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Suffolk police property auction raises $42G
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Suffolk Police Officer Robert Viggers was having trouble getting the crowd at the Property Section building in Yaphank on Wednesday to bite on a pair of home fitness program DVDs.
“C’mon,” he said, standing on a platform overlooking the crowd of dozens at the department’s auction. “Two seized P90X workout programs! It’ll work so great you’ll burn out the first one and need the second!”
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Read more »Suffolk offers new way to register emergency details
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Suffolk County has launched a system that allows residents to preregister information that can be accessed immediately by firefighters and paramedics responding to emergency calls.
County leaders Tuesday announced implementation of the “Smart911” system, in which residents can go online and create a profile, connected to their phone numbers, which will only be available to fire, rescue and...
Read more »Business measure passed by Nassau lawmakers
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The Nassau County Legislature Tuesday asked the state to approve five Nassau requests, including one that gives the villages of Hempstead and Freeport the unprecedented power to approve or disapprove businesses placed in their communities by the county or Town of Hempstead industrial development agencies.
The IDAs try to increase business and jobs in their municipalities by working out deals...
Read more »Islip Town Board OKs Verizon cell tower on Captree Island
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The Islip Town Board Tuesday approved a resolution authorizing Supervisor Tom Croci to enter into a contract with Verizon Wireless to install and maintain a cell tower on Captree Island.
South Shore and Fire Island fire officials spoke in favor of the tower, which would boost wireless capability on Fire Island. Kismet Fire Department Chief Dominic Bertucci and other chiefs have expressed concern...
Read more »HBO hit 'Girls,' star Lena Dunham film in Greenport
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Fourteen-year-old Charley Claudio spent her entire Tuesday morning sending pictures to Instagram.
But these weren’t just any ordinary pictures. They were of scenes from the hit HBO show "Girls" that filmed Tuesday in Greenport.
“This is exciting that they are filming in Greenport,” she said. “I get to brag to all my friends that I am here watching them film,” said the Mattituck...
Read more »2 health care seminars for small businesses
The Small Business Assistance Program and S.J. Edwards Inc. will present two health care seminars for small businesses.
The “Health Care Reform/The Affordable Care Act and the Impact on Small Businesses” events will be held at the Freeport Recreation Center, at 130 Merrick Rd.
The first event will be Wednesday from 9 to 11 a.m. The second will on Wednesday, July 24, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Attendees...
Read more »Live at the library: Video stream of really cute chicks
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This is the cutest thing you’ll see all day.
The Bayport-Blue Point Library is streaming video of a few baby chicks that recently hatched there. If you don’t see them right away, wait 10 seconds and you’ll likely blurt out “Whoa,” like we did, when they pop up into the camera.
The chicks were hatched from eggs provided by the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County. They began...
Read more »Shelter Rock Public Library gets $100G grant for canopy
The Shelter Rock Public Library has received a $100,000 state grant, reimbursing the library for a new solar-paneled canopy it recently built outside its entrance.
The grant is part of the New York State Economic Development Assistance Program, and also will fund new landscaping for the front of the building.
The canopy, library director Andrea Meluskey said, follows a major overhaul...
Read more »No-cost screening for breast cancer in North Merrick
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Nassau County Legis. David Denenberg (D-Merrick) and NuHealth-Nassau Health Care Corporation will co-sponsor a no-cost breast cancer screening event Wednesday at the North Merrick Library, 1691 Meadowbrook Rd., from 8:45 a.m. to noon.
The program is open to all Nassau women ages 40 and older. Women covered by insurance, Medicaid or Medicare will have their carrier billed, and must bring their...
Read more »Report on Suffolk County water quality is now online
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The Suffolk County Water Authority released its annual report on drinking water quality electronically for the first time.
Previously mailed as an insert in a free local newspaper, the annual report contains diagrams, maps and data on the level of contaminants in each community’s tap water. By posting the report online, SCWA will save between $85,000 and $125,000 annually, which likely will...
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