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iPads saving Massapequa firm thousands

Quick ReadIsland Associates discovered real savings in going paperless to run its lawn and garden business.

Douglas Connell of Island Associates uses his iPad

Photo credit: Newsday/Karen Wiles Stabile | Douglas Connell of Island Associates uses his iPad as he works at a backyard swimming pool job in Greenlawn last week. (Nov.3, 2011)

For more than 10 years Island Associates of Massapequa has been taming unruly lawns and yards by adding irrigation and sculpting shrubbery. Recently, the company decided to tame its own unruly paperwork by going digital.

Douglas Connell started Island Associates in 1999 after graduating from high school in Dix Hills. Early on, he had two or three employees working on about 10 jobs a year....

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