Spotlight

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.

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.

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.

Friends of the Bay and the Town of Oyster Bay are hosting a Diamondback Terrapin Monitoring and Beach Cleanup Day at Centre Island Beach in Bayville.

The new beer is called Heckscher Park Helles, sold with four different labels featuring historic photos of the town. Proceeds from the sales of the new brew, available at select restaurants and bars in Huntington, will go directly to the 1653 Foundation.

The DEC’s annual Outdoors Day celebrations feature free, family-friendly recreation activities throughout the state.

Five 6th-graders from the New Hyde Park Road School, whose team was called “Futuristic Illusionists” worked on the challenge of building a colony to sustain life on Mars. They took second place in the national competition, earning the school $5,000 and the team of students won $1,000.

Westbury gains a new downtown cultural gathering place and will enable Westbury Arts to expand its arts and cultural programming, helping to further Westbury’s goal of becoming one of Long Island’s most arts-centric communities.

All teachers were nominated by their students, who submitted essays at their local Applebee’s explaining how their teacher goes above and beyond for their students.

Oyster Bay Town officials presented Frontline Hero pins to representatives of each department at St. Joseph Hospital and recognized more than 850 healthcare workers.

The American Airpower Museum will add its vintage military aircraft to the Bethpage Air Show at Jones Beach State Park on Memorial Day Weekend.

Each of the participating businesses will donate a portion of their sales to LI Against Domestic Violence.

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, Northwell’s Bernard Robinson worked side-by-side with his team transporting upwards of 100 patients a day, most of them infected with the coronavirus.

Over the past 20 years, the foundation has raised over $32 million and helped thousands of people.

Luca Iallonardi rode his bike 100 miles from the South Street Seaport in Manhattan to Smith Point County Park in Shirley in an event called Bike to the Beach.

Twyla Joseph was on the cover of the magazine that featured a story called “The Lost Year,” chronicling the struggles of virtual learning, anxiety and college selection during the COVID-19 pandemic.