Spotlight

Sponsored by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the New York Water Environment Association, the poster contest theme challenges students to create their own superhero to inspire environmental stewardship.

The family-fun event featured a free youth basketball clinic for 50 Long Island kids.

Joel was presented with a key to the town and the street in front of his motorcycle shop, 20th Century Cycles, was renamed Billy Joel Way.

The event, which was held for the first time since the pandemic, was hosted by the Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Association.

The annual fundraising event is scheduled for 7 p.m. through 11 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 9.

The event is scheduled for noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 14 on the Great Lawn at Babylon Town Hall at 200 East Sunrise Highway in Lindenhurst.

The gala is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 23 at the Westbury Manor.

The donation will support the group’s pollinator project, an effort to replenish the area with plants and flowers that attract bees.

Helping Hands, a Huntington Station nonprofit, runs its annual Best First Day program each August, an initiative designed to equip Huntington residents facing economic challenges with backpacks and crucial school supplies.

Patchogue-Medford High School senior Rithika Sivapokaran was selected as a member of the prestigious 2023 Bezos Scholars Program.

Expectant moms met the staff who will help deliver their babies and also talked with other moms-to-be.

As the director of External and Legislative Affairs for AT&T Services, Paris-Campbell is a highly visible community advocate with close ties to government officials and other Long Island leaders.

Vincent Ammirati, a long-time Long Island volunteer fireman, has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Firefighter’s Home skilled-nursing facility.

West Babylon-based Federation of Organizations held its third annual Nine & Dine Golf Outing last month.

The auditions are open to children ages 6 to 15 with at least two years of dance training.

“NYPD Detective Joseph Paolillo Way” is now displayed in his honor.

The Handler Hope Foundation is hosting a celebration to honor the staff of Huntington Hospital’s 1 North cancer center.

Among the more than 60 acts that performed were big-named bands like Hot Tuna, Phil Lesh & Friends, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Dave Mason and many more.

The event brings together athletes, outdoor enthusiasts, and activists for either a leisure paddle, or a kayak, stand up paddle board, and canoe competition.

Town residents who purchase a ticket and donate at least two nonperishable food items will receive one free admission per ticket holder to the exhibition.

Urban Edge Properties, owner and operator of Sunrise Mall in Massapequa, hosted the fourth annual AFSP Blue Angel Car Show.