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Book a direct flight from MacArthur Airport to experience baseball at its most intimate, with autographs and seats you'd never score in July.

Florida spring training getaway from LI

Show your Irish pride on Long Island with St. Patrick's Day parades throughout March.

LI St. Patrick's Day parades list

Explore our interactive guide to weekend fun, including family-friendly events, concerts, festivals and more.

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Legos are in bloom this spring at the gardens.

Giant Lego sculptures coming to Old Westbury Gardens

Explore the 36th annual flower and garden show at Hicks Nurseries, featuring game-themed gardens and a giant Jenga centerpiece in Westbury.

Bring on the games at Hicks Nurseries' annual flower show

Restaurants are adding classes that take their chefs out from behind closed kitchen doors and into the dining room.

Take a cooking class at these LI restaurants

For two days, gamers at the annual LI Tabletop Gaming Expo play games, attend panels and workshops and compete in tournaments.

Thousands battle each other at everything from D&D and Catan to a 'live dungeon' at expo

"Movies & Musicals with Mor" is coming to Manes Studio Theatre of Long Island in Lindenhurst.

Top movie soundtracks 'Wicked,' 'Saturday Night Fever' come to Lindenhurst stage

Former WFAN hosts bring their show to Wantagh in April

BT and Sal bringing live show to Mulcahy's

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The 36th annual flower and garden show at Hicks Nurseries in Westbury has something for everyone. NewsdayTV's Elisa DiStefano reports.

Check out the annual flower and garden show at Hicks Nurseries

NewsdayTV Ken Buffa's grabs his buzz saw and heads to Bullfrogs Woodworks to check out the new tools that go into modern woodworking.

LI Works: Ken goes against the grain at Bullfrogs Woodworks

The region's waterways were a common means of escape from slavery, in addition to land-based networks of the Underground Railroad.

Enslaved people used LI waterways as pathway to freedom

Newsday food writer Marie Elena Martinez visits Rocco's Tacos in Huntington Station to learn about their all-you-can-eat tacos deal.

Tacos and more all-you-can-eat deals on LI

NewsdayTV's Doug Geed visits with a man who has been collecting, refurbishing and reselling antique brass cash registers.

Out East: Cha-Ching! Restoring antique brass cash registers

NewsdayTV's Elisa DiStefano visits Find Your Balanced Life, a women-only gym in East Northport.

It's a gym for women, built by a woman

The Nassau County executive discussed a variety of topics during his address, including no tax hikes, countywide safety and cooperation with ICE. NewsdayTV political analyst Joye Brown discusses takeaways from the speech.

Blakeman delivers State of the County address

On the latest episode of "Sarra Sounds Off," Newsday's Gregg Sarra recaps the cheerleading championships in Binghamton, Jonathan Ruban talks with three LUHI girls basketball players who made the McDonald's All-American team and Jared Valluzzi has the plays of the week.

Sarra Sounds Off, Ep. 22: Cheer champs; LUHI All-Americans

The SCPD commissioner says the department does "not get involved in immigration enforcement ever, period." NewsdayTV's Andrew Ehinger reports.

ICE using Suffolk police parking lots across precincts

Demonstrators in Brookhaven Town are calling for environmental solutions and a meeting with officials over the landfill's future. NewsdayTV's Andrew Ehinger reports.

Brookhaven landfill: Town seeks 5-year operating extension, drawing residents' ire

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