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Beginnings: For decades before Jan. 16, 1890, this small community was part of what was known as ``east of Islip.'' The citizens obviously didn't want much change: The official name bestowed on that date was East Islip. The area was part of the original 51,000-acre purchase from the Secatogues by Islip founder William Nicoll.
Beginnings: For decades before Jan. 16, 1890, this small community was part of what was known as ``east of Islip.'' The citizens obviously didn't want much change: The official name bestowed on that date was East Islip. The area was part of the original 51,000-acre purchase from the Secatogues by Islip founder William Nicoll.
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FRIDAY GREAT EXPECTATIONS Port Jefferson goes back in time for the Charles Dickens Festival. Street performers, trolley rides, house tours, an old-fashioned marketplace and a Beggar's Ball round out the event. 4:30-10:30 p.m. today, 10 a.m.-10:30 p.m....Tags: George Bush, Five Towns College, Theater, Cell Phones, Charles Dickens
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Long Island Flute Club concerts details
steve.parks@newsday.com; STEVE PARKS AND JUDY RAIAIn these humbug economic times, maybe you don't give a toot about the holidays. But the Long Island Flute Club does. This weekend it'll give thousands of toots. All free. The club's Holiday Flute Choir continues a tradition it began in the '90s as part...Tags: Long Island University, Stony Brook University, Holidays, Tilles Center, C.W. Post Campus
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Theater: Holiday shows on Long Island
WHAT A holiday medley at the three Broadhollow venues WHEN|WHERE "Annie Warbucks," opens 4 p.m. tomorrow, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, through Dec. 31, at the BayWay Arts Center, 265 E. Main St., East Islip; "The Best Christmas Present Ever," opens 4 p.m....Tags: Holidays, Christmas, Elmont, Theater, Long Island
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Brian Foley plans postelection fundraiser
CAMPAIGN FUNDING Foley still filling war chest If you didn't contribute to state Sen.-elect Brian Foley's campaign before his whopping upset in a multimillion-dollar slugfest with 36-year veteran Caesar Trunzo, you can still jump on the bandwagon. Foley...Tags: Executive Branch, David A. Paterson, Primaries, Newspaper and Magazine, State Budgets
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Anniversaries: November 30, 2008
50th MARILYN AND JACK MCCARTHY of Oakdale celebrated Sept. 6 at Willow Valley Resort in Pennsylvania with family. Jack is retired from the New York City Fire Department. Marilyn is a retired secretary with the Connetquot School District. They have four...Tags: People, Melville, Melbourne, Cape Canaveral, Manhattan (New York City)
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ISLIP: Caught trying to steal soda, cops say
The choice of a new generation turned out to be the wrong choice for an alleged burglar. A 45-year-old East Islip man was arrested early yesterday after he was caught breaking into a Pepsi machine in a faculty lounge at Islip High School, Suffolk...Tags: Police Arrests, Police, Central Islip
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November 28: Spitzer's moral highground, school tax cap
School tax cap Andrea Vecchio's op-ed "School tax needs a cap" [Opinion, Nov. 21], makes a sobering point. If her watchdog group, East Islip Tax Pac, had been listened to 20 years ago, countless Long Islanders would not be feeling the pains of recession...Tags: State Budgets, Eliot Spitzer
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Clothes calls: What the artists say about style
steve.parks@newsday.com; JUDY RAIAPeople make fashion statements every day. But some artists make a living on statements about clothing or those who design and market what we wear. "Fashion has often been linked to art," says Karen Shaw, curator of "Fashion Forward," the new exhibit at...Tags: Natural Disasters, Earthquakes, Arts, Clothing and Textiles Industry, Stony Brook University
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New Life Center helps men released from prison
erik.german@newsday.comAfter five years in prison, Robert Houlahan returned to Suffolk in 2006, broke and alone. His worldly assets amounted to a pair of jail-issued sneakers, the brown sweater on his back and a few dollar bills crushed into the pocket of his jeans. "I didn'...Tags: New York, Long Island, Prisons
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Cops: Burglar caught at Islip High
john.valenti@newsday.comThe choice of a new generation turned out to be the wrong choice for an alleged burglar. A 45-year-old East Islip man was arrested early Wednesday after he was caught inside a faculty lounge at Islip High School breaking into a Pepsi machine, Suffolk...Tags: Police Arrests, Police, Central Islip
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East Islip loses in Class AA semifinal
chris.mascaro@newsday.comThe undefeated run for the East Islip girls soccer team has ended. The Redmen lost to Section V's Fairport, 2-0, in a Class AA state semifinal Friday morning. Fairport's Kacie Bednarcyk opened the scoring in the 16th minute of the first half on an assist...Tags: John Jay
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Coast Guard volunteer from East Islip killed in crash
An East Islip man who headed a South Shore Coast Guard Auxiliary unit was fatally injured in a North Lindenhurst head-on collision. James P. Conlon, 47, of Keswick Drive, commander of Auxiliary Flotilla 01-04 died at Nassau County University Hospital...Tags: Injuries, Great South Bay, Police, North Lindenhurst, Lindenhurst (Babylon, New York)
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