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Town Unveils Plans for Conte Center

November 28, 2017 3:29 pm Comments Off

$10 million project will transform former State Armory into community activity hub

With 150 of his family, friends and colleagues looking on, the Town of Huntington unveiled concept plans November 25 for transforming the former New York State Armory into a community center to be named after the late Assemb. James Conte.
“We’ve been waiting for this […]

Huntington Board Approves 2018 Budget

November 24, 2017 2:59 pm Comments Off

$194.2 million spending plan maintains services and stays within state tax cap

The Huntington Town Board, at a special meeting November 20, approved a $194.2 million budget for 2018, a spending plan that maintains all Town services at current levels and calls for a tax levy that is under the state-mandated tax cap.

At the […]

Local Election Results 2017 Final Unofficial Results

November 7, 2017 11:52 pm Comments Off

Unofficial Election Results:
Prop 1 Constitutional Convention Yes- 40,820 No- 264,035
Prop 2 Amendment Partial or Full forfeiture of public employees pension. Yes – 206,455 No-91,904
Prop 3 Amendment Authorizing the use of Forest Perserve Land for Specified Purposes Yes- 142,769 No- 150,805
Justice of the Supreme Court (vote 4)
Linda Kevins – […]

Local Elections Results 2017 Projected Winner

November 7, 2017 7:38 pm Comments Off

We have projected the 1st winner in today’s elections County Court Judge David A Morris – Winner -Ran Unopposed

Results are unofficial.

2017 Political Endorsements By TheHuntingtonian

October 26, 2017 4:55 pm Comments Off

The criteria for receiving an endorsement from the Huntingtonian:
Integrity and honesty are more important to us than where candidates stand on all issues. Since we will never all agree with everything a candidate stands for, it is important to elect individuals who remember they work for the people. We should not have to be detectives […]

DA Spota and Chief of the Government Corruption Bureau – McPartland – INDICTED!

October 25, 2017 4:50 pm Comments Off

Suffolk County District Attorney and Chief Of Investigations Indicted For Obstructing Federal Civil Rights Investigation

Defendants Attempted to Cover Up the December 14, 2012 Assault of Handcuffed Suspect by Former Suffolk County Police Chief James Burke

A four-count indictment was returned this morning by a federal grand jury in the United States District Court for the Eastern […]

Throwback Thursday – Cuthbertson, Matthews and Ethics Part II

October 19, 2017 1:07 am Comments Off

Original posted November 2, 2014 :
In a recent investigative report on Huntington Councilman Mark Cuthbertson’s business dealings with other townships, foiled documents from a North Hempstead investigation reveal that the Huntington Councilman and James Matthews, who is currently running for Suffolk County District Court Judge had business dealings as far back as 2004. The documents, […]

Flash Back Friday’s – The Birth of “Dr. Density” etc.

October 13, 2017 1:22 am Comments Off

This story was originally posted on October 22, 2011:
If you read the current online commentary on various news and social media sites you will see the mention of the phrase “Dr. Density” in regard to Dr. Spencer who is running for Suffolk County Legislature for the 18th District.We wanted to clarify what this phrase means […]

Throwback Thursday – Cuthbertson, Matthews and Ethics

October 12, 2017 1:55 am Comments Off

This originally was posted October 12, 2014:
On October 5th, 2014 Newsday ran a story about Huntington Town Councilman Mark Cuthbertson not disclosing his business relationship with Gary Melius, owner of Oheka Castle. Cuthbertson voted in favor of a zoning change to allow the development of Condominiums on the Melius property during the same time frame […]

Letter To The Editor – Red-Light Camera Study

October 8, 2017 5:26 pm Comments Off

Dear Neighbors,

The Suffolk Legislature just approved Legislator Sarah Anker’s bill that allocates $250,000 to study why there has been a tremendous increase in accidents at red-light camera locations in an attempt to preserve the program. You read that correctly – $250,000 to study why rear-end collisions have increased by 30% and overall accidents have drastically […]