Students from Mineola Middle School collected nearly 9,000 pounds of electronics during the school’s eWaste Drive. Recycling electronic waste keeps it from winding up in landfills.
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Island Harvest Food Bank was awarded a $30,000 grant to advance its Kids Weekend Backpack Feeding program, which provides food for kids who rely on their school’s breakfast and lunch programs but don’t have enough to eat on weekends.
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NHL Hall of Famer and founder of the Companions in Courage Foundation Pat LaFontaine will help honor some of the leaders in youth sports on Long Island at the event on Thursday, Nov. 21.
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The canopy will have more than 6,100 solar panels with a generation capacity of 2.38 megawatts of clean, renewable solar energy.
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Islander fans were thrilled to meet Tori, a 3-month-old Labrador Retriever puppy who will be trained to become a service dog to assist a military veteran or first responder with disabilities.
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The new 17,000-square-foot facility on Carleton Avenue in Central Islip will have more kennels and more viewing rooms.
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A series of mountain biking and hiking trails has been forged in Port Washington by volunteers from the nonprofit Concerned Long Island Mountain Bicyclists (C.L.I.M.B.).
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The 71,500-square-foot facility has 114 beds and each room of the new hospital includes patient, family and healthcare provider areas.
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A new dog park in Bayville was unveiled Wednesday as part of Oyster Bay’s dog-friendly parks program.
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Trail Supporter Patches were first introduced in 2007 as a way to raise money to maintain state trails.
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The Town of Smithtown received a $500,000 grant to help advance downtown revitalization efforts in Kings Park.
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The Toys for Tots program is the nation’s largest holiday gift drive for children, distributing an average of 18 million toys to 7 million less fortunate children annually.
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Joannie Hugues started JT’s Law Foundation in order to help prevent food choking incidents through education, training and workshops.
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Organizers of the annual celebration were scrambling to find a new title sponsor when Blue Point stepped in.
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Sunny, a yellow labrador, joined the Viscardi School’s staff back in June thanks to the Guide Dog Foundation and its Smithtown-based sister organization America’s VetDogs.
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A Freeport-based nonprofit that promotes reading and literacy marked a major milestone last weekend.
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The money raised at the annual event will go towards professional development for the institute’s workforce.
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While the renewal fee has been scrapped, plans to issue new license plates featuring the iconic Montauk Lighthouse are still moving forward as planned.
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Peconic Bay Medical Center received its largest individual donation ever during the hospital’s annual Benefit in Black & White at Westhampton Country Club.
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Forty Panera Bread restaurants owned and operated by Doherty Enterprises, including 31 in Nassau and Suffolk, will donate 20 percent of qualifying delivery and pick-up orders to benefit the nonprofit.
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Island Harvest Food Bank set the Guinness World Record for the longest line of hunger-relief packages, the Hauppauge-based organization announced Friday.
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