Spotlight

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.

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.