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• Rescue equipment gift to benefit boaters

  association of Long Island bay constables is donating underwater rescue equipment to four towns to try to prevent deaths in boating accidents like the one last July Fourth in which three children drowned.Supported by Joy Treanor, whose 11-year-old daughter, 5/21/13 Read more »

• Willetts, Balkam help Smithtown East end West Islip's run

  county championships and 11 consecutive appearances in the county final.In the jungle, the mighty jungle that is Class A Long Island lacrosse, the Lion sleeps tonight."This is huge for our program and huge for our town to beat West Islip twice in one season,'' 5/21/13 Read more »

• Assembly Dems question Cuomo's LIPA plan

  PSEG contractors would not be subject to inspection of their books by the regulator, unlike LIPA and PSEG.DPS-Long Island's annual review of PSEG's emergency response plan doesn't give the regulator the power to order a change in the plan or sanction any failure 5/21/13 Read more »

• LIers head to Oklahoma to aid tornado victims

  "I can't just sit here and do nothing. I have to do something."Also en route to the area Tuesday -- and calling in from Long Island MacArthur Airport -- was Joan Broderick, 61, an associate professor of psychology at Stony Brook University and a Red Cross 5/21/13 Read more »

• HIA business trade show this Thursday

  Hauppauge Industrial Association's annual trade show -- one of the largest business to business events on Long Island -- will take place this Thursday.The 25th annual show will take place at Suffolk Community College's Brentwood campus from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 5/21/13 Read more »

Around the web

• LI university student accused of drug possession

  say they found a large cache of drugs in a Stony Brook University dorm room after responding to a fire alarm at the Long Island school . No fire was found. But officials say authorities discovered marijuana, hallucinogens and drug paraphernalia inside a senior's 5:46 AM from San Francisco Chronicle Read more »

• Brand New Single Family Homes - North Bellmore

  Beechwood Organization and Michael Dubb, Long Island’s premier residential home builder, are proud to announce their latest Nassau County residential community, Country Pointe at North Bellmore. This is a unique opportunity for homebuyers to fulfill their 4:39 AM from PRWeb Read more »

• Long Island OTBs Might Get VLT Betting

  suggestions that's out there'' is to permit the Nassau and Suffolk OTB corporations to each manage a VLT operation on Long Island. Precisely where or how many VLT devices would be allowed was not disclosed. The plan comes as Gov. Andrew Cuomo is pushing an 5/21/13 from Blood Horse Read more »

• Adelphi Sponsoring Emergency Management Bioterrorism Training for First Responders and Health Professionals

  Island, NY) Adelphi University’s Center for Health Innovation is the sponsoring agency for an upcoming FREE bioterrorism class. The class will be held on Monday, July 29 from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the university’s Hauppauge Center location at 55 Kennedy 5/21/13 from NewsLI.com Read more »

• The Printed Page: Tour the Unsurprisingly Mod, Pristine Digs of Knoll's CEO

  Philip Galanes on Shelter Island, the artsier-than-the-Hamptons community plopped between the North and South Forks of Long Island. The team's primary design objective was emphasize to the "light and sky and water" with a large open dining room, and a "new, 5/21/13 from Curbed Read more »