School Supply Drive now underway
Organizers are asking people to bring new and boxed school supplies to any of Islip Town’s drop-off locations by August 20.
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Author: The Long Island Times
$10K grant from TD Bank helps grow FREEdom Garden
The grant will be used to expand the FREEdom Garden, which provides a work readiness program that gives individuals hands-on agricultural skills that can prepare them for a variety of employment opportunities.
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Syosset student donates gear to sports nonprofit
Since 2013, the effort has added up to more than 10,000 new and gently used sports gear items donated to the nonprofit.
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Beach party fundraiser for Southampton Animal Shelter
The beach party takes place from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Saturday, August 7 on Gin Lane beach.
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Town launches first-ever field hockey camp
Hempstead Town is hosting its first-ever field hockey camp next week at Oceanside Park. The camp kicks off Monday, July 19 and runs through Thursday, July 22.
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Dressed to Kilt fundraiser coming to Mill Neck Manor
The theme of the show will be “Country Lifestyle Fashion,” with a runway show to celebrate Scottish, Native American and outdoor lifestyle and culture.
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NICE Bus launches bike and ride program
NICE (Nassau Inter-County Express) Bus is now outfitting its 60-foot buses with front-end bicycle racks on selected routes.
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Topgolf in Holtsville offers hiring bonuses
The soon-to-open Topgolf entertainment center in Holtsville is seeking to hire staff and offering hiring bonuses of up to $1,000.
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Pride at the Farm celebration held in Yaphank
The June 30 event to celebrate Pride Month was hosted by the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County and its 4-H Youth Development initiative.
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Central Islip beautification earns honors
Members of Central Islip Connect for Change constructed planter boxes and planted flowers at the Central Islip Recreation Center in an effort to spruce up the facility.
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Two high school students win 2021 Dellecave Award
Half Hollow Hills East senior Soledad Jean and Newfield High School senior Lorenzo Selini were recently honored with the Butch Dellecave Award.
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FCA raises more than $100K for scholarships
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.
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PSEG-LI teams up with Island Harvest for summer food drive
The effort, called “Power to Feed Long Island,” will organize food collection at six local supermarkets in July, August and September.
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Vanderbilt offers personalized bricks to support museum
The bricks can be inscribed with up to three lines of 14 characters each to honor someone’s memory, celebrate an important event or mark a birthday or anniversary.
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Docs rock in hospital fundraiser
A band of medical staff from Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital were the stars of a fundraiser last week at the North Fork Road House in Mattituck.
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Milton Avery exhibition at Phillips Southampton
Among the works in the exhibition are three of Avery’s works from the collection of Academy Award-winning actor Peter O’Toole.
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Walt Whitman HS student wins scholarship in vaccination program
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 gives $96,500 to Island Harvest
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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PSEG-LI to sponsor July 4th parade in Old Bethpage
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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Grand opening event for Raynham Hall Museum on July 4th
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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Foundation celebrates donations of 1 million diapers
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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