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What's a poet laureate do, anyway? Suffolk County's lead bard, David B. Axelrod, below right, debates the role and talks about the importance of poetry tonight at 7 at Borders Books, 2130 Nesconset Hwy., Stony Brook. It's free, 631-979-0500. -
BEST BETS
GO SEE Gateway Playhouse's production of "The Producers" - the musical comedy adapted by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan about a pair of theatrical producers trying to get rich - opens at 8 p.m. tomorrow at Patchogue Theatre. Tickets are $40-$46, 631-286-...Tags: Dance, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Long Island, Viniculture, Mel Brooks
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Jobless rate 5%, job growth paltry
emi.endo@newsday.comLong Island's economic landscape remains clouded by swelling unemployment and paltry job growth, according to monthly New York State Labor Department figures released Thursday. The unemployment rate for Long Island grew from 4.7 percent in June to 5...Tags: New York University, Unemployment, Adecco SA, Long Island, Business
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Ex-Marine held in kidnapping
Newsday Staff WriterSuffolk police have arrested a Nesconset man in connection with the brief abduction of a 10-year-old girl in Hauppauge last week, but that is of little consolation to her family, they said yesterday. "She always had a smile on her face," said her father,...Tags: Police Investigations, Assault, Sexual Assault, Central Islip, Crimes
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Burning the midnight oil
Shawna VanNess is a news manager for Newsday.com.Several metro-area bookstores will be open at midnight Friday to deliver the first copies of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" to anxious readers. But buyers beware-- book sellers warn that many copies from their first shipment are earmarked for...Tags: Road Transportation, Commack, Walt Whitman, Harry Potter, Barnes & Noble Incorporated
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Port Jefferson Station
Beginnings: The area was first known as Comsewogue, which in the language of the Setalcott Indians means a place where several paths come together. The first white resident was William Tooker, who by 1750 was living in a house that still stands on Sheep...Tags: Town of Brookhaven, Long Island Rail Road, Port Jefferson, Stanford White, Maurice Richard
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Patents - 1/12/04
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued these patents to inventors in Nassau and Suffolk. Method, apparatus and program for delivery and display of information from dynamic and static data sources Patent No. 6,647,410 Inventors: Scimone; Stephen J....Tags: Manhasset, Brooklyn (New York City), Ronkonkoma, Invention and Innovation, Synthetics and Plastics
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Patents - 3/1/04
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued these patents to inventors in Nassau and Suffolk. Collecting data in a batch mode in a wireless communications network with impeded communication Patent No. 6,675,203 Inventors: Herrod; Alan (Farmingville,...Tags: Town of Brookhaven, Hewlett, Port Jefferson, Ronkonkoma, Invention and Innovation
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Nesconset
STAFF WRITERThe sprawling hamlet of Nesconset has attracted many younger families in recent years, real estate agents and residents say. As a result, school bus stops are loaded with children and block parties have become increasingly popular, note Linda Weinstein...Tags: Real Estate, Long Island Rail Road, Ronkonkoma, State Budgets, Real Estate Agents
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The 'best gift'
Newsday Staff WriterDawn Ritchie's day begins at 5 a.m. with the clankety-clank of her daughter's bed rails. It is still dark outside, but the sound is the unofficial alarm clock that begins the daily ritual of care she provides for 7-year-old Samantha, who has cerebral...Tags: Society, Health and Safety at School, Medicaid, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Private Health Care
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