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Port Washington School Superintendent Charged With DWI After Crash Seriously Injures Motorist Port Washington School Superintendent Charged With DWI After Crash Seriously Injures Motorist
Port Washington School Superintendent Charged With DWI After Crash Seriously Injures Motorist A Long Island school superintendent has bee accused of driving while intoxicated after a crash on Long Island seriously injured a motorist. Suffolk County Police said the incident occurred at about 9:05 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 24, in Sayville, at the intersection of Railroad Avenue and Depot Street. Michael Hynes, age 53, of Sayville and the superintendent of the Port Washington Union Free School DIstrict, was driving a 2019 Honda Civic northbound on Railroad Avenue when he attempted to turn left onto Depot Street, according to Suffolk County Police.  His vehicle then collided with a southb…

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by Joe Lombardi
Weather
How Much Snow Did You Get? Here Are Totals From Nassau County How Much Snow Did You Get? Here Are Totals From Nassau County
How Much Snow Did You Get? Here Are Totals From Nassau County Here's a look at snowfall totals reported by the National Weathe Service from throughout the region from the storm system that swept through Thursday, Nov. 21 into Friday, Nov. 22. New York New York City Central Park 1.86 in 0940 AM 11/22 AWS Nassau County Oyster Bay 2.25 in 0930 AM 11/22 CWOP Locust Valley 0.3 E 2.21 in 0910 AM 11/22 COCORAHS Albertson 0.2 SSE 2.09 in 0730 AM 11/22 COCORAHS Syosset 2.08 in 0800 AM 11/22 COOP Herricks 1.92 in 0830 AM 11/22 COCORAHS Port Washington 0.8 N 1.84 in 0719 AM 11/22 COCORAHS Massapequa 1.1 SE 1.80 in 0700 AM 11/22 COCORAHS Malverne 0.5 SE…

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by Daily Voice
Lifestyle
Best Catered Thanksgiving Dinners Found At These Nassau County Restaurants, Foodies Say Best Catered Thanksgiving Dinners Found At These Nassau County Restaurants, Foodies Say
Best Catered Thanksgiving Dinners Found At These Nassau County Restaurants, Foodies Say Pie-ning to feast without the fuss? Thyme is running out to place your Thanksgiving order with these a-maize-ing Long Island restaurants. Entrepreneur Michael McCormick just isn’t in the cooking mood this year, but still yearns for a scrumptious holiday meal. So he turned to his fellow foodies to find Long Island’s best Thanksgiving caterers. “Concern is it’s going to be a bland, flavorless, low seasoning, small portion, overpriced disaster,” McCormick wrote on the Long Island Foodies Facebook group. “Just want the best meal I don’t have to cook on the table. Where can I get a bird and som…

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by Michael Mashburn
Lifestyle
LI Native Melissa Joan Hart Shares Touching Connection To Late 'Cassius The Crocodile' LI Native Melissa Joan Hart Shares Touching Connection To Late 'Cassius The Crocodile'
LI Native Melissa Joan Hart Shares Touching Connection To Late 'Cassius The Crocodile' New York native Melissa Joan Hart revealed a special connection to the late Cassius the Crocodile. The saltwater croc, who measured 18 feet long and weighed nearly 2,870 pounds, died Saturday, Nov. 2, at an estimated age of 120, Marineland Melanesia in Australia announced on Facebook. Cassius received the Guinness World Record as the largest living captive crocodile in 2011. Marineland Melanesia said he was “very old and believed to be living beyond the years of a wild croc.” “It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of our beloved mate Cassius,” the organization said. “He was mor…

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by Michael Mashburn
Police & Fire
LI Native Melissa Joan Hart Touts Relief Fund After ‘Devastating’ Fire Damages Businesses LI Native Melissa Joan Hart Touts Relief Fund After ‘Devastating’ Fire Damages Businesses
LI Native Melissa Joan Hart Touts Relief Fund After ‘Devastating’ Fire Damages Businesses Actress Melissa Joan Hart is showing some love for her hometown on Long Island following a fire that damaged several businesses. The “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” star, who grew up in Sayville, took to Instagram to share a relief fund created to help the half dozen businesses that were damaged in the blaze along the beloved Main Street on Friday, Oct. 25. “The town I grew up in, Sayville, New York, had a devastating fire yesterday and many small businesses suffered big losses,” the 48-year-old Hart wrote. “I'm donating to the chamber of commerce to help them get back on their feet hopefully i…

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by Michael Mashburn
News
23-Year-Old Hit, Killed By LIRR Train 23-Year-Old Hit, Killed By LIRR Train
23-Year-Old Hit, Killed By Lirr Train A 23-year-old Long Island man was killed after he was struck by a Long Island Railroad train. According to David Steckel with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Christopher Reitzel, of Medford, was hit by LIRR Train 64 at 11 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 10, west of the Sayville Train station when he was on the tracks without authorization. EMS transported Reitzel to Southside Hospital in Bay Shore, where he was pronounced dead, MTA said. Following the incident, LIRR said the Montauk Branch service was suspended between Oakdale and Sayville until 12:20 p.m. No criminality is suspected.&nbs…

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by Kathy Reakes