Grand Falloons, Professor W. and his companion Meatloaf entertained students throughout an interactive assembly titled “Professor Winklebottom’s Earth Science Circus.”
During the course of […]

Message From Highway Superintendent William Naughton

November 14, 2012 4:05 pm Comments Off

Dear Huntington Residents,

Hurricane Sandy has caused major destruction to trees, public and private.

LIPA has almost completed electric restoration. I am saddened about all the people who had no electricity. The Highway Office is making available to the residents a website with an online map that will show our progress toward the complete cleanup of vegetative debris caused […]

LIPA Chief Resigns Amid Hurricane Sandy Debacle

November 13, 2012 8:53 pm Comments Off

Today, Mike Hervey, tendered his resignation as Chief Operating Officer of the Long Island Power Authority, to be effective at the end of the year.

Special Town Board Budget Meeting To Be Held 9:00 a.m. Thursday

November 13, 2012 3:59 pm 1 Comment

A special town board meeting has been scheduled for Thursday, November 12, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. According to a Town Hall press release the purpose of the meeting is to “consider various resolutions pertaining to the 2013 Huntington Town Budget”. The issues were to be discussed at the last town board meeting but were […]