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Setauket church raising funds for a new roof
Its designation on the National Register of Historic Places complicates preservation efforts and could make the project more expensive since contemporary building materials cannot be used, church leaders said.
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'The pope's astronomer' coming to Amityville to give a tour of the heavens
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House-hunting gets even harder ... A family's heartbreaking choice: Aid in Dying law ... Meet the LIers who caught Alonso's HR ... What's up on LI?
LI town readies to pierce the tax cap
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Blakeman releases $4.6B spending plan proposal for next year, with no property tax hikes
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Home with architectural signficance destroyed by fire
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Rosie O'Donnell joins 'The Rocky Horror Show' cast
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Route 347 in Hauppauge reopened after crash left 1 seriously hurt
LI duck farm reopens with new generation of birds after 19-month shutdown
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Belmont Park set to reopen Friday after 3 years of renovations
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Three LIers snag Pete Alonso's 300th home run ball
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Ex-owner of mob-linked restaurant wins $6 million in police abuse case
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'She gets to make a decision': LI woman with incurable disease considers using Medical Aid in Dying law
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Suffolk delays plan to install Flock gunfire detection technology for a year
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2 hurt when fire damages Nassau home
LI driver pleads guilty to leaving scene of deadly crash
Benjamin Sheen-Waltzer, of Southampton, admits to leaving the scene of a crash that killed Angel Asitimbay in Hampton Bays in March 2024.
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MS-13 leader at center of 'historic wave of violence and murder' sentenced
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Guilty plea in crash of stolen SUV that killed woman, injured son
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Gotti grandson weds woman who accused him of assault, lawyer says
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House-hunting gets even harder ... A family's heartbreaking choice: Aid in Dying law ... Meet the LIers who caught Alonso's HR ... What's up on LI?
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Assault charge against Smithtown councilman dismissed
Thomas Lohmann had been charged with striking Thomas J. McCarthy, a fellow councilman, during a closed-door meeting.
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How deportations are disrupting 7 key LI industries that rely on immigrant workers
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Democrats push Trump to release millions in counterterror money to NYS
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LI coffee & doughnut spot closes after 2 years
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Nearly $2M in New York State grants awarded to LI fire districts
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Huntington hearing draws debate over Melville Town Center plan
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Delays hamper plan to stabilize key, erosion-prone road
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Town weighing plans for condo-hotel at former TGI Fridays
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Islip bans large battery energy storage facilities
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They're men and they knit. A Northport meetup brings them together.
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Cómo las deportaciones están afectando a siete sectores clave de Long Island que dependen de los trabajadores inmigrantes
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Suffolk OKs $60M in bonds to cover red light ticket refund program
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Town residents raise concern over chemical found in toxic plume
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New home price records on LI: $911G in Nassau, $760G in Suffolk
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Town faces deadline to fix plume cleanup plan after state finds errors
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Mastic fire commissioner Rudolph G. Sunderman Sr. dies at 80
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Sunken Meadow park reopens after deadly crash
This village has high-ranking schools, mixed-use properties and a George Washington cameo
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LI residents oppose trucking station at closed landfill property
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$500G grant to fund improvements for historic LI park
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New Long Island restaurants to try
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He's 105, he survived WWII, but he still plays a mean sax
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Dem-backed bill to punish illicit massage spas in Nassau still under review
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Triathlete, 34, dies while competing in Hamptons
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1 girl, 23 arrested in 2 states: Inside LI's hidden world of drugs, sex trafficking
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32 killed in crashes in one of LI's deadliest months. Here's the devastating impact.
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Nearly 6,000 LI households could face homelessness if Trump cuts Section 8 funding
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Out East: All the buzz at the Hallockville Museum Farm
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That time a 'monster' washed ashore in Montauk
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The Sandbox brings food trucks to Oyster Bay
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LI hockey dad beats cancer
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Turtle-sniffing dogs searching LI woods to help protect a species
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Out East: Home on the free range at Browder's Birds
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Picture This! That time the stars came out in Westbury
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LI Works: Where's the beef? Ken visits a butcher shop
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LI Works: Ken goes against the grain at Bullfrogs Woodworks
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Making ice cream at Coyle's in Islip
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