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Construction Begins On $27M Project To Improve Connectivity From LIE To Shopping Areas, Parks Construction Begins On $27M Project To Improve Connectivity From LIE To Shopping Areas, Parks
Construction Begins On $27M Project To Improve Connectivity From LIE To Shopping Areas, Parks Construction is now underway on a $27 million project to provide motorists quicker access from the Long Island Expressway to several shopping and recreation areas. On Thursday, Sept. 15, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that the project to modify Exit 53 has begun. The goal of the project is to improve connectivity from the LIE to shopping, commerce, and recreation on and near Crooked Hill Road. The project will allow motorists to easily access several shopping areas in Commack, industrial areas in Brentwood, Deer Park, and Hauppauge, the Michael J. Grant campus of Suffolk County Community…

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by Nicole Valinote
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COVID-19: Three New Long Island Mass Vaccination Sites To Open COVID-19: Three New Long Island Mass Vaccination Sites To Open
Covid-19: Three New Long Island Mass Vaccination Sites To Open With the federal government continuing to ramp up its distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine in New York, Long Island will soon play home to three new mass vaccination sites. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Monday, March 8 that 10 new mass COVID-19 vaccination sites are being established statewide, including two in Suffolk and one in Nassau. On Long Island, sites are being set up at: Suffolk County Suffolk County Community College on Wicks Road in Brentwood; SUNY Stony Brook Southampton Campus on Tuckahoe Road in Southampton. Nassau County SUNY Old Westbury Clark Center - Gate C …

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by Zak Failla
Lifestyle
Mark Your Calendar: Here's When It Will Be Chocolate Time On Long Island Mark Your Calendar: Here's When It Will Be Chocolate Time On Long Island
Mark Your Calendar: Here's When It Will Be Chocolate Time On Long Island Chocolate triggers the release of endorphins and serotonin and makes people feel good. If that's your experience then head over to the I Love Chocolate Festival on Saturday, June 8 on the Suffolk County Community College campus. Here's where you'll find chocolate covered everything, from pretzels to bacon, strawberries, even crickets, brownies, cupcakes, cookies, pudding, truffles, and fudge. There's more. The festival will have food trucks for lunchtime and vendors will sell items including soaps, body butter, candles, and jewelry. Specialty foods with chocolate for sale that day will inc…

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by Donna Christopher
Obituaries
Former Suffolk County Police Commissioner Dies Former Suffolk County Police Commissioner Dies
Former Suffolk County Police Commissioner Dies Longtime retired Suffolk Police Commissioner Richard Dormer died at his home in Northport. Dormer, 79, died on Sunday, April 21, following a three-year battle with cancer, said the Suffolk County Police Department. Dormer joined the department in July 1963 and was among the first 800 officers in the young department’s history, they said. He was promoted to sergeant in 1970, the department’s 425th member to achieve that rank. Dormer continued to rise through the ranks before retiring as chief in 1993. Dormer returned to the department in January 2004 to serve as commissioner, a post he hel…

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by Kathy Reakes