Thomas ConoscentiEconomist

Thomas Conoscenti of Nesconset recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the nonprofit Italian Board of Guardians based on his "professional achievements and commitment to Italian-American welfare organizations." Conoscenti is president of Thomas Conoscenti & Associates, a full-service economic consulting firm in Nesconset, and chief economist of the Association for a Better Long Island and the Long Island Contractors' Association. He also has taught economics and management at New York University, LIU Post and the New York Institute of Technology.

NewsdayTV's Doug Geed visits two wineries and a fish market, and then it's time for holiday cheer, with a visit to a bakery and poinsettia greenhouses. Credit: Randee Dadonna

Out East with Doug Geed: Wine harvests, a fish market, baked treats and poinsettias NewsdayTV's Doug Geed visits two wineries and a fish market, and then it's time for holiday cheer, with a visit to a bakery and poinsettia greenhouses.

NewsdayTV's Doug Geed visits two wineries and a fish market, and then it's time for holiday cheer, with a visit to a bakery and poinsettia greenhouses. Credit: Randee Dadonna

Out East with Doug Geed: Wine harvests, a fish market, baked treats and poinsettias NewsdayTV's Doug Geed visits two wineries and a fish market, and then it's time for holiday cheer, with a visit to a bakery and poinsettia greenhouses.

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