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The first white men known to have seen Northport were Dutch sailors exploring the Long Island coast in 1650. The harbor has continued to play a pivotal role in local history ever since.
Photo: Main Street, Northport (Photo from "Long Island To-day" by Frederick Ruther, 1909)
Photo: Main Street, Northport (Photo from "Long Island To-day" by Frederick Ruther, 1909)
The first white men known to have seen Northport were Dutch sailors exploring the Long Island coast in 1650. The harbor has continued to play a pivotal role in local history ever since.
Photo: Main Street, Northport (Photo from "Long Island To-day" by Frederick Ruther, 1909)
Photo: Main Street, Northport (Photo from "Long Island To-day" by Frederick Ruther, 1909)
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Pols: On Cuomo LIPA plan, key questions remain
NewsdayAfter a day poring over new legislation to revamp LIPA, elected officials Tuesday gave Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's latest plan a better-than-even chance of passing, but said key questions remain. Several state and local officials expressed disappointment the...Tags: Electricity Production and Distribution, Internal Revenue Service, Andrew Cuomo, Executive Branch, Politics
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Temporary shellfishing ban starts Friday
NewsdayHarvesting of shellfish and carnivorous gastropods will be temporarily banned on almost 1,400 acres of water off Long Island, starting at sunrise Friday, state officials said Thursday. Saxitoxin, a marine biotoxin that can be dangerous to people, has...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Seafood, Long Island, Foods and Beverages
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School Notebook: LI mock trial champs
NewsdayWilliam Floyd High School, once again, is the mock trial champ of Long Island. A 15-student team from the Mastic Beach school beat Our Lady of Mercy Academy in Syosset last month to win the 2013 Long Island Regional Championship at the Suffolk County...Tags: Harvard University, Science and Technology, Central Islip, Mastic Beach, Teachers
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Leonilda Giedraitis-Svilas, VA doctor, dies
NewsdayAs a Russian-born doctor, Leonilda Giedraitis-Svilas cared for people in refugee camps after World War II. She would later treat American war veterans on Long Island as a longtime physician at the Northport VA Medical Center. She died Friday at her East...Tags: Queens (New York City), Cheshire, Hospitals and Clinics, Manhattan (New York City), Germany
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Dr. Tiffany L. Chan seeing patients at Wilmer Eye Institute in Bel Air
Tiffany L. Chan, O.D., an instructor of ophthalmology at Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine, is seeing patients at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Bel Air (formerly Parris-Castoro Eye Care Center). Chan specializes in visual function and...Tags: Blindness, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Davis
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West Nile Virus Reported On Long Island
PIX11.com | @akadennewsBreak out the bug spray. West Nile Virus is back on Long Island. "The confirmation of West Nile virus in a mosquito pool indicates that the virus is actively circulating within the mosquito population," said Dr. James Tomarken, the Commissioner of...Tags: Long Island, Fire Island, West Nile Virus, Viral Diseases and Infections, Atlantique
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Over 200 Cases Of Whooping Cough Reported In Suffolk County
PIX11.com / @dalfaroneParents, if your children attend Suffolk County schools, know that four times as many students are coming down with whooping cough this year over last year. More than 200 cases have been reported in Suffolk County alone, and it's highly contagious....Tags: Disease Prevention, Coughing, Suffolk County (New York), Diseases and Illnesses, WPIX
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A list of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack victims
A list of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack victims from data compiled by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. The overall death toll from the attacks stands at 2,977 -- including 2,753 killed as a result of the attacks at the World Trade Center, 184...Tags: Sodexho Alliance SA, Maxwell, Wakefield (Sussex, Virginia), Salem (Salem, Virginia), Regional Authority
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Long Island School Evacuated After Bomb Threat
Police are investigating after a bomb threat at a Long Island middle school prompted a mass evacuation Thursday morning.
According to authorities, students and staff from East Northport Middle School were evacuated some time before 12 p.m. after the...Tags: Suffolk County (New York), Long Island, Unrest, Conflicts and War, East Northport
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Cops: Elderly School Bus Driver Kissed Young Student
wpix.comA Long Island bus driver is in police custody after authorities say he kissed a middle school student he was driving home from school. According to Suffolk County police, the incident occurred on Nov. 19 when 73-year-old Michael Dibella, an employee of...Tags: Suffolk County (New York), Long Island, WPIX, Elwood (Huntington, New York), East Northport
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