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Brooke Bateman, senior scientist with the National Audubon Society, leads the virtual birding session on Wednesday, May 27 from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. via Zoom as part of Ward Melville Heritage Organization’s Master Class Series.

Soon after the Town of North Hempstead announced it was hosting drive-in movies at its parks next week, the town reported that all spaces had been filled and it was “actively working to find new locations.”

The Suffolk County Police Benevolent Association bought 80 cases of hand sanitizer from Baiting Hollow distillery Long Island Spirits to be distributed to more than 1,000 Suffolk officers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.

Former “Real Housewives” star Bethenny Frankel’s BStrong Foundation has donated thousands of surgical masks and hundreds of protective body suits to the three hospitals in the Stony Brook Hospital Network.

Since the middle of March, The INN has given out 9,571 lunches to 5,000 people and 811 pantry bags of groceries to families.

Towne Cleaners owner La Young Trantrum and her sons Leland and Charles have been making the masks and given many of them to nurses at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset and to St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center in Smithtown.

Enlisting the help of Late Night Chauffeurs, PinkTie volunteers will come to people’s doorsteps to pick up food donations and then deliver them to a handful of food pantries in Nassau and Suffolk counties.

Two Greenport businesses have teamed up to make and donate thousands of protective face shields to hospitals and nursing homes.

The ‘We Are Open’ Facebook page provides listings of more than 1,000 small businesses that are still operating and offering takeout, delivery or online services.

The museum’s educational series on TikTok, hosted by Educator Tom, attracted more than 1.5 million views in a week and features 50 videos on the history of ingenuity and innovation in aerospace.