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The initiative is part of Suffolk County’s Housing Our Homeless Heroes program.

Splashes of Hope is a nonprofit group dedicated to creating art to transform spaces, enrich environments and facilitate healing.

Mount Sinai’s Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment is holding a video premiere fundraiser to benefit the center’s mission.

The 2021 Charity Sporting Clay Outing is scheduled for Monday, Oct. 18 at Suffolk County Skeet, Trap and Sporting Clays at 165 Gerard Road in Yaphank.

The town grant, made possible by federal CARES Act funding, will reimburse the United Way for the purchase and distribution of 500 portable, medical-grade HEPA air filtration devices.

The winner of the contest will have their photo or artwork reproduced as the 2022 Arbor Day Poster to commemorate the holiday.

The Association for Mental Health and Wellness is hosting its 11th Annual Chili Cook-Off & Pop-Up Restaurant on Saturday, Oct. 16 at its headquarters at 939 Johnson Ave.

Hempstead Town officials joined members of East Meadow American Legion Post #1082, friends and neighbors at the ceremony that renamed Lancaster Street as Army Spec 4 John G. Glassey Street.

The event, presented by Engel Burman and managed by the Greater Long Island Road Running Club, included a half-mile swim in Oyster Bay Harbor, a 12.3K hilly bike ride through Oyster Bay and Oyster Bay Cove, and a 5K run past Mill Neck and Brookville.

Originally scheduled to take place at the Country Fair Entertainment Park in Medford next weekend, Paws for a Cause will be held online at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 4.

The outdoor fundraising event will be held from 4 p.m.to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 25 at Project MOST’s Community Learning Center at the Neighborhood House at 92 Three Mile Harbor Road in East Hampton.

Jennifer Beitchman, the owner/photographer of Peanut and Pip Photography, has won first place in the children’s category of The Portrait Masters competition.

The new amenities are part of ongoing renovations to Roberto Clemente Park.

The tropical-inspired Palm Tree Music Festival will be held on Sunday, August 29 at Gabreski Airport.

The Seaford Memorial Gazebo in Washington Avenue Park had been destroyed last summer during Tropical Storm Isaias.

The event, scheduled for Saturday, August 14 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., is hosted by Q.B. Generational Change and the MLK Community Center.

Exterminators in Suffolk County will be prevented from killing honey bees without first calling a beekeeper to safely remove them.

Organizers are asking people to bring new and boxed school supplies to any of Islip Town’s drop-off locations by August 20.

The theme of the show will be “Country Lifestyle Fashion,” with a runway show to celebrate Scottish, Native American and outdoor lifestyle and culture.

Half Hollow Hills East senior Soledad Jean and Newfield High School senior Lorenzo Selini were recently honored with the Butch Dellecave Award.

For more than three decades, FCA’s Mission Moment Scholarship Fund has aimed to guide local youth toward successful futures by enabling at-risk individuals to pursue higher education and improve their lives by matching them with donors.