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Democrat Rebecca Sanin is running for Suffolk County legislator in the 16th district, challenging incumbent Republican Manuel Esteban. Sanin secured her spot on the ballot after Republicans successfully challenged candidate Sidney Joyner over residency requirements. Sanin served as deputy county executive for five and a Read More …
Dr. Pamela Velastegui, a Centerport education and business professional, is running for Huntington receiver of taxes on the Republican and Conservative lines. A new face in town politics, Velastegui has never run for public office. If she is elected, she hopes to use her school Read More …
Democrat Dr. Eve Meltzer-Krief is running for the Suffolk County Legislature in the 18th District. She calls herself a “fierce advocate for policies that help advance the health and well-being of children.” “Our families and our children are really just facing a whole variety of really Read More …
Suffolk County Legis. Stephanie Bontempi, R-Huntington, who is completing her first two-year term in the 18th district, is running for re-election this year. The former elementary school teacher immigrated to the United States from Sweden when she was in her 20s and has been a Read More …
Theresa Mari, a Centerport resident, is running for a seat on the Huntington Town Board on the Republican line. The Hofstra University Law School graduate has been a practicing attorney for the past 34 years, first in business law and now mostly in family and Read More …
Don McKay, the Town of Huntington’s former director of parks and recreation, is running for a Town Board seat on the Democratic and Working Families party lines. The lifelong Town of Huntington resident was raised in Northport and now lives in Dix Hills. He has Read More …
Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty’s Young Professionals Network recently brought in $35,000 for the Daniel Gale Foundation at its inaugural fundraising event. The new young professionals group formed just a few months ago and has already created lots of buzz, according to one of the Read More …
When the founders of Cinema Arts Centre first got Huntington residents together to watch independent films in 1973, moviegoers would bring their own chairs to a local dance studio and plop them on the floor facing a bedsheet hanging on the wall, where the films Read More …
The Huntington Highway Department has acquired a milling machine that will allow town workers to properly prepare roads for repaving, says Andre Sorrentino, highway department supervisor. Contractors have been milling the town’s roads for repavement in past years. But with the town’s $400,000 purchase, funded Read More …
The Town of Huntington is the birthplace of the United States’ first published African American poet, and Preservation Long Island is determined for local residents to know his name: Jupiter Hammon. That’s why the nonprofit organization, dedicated to preserving and educating about Long Island history, Read More …