Spotlight

Helping Hands, a Huntington Station nonprofit, runs its annual Best First Day program each August, an initiative designed to equip Huntington residents facing economic challenges with backpacks and crucial school supplies.

Patchogue-Medford High School senior Rithika Sivapokaran was selected as a member of the prestigious 2023 Bezos Scholars Program.

Expectant moms met the staff who will help deliver their babies and also talked with other moms-to-be.

As the director of External and Legislative Affairs for AT&T Services, Paris-Campbell is a highly visible community advocate with close ties to government officials and other Long Island leaders.

Vincent Ammirati, a long-time Long Island volunteer fireman, has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Firefighter’s Home skilled-nursing facility.

West Babylon-based Federation of Organizations held its third annual Nine & Dine Golf Outing last month.

The auditions are open to children ages 6 to 15 with at least two years of dance training.

“NYPD Detective Joseph Paolillo Way” is now displayed in his honor.

The Handler Hope Foundation is hosting a celebration to honor the staff of Huntington Hospital’s 1 North cancer center.

Among the more than 60 acts that performed were big-named bands like Hot Tuna, Phil Lesh & Friends, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Dave Mason and many more.

The event brings together athletes, outdoor enthusiasts, and activists for either a leisure paddle, or a kayak, stand up paddle board, and canoe competition.

Town residents who purchase a ticket and donate at least two nonperishable food items will receive one free admission per ticket holder to the exhibition.

Urban Edge Properties, owner and operator of Sunrise Mall in Massapequa, hosted the fourth annual AFSP Blue Angel Car Show.

The event is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Sunday, July 30 at the Huntington Crescent Club.

The students were athletic standouts, scored high in classroom performance and were committed to local community service.

The event raised funds for the Winters Center for Autism which opened last June.

The Hofstra alums are the only college students from the U.S. to be invited to the international showcase.

The Youth Bureau recently received dozens of prom dresses, suits, shoes and accessories donated by Islip High School students, faculty and residents.

The event is aimed at bringing awareness to the disease and to raise funds to support the National Scleroderma Foundation’s mission.

Sugar kelp removes nitrogen from coastal waters and is used as a natural fertilizer.

The historic Gillette House was built at the end of the Civil War by Capt. Charles Gillette for his wife, Phoebe Edwards and family.