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Long Beach hosts its first porch festival this spring

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First porch fest looks to 'bring that community feel back'

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NewsdayTV's Doug Geed visits a longtime Baiting Hollow restaurant that's been serving the community for decades — and is now offering homemade pot pies to go.

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West Babylon's Rivers triplets are making history as skiers for Jamaica. One of the triplets will compete in February's Winter Olympics.

West Babylon skier on his way to compete in the Winter Olympics 

Fire officials on Long Island are sounding the alarm, on shortages in both recruitment and retention. NewsdayTV's Virginia Huie reports.

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What to know about Long Island's sidewalk snow cleanup laws. NewsdayTV's Andrew Ehinger reports.

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One young Long Island mother said getting pregnant at 16 has meant putting off plans to go to law school.

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Newsday travel writer Carissa Kellman tries indoor snow tubing at American Dream Mall in New Jersey.

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NewsdayTV's Ken Buffa heads to Peconic Ice Rink to sharpen skates, check out the Zamboni and see what it takes to maintain the rink in this week's LI Works.

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NewsdayTV's Macy Egeland takes a look at the Bald Hill Ski Resort, Long Island's own slope in Farmingville.

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Shaili Soni is a volunteer at the Stony Brook Medicine Food Farmacy who helps patients with food insecurity.

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