Highlights
Beginnings: To its earliest settlers, the area was known as West Deer Park. But in the 1880s, the area was renamed Wyandance after a local brickyard, the Wyandance Brick and Terra Cotta Corp. It soon reverted to West Deer Park when the yard burned down in 1894. However, residents adopted Wyandanch, one of many spellings of the great Indian sachem's name, in 1903 to avoid confusion with neighboring Deer Park. Meanwhile, Wheatley Heights got its name from a 1913 housing development promoted by Bellerose businessman William Geiger.
Beginnings: To its earliest settlers, the area was known as West Deer Park. But in the 1880s, the area was renamed Wyandance after a local brickyard, the Wyandance Brick and Terra Cotta Corp. It soon reverted to West Deer Park when the yard burned down in 1894. However, residents adopted Wyandanch, one of many spellings of the great Indian sachem's name, in 1903 to avoid confusion with neighboring Deer Park. Meanwhile, Wheatley Heights got its name from a 1913 housing development promoted by Bellerose businessman William Geiger.
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Community turns out to help church hit by fire in '07
Last year ended, for Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Church in Wyandanch, with a devastating fire that destroyed two trailers housing food and clothing donations, and the church rectory. Almost a year later, parishioners gathered in the church parking...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Religious Texts, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Marc Gellman
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School officials: Poorer districts would be hit harder
john.hildebrand@newsday.comStunned Long Island school officials say Gov. David A. Paterson's proposed midyear aid cuts would fall heaviest on low- and middle-income districts, despite the governor's insistence his plan is progressive. Overall, Island schools would lose $139...Tags: Executive Branch, Government, National Government, Budgets and Budgeting, Port Jefferson
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Wyandanch teen shot in the back while fleeing gunman
Special to NewsdayA Wyandanch teen trying to flee on his bicycle from a gunman was shot in the back Wednesday less than a block from his home, Suffolk police said. Joseph Jenkins, 17, who will be a senior this fall at Wyandanch Memorial High School, was in stable...Tags: Police, Assault, Police Investigations, Crimes
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How LI voted
Based on polling place communities. Data provided by the Nassau and Suffolk boards of elections. Community; DEMOCRATS (Clinton / Obama ); REPUBLICANS (McCain / Romney / Huckabee / Paul NASSAU Albertson 68% 30% 59% 26% 6% 5% Atlantic Beach 74 25 60 27...Tags: Old Bethpage, Babylon (Suffolk, New York), North Bellmore, Shirley, Malverne
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Fire at Wyandanch church called unusual arson
bart.jones@newsday.comSuffolk County police Wednesday labeled as arson the Dec. 30 fire that destroyed part of one of the poorest Roman Catholic parishes on Long Island, but also said it was not a typical arson case. A fire-damaged video surveillance camera retrieved by...Tags: Demographics, Fires, Arson, Christianity, Crimes
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Police: Intruders targeted Wyandanch, Coram homes
christine.armario@newsday.comThe lives of two Suffolk families were violently disrupted by armed intruders who broke into their usually quiet homes in separate incidents, held guns to their heads, and took off with clothes, a watch and guns, police and witnesses said. The attacks,...Tags: Police, Coram, Firearms, Defense, Theft
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Matthew R. Hollister, has mother in Wyandanch
Defense Department announcementArmy National Guard Staff Sgt. Matthew R. Hollister has been mobilized and activated for a future deployment to an undisclosed overseas location in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Defense Department announced Aug. 6. He is the son of Mary Ellen...Tags: Armed Forces, Wars and Interventions, Justice System, Iraq War, Defense
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Javier Quinones of Wyandanch, West Islip
Defense Department announcementCoast Guard Seaman Apprentice Javier Quinones, son of Margarita and Octavio Quinones of Wyandanch, recently graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Recruit Training Center in Cape May, N. J., the Defense Department announced Oct. 18. Quinones is a 2005...Tags: Physical Fitness, Health and Safety at School, Religious Leaders, Justice System, West Islip
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School district budget proposals
Officials have released proposed district-by-district budgets for the next academic year. Property tax estimates and enrollment figures, plus their percentage increase or decrease from the previous year, also are included in the chart below. District /...Tags: East Norwich, South Huntington, Island Park, Budgets and Budgeting, Locust Valley
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Too close for comfort
Newsday Staff WriterBabylon town officials recently started using a mapping system to enforce a county residency restriction law on registered sex offenders - and promptly discovered the vast majority of offenders in town are living closer than allowed by law to places where...Tags: Babylon (Suffolk, New York), Sex, Crimes, New York, North Babylon
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Angels on Wheels
Newsday Staff WriterIt started with a feast. Last November, Newsday reporter Jennifer Smith and I went to cover the Peace Makers' annual holiday dinner in Wyandanch for a Thanksgiving Day story. At their motorcycle clubhouse on Straight Path, a hearty meal was provided for...Tags: Society, Holidays
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Eye on special ed students
Newsday Staff WriterDeclaring that too many special-education students get shortchanged, the state for the first time yesterday ordered a dozen Long Island school districts and dozens more statewide to redouble their efforts to raise those students' test scores and ensure...Tags: Hempstead (Nassau, New York), Examinations, Uniondale, Teaching and Learning, Freeport
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