Highlights
Beginnings: Named in 1868 for Bernard J. Calvert, the hamlet's first postmaster, Calverton was essentially a farming community carved out of marshland. Earlier, it was called Baiting Hollow Station after the railroad came in 1844 and, alternately, as Hulse's Turnout, indicating the point travelers turned north to Hulses' place in Wading River. The Indians called it Conungum or Kanungum, meaning "fixed line'' or "boundary.''
Photo: Canoe Lake in Calverton
Photo: Canoe Lake in Calverton
Beginnings: Named in 1868 for Bernard J. Calvert, the hamlet's first postmaster, Calverton was essentially a farming community carved out of marshland. Earlier, it was called Baiting Hollow Station after the railroad came in 1844 and, alternately, as Hulse's Turnout, indicating the point travelers turned north to Hulses' place in Wading River. The Indians called it Conungum or Kanungum, meaning "fixed line'' or "boundary.''
Photo: Canoe Lake in Calverton
Photo: Canoe Lake in Calverton
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Vietnam voices: Andy McGloughlin
Andy McGloughlin, 60, retired Suffolk County Park Police officer, Calverton Really, 1969 was a lost year of my life. It was the year I served in the Marines in Vietnam. It started when I graduated Mercy High School in Riverhead in 1967, then spent a year... -
Suffolk's Levy names Kent as new chief deputy
Spin CycleSuffolk County Executive Steve Levy has made a dark-horse choice for his new chief deputy -- reaching down into his real estate office to pick its director Christopher Kent, to replace James Morgo, who leaves at month???s end. Kent,......Tags: Local Elections, Public Officials, Government, Society, Michael White
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Riverhead
VOTING 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the Riverhead High School gym. THE BUDGET The school board has proposed a $105,935,599 budget for 2009-10, an increase of $3,439,154 over the current budget of $102,496,445. It is an increase of 3.35 percent. The...Tags: Private Health Care, Government Health Care, Budgets and Budgeting, Colleges and Universities, Academic Progress
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LETTERS
Steve Israel; Joan SchumacherA savings on car deals A possible solution to the domestic auto industry's financial crisis lies in a much more acceptable solution than bailouts ["GM's debt, doubt," News, March 6]. Why not give a federal tax credit, equal to the sales tax on the...Tags: Health Insurance, Barack Obama, Employees, Government Health Care, Bellerose
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Schumer expected to push for Navy's Calverton cleanup
jennifer.smith@newsday.comWorried that a plume of chemical-laden groundwater from the former Navy-owned Grumman property in Calverton will damage the Peconic River, residents and local officials are pressing the Navy to move more quickly to clean up the contamination. Monday, U....Tags: Pollution, Environmental Pollution, Bars and Clubs, Armed Forces, Water
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Where to pick pumpkins
WESTERN SUFFOLK Albert H. Schmitt Family Farms, 6 Bagatelle Rd., Melville PHONE 631-549-1159 WEB schmittsfamilyfarms.com WHEN 9 a.m.-6 p.m. weekends and holidays Colonial Springs Farm, 201 Main Ave., Wheatley Heights PHONE 631-643-4829 WHEN Noon-5 p.m....Tags: Aquebogue, Farms
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