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The Long Island Council of Churches food pantry provides both perishable and non-perishable food items to local families. However, the pantry may have to switch to perishable only if it can’t find a new location to hold its refrigerators and freezers.
Food pantry in Freeport seeks a new location
For months, the Long Island Council of Churches in Freeport has been desperately searching for a new space to operate its food pantry, which provides for needy families in the community. The … more
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The Nassau Library System offers a ‘Techmobile,’ which brings digital access, technology help and library services to patrons who might not otherwise have access to those services. It registered nearly 2 million digital checkouts last year — or more than 5,000 per day.
County libraries meet the future with 1.9 million digital checkouts
Read a book. Listen to a book. But don’t feel like you have to physically pick up the book. more
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Gov. Kathy Hochul, and U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer take a train from Grand Central Madison last month to celebrate the opening of the terminal.
Kathy Hochul orders more LIRR service beginning Monday
Essentially calling the opening of Grand Central Madison in New York's Upper East Side an ongoing process. Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Sunday to not only add Long Island Rail Road trains to Brooklyn during peak hours, but also to lengthen cars on a number of trains that exceeded capacity over the last week. more
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In a heartwarming game of basketball to celebrate and promote inclusion of those of all abilities, the ACDS Thunderbolts, a Special Olympics team, took on the Freeport Chamber of Commerce and the mayor’s office.
Chamber, mayor’s office are no match for the Thunderbolts
he basketball court at the Freeport Recreation Center hosted more than a game Feb. 21. It became the site of community inspiration and celebration.  The Association for Children with Down … more
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The medical facility a great community needs
Things we don’t want in our backyards: incinerators, releasing toxic fumes in the air. Nightclubs, with late-night rooftop music. Prisons, with their high walls and guarded towers. more
Oceanside quarterback Charlie McKee won the Thorp Award last season, given to the top player in Nassau County.
Football camps kicked off Aug. 23
Three months and three weeks after Massapequa, Garden City, Manhasset and Wantagh captured Nassau football championships, all 53 programs in the county started preparing for a new season Aug. 23. more
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Architect’s rendering of Mount Sinai South Nassau’s proposed 60,000 square-foot facility on Wantagh Avenue, to open in 2022.
MSSN plans specialty medicine facility in Wantagh
Mount Sinai South Nassau, in partnership with Mount Sinai Doctors, will completely refurbish a 60,000-square-foot building on Wantagh Avenue and open the state-of-the-art medical facility in 2022. more
Jessica and Edward Dennehy handed out masks they imported themselves in April; altogether, the pair distributed 100,000 masks to front-line workers and first responders
Local businessman to challenge Rice in 4th C.D.
Wantagh businessman Edward Dennehy said that he planned to announce an independent against incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice in the 4th Congressional District race in November. At press time on Monday he said the announcement was to come no later than Thursday. more
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New York can learn a lot from South Korea
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is set to open beaches statewide, including Jones Beach, on Friday. It is a moment we have all eagerly awaited, a symbolic gesture signaling . . . more
The Wantagh Parkway bike trail from Cedar Creek County Park to Jones Beach State Park is one of a handful of such trails in Nassau County. Above, a cyclist on his way to Jones Beach.
Cycling the Wantagh Parkway trail, social distancing-style
Nassau County has fewer than 50 miles of bike trails, compared to New York City, which has 450, and Suffok County, which has 370. So Nassau residents have long had a hard time finding a place to ride … more
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