Isabella Weber was one of 10 winners in this week’s drawing of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s ‘Get a Shot to Make Your Future’ initiative, which rewards 12- to 17-year-olds for getting vaccinated against COVID-19.
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Stop & Shop’s Food for Friends campaign raised more than $2 million for its 12 regional food bank partners, breaking all previous years’ donation records.
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Hosted by the Museum of American Armor, the parade will feature an operational collection of tanks and other historic military vehicles.
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The museum, the former home of Robert Townsend, who was a member of George Washington’s Culper Spy Ring, is opening a new education annex to expand its learning experiences.
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The Allied Foundation Diaper Bank held a special event last week to celebrate the distribution of 1 million diapers donated to 40,000 low-income families across Long Island and the region since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Friends of the Bay and the Town of Oyster Bay are hosting a Diamondback Terrapin Monitoring and Beach Cleanup Day at Centre Island Beach in Bayville.
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The free festival held on Main Street in downtown Riverhead features live music, artists, street performers, vendors, local craft beverages and wine, and activities for all ages.
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A section of Boulevard Avenue was named Samuel Ballton Way to honor the former slave who became a successful cucumber farmer and was known as the “Pickle King.”
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The carnival, presented by Law Enforcement Against Drugs, runs from Tuesday, June 22 through Sunday, June 27 and is open from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 12 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
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Living historians will portray President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Britain’s Winston Churchill, and Soviet Russia’s Joseph Stalin in the museum’s World War II enactment presented on Saturday, June 19 and Sunday, June 20.
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The program serves the communities and schools of Nassau and Suffolk counties to provide learning experiences about the world of astronomy.
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Fifth Street in East Meadow has been renamed for Joseph Hatzelman, a FDNY firefighter who died last year of a 9/11-related illness.
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The new beer is called Heckscher Park Helles, sold with four different labels featuring historic photos of the town. Proceeds from the sales of the new brew, available at select restaurants and bars in Huntington, will go directly to the 1653 Foundation.
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The six-week program, to be held at three town parks, is open to children in kindergarten through seventh grade.
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The Shakespeare favorite will be presented outdoors by EastLine Theatre at Freeport’s Waterfront Park at 3 p.m. on Sunday, June 20.
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The DEC’s annual Outdoors Day celebrations feature free, family-friendly recreation activities throughout the state.
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Despite shrinking revenues and other challenges, there are many ways businesses can still give back to their communities, without breaking the bank.
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More than 5,500 athletes and coaches from all 50 states and the Caribbean will compete in the 2022 USA Games in Orlando.
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The weekly arts festival takes place every Saturday from Memorial Day Weekend through Halloween at Kennedy Plaza in the center of town.
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Five 6th-graders from the New Hyde Park Road School, whose team was called “Futuristic Illusionists” worked on the challenge of building a colony to sustain life on Mars. They took second place in the national competition, earning the school $5,000 and the team of students won $1,000.
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Westbury gains a new downtown cultural gathering place and will enable Westbury Arts to expand its arts and cultural programming, helping to further Westbury’s goal of becoming one of Long Island’s most arts-centric communities.
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