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Published September 089/11 still emotionally impacts many New Yorkers, polls finds
Days before the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, a majority of people on Long Island and in New York City say the emotional impact remains vivid and ‘still raw,’ according to a Mount Sinai South Nassau “Truth in Medicine” poll. Roughly two-thirds (66%) of…
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Published September 08Couple builds company on Central American roots
About 45 years ago, Nelson Hernández, as a boy in El Salvador, helped his grandmother make Central American cheese the old-fashioned way. It’s a craft he still associates with his childhood, although lately he runs a company based in Bay Shore, providing Central American cheeses…
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Published September 08Adelphi University appoints first-generation college grad as new board chair
Adelphi University recently named alumnus Leonard Achan, a first-generation American, CEO and ICU nurse, as its new board chair. Before becoming Adelphi’s board chair, he also served as the board’s secretary and sat as a board member from 2016 to 2021. Achan graduated in 1999 and…
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Published September 08Oyster Bay remembers the fallen during Tobay Beach memorial ceremony
Karen Vacchio said that after losing her husband two years ago to a 9/11-related cancer, she had his name inscribed on the Town of Oyster Bay’s Sept. 11 memorial. She said that before he died, she told him she would try her hardest not to let him be forgotten. The memorial is…
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Published September 08BOCES training teens to learn advanced defense manufacturing
For years now, Long Island government and business officials have stressed the need to train younger workers to take over well-paying jobs in the Island’s defense industry from those retiring or who have left. The U.S. Small Business Administration has recently taken a major step…
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Published September 08Lake Ronkonkoma man killed dad in Mastic on Labor Day, cops say
A Lake Ronkonkoma man has been arrested for allegedly stabbing his 69-year-old father to death in the victim’s Mastic home shortly after midnight on Labor Day, Suffolk County police said. Edward Brown called 911 to report that he had been stabbed in his apartment on Mastic…
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Published September 07Smithtown Kia technician workers vote to unionize despite thousands spent on alleged union-busting campaign
Technicians at Smithtown Kia voted 8-1 on July 13 to join United Auto Workers Local 259 after union organizers said management responded by hiring two outside labor consultants at an estimated cost of about a year’s salary for one of the employees. The labor union, representing…
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Published September 06Geraldo Rivera Column: Crazy
Start with this: you must be crazy to strangle your three little children to death. Only an insane person would commit a crime so vile and horrifying. When the Lindsay Clancy case broke, most people I know were outraged by the terrible deed. My mind was made up as her trial…
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Published September 06Suffolk County SPCA Increases Cash Reward After Death of Turtle Babylon Submerged in Babylon Town Park Lake
The Suffolk County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) has increased its cash reward offering to $3,000 for anyone with information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or people responsible for the intentional drowning of a turtle in Geiger…
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Published September 06Victoria’s Secrets: A whirlwind week
To my delight, the Hampton Classic is more than magnificent horses who jump poles and look like they are flying in the air — it’s also about the wonderful people I meet there. Enjoy my photo album of “Seen on the Scene.” All week long, we talked at the Classic about the lasting…
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Published September 06Op-Ed: Grandparenting: a gift that goes both ways
Every time I drive on Ocean Parkway, the road that runs along Long Island’s South Shore, I think of my grandfather and the fishing trips we took together decades ago. For a few seconds, the excitement I felt as a boy comes rushing back to my grown-up self. I sometimes wonder if…
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Published September 05Oktoberfest celebrations kick off on Long Island
Sept. 19 will mark the official start of Oktoberfest this year, when the 191st Munich Oktoberfest taps its first keg with the traditional cry “O zapft is” (it is tapped)! Many celebrations will be held that day across Long Island, with more to come throughout the rest of…