On May 11, the Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Disaster & Recovery Resilience announced the availability of low-interest federal disaster loans to small businesses and private nonprofit (PNP) organizations in New York to offset economic losses caused by freeze, ice floes, and tidal surge incidents between Jan. 26 and February 23. Suffolk, Nassau, and […]

Crime Stoppers and the Suffolk County Police Department (SCPD) seek the public’s help in locating the person in question in connection with criminal mischief in Babylon Village. The incident took place on April 21, at approximately 1:20 a.m., at a health and beauty spa known as Spalax, located at 38 East Main Street. Video surveillance […]

May arrives at the Great South Bay with familiar signs of the season—the days are longer and friendlier, boats are returning to the water, and communities are easing into the peaceable rhythm of late spring. It’s a time when neighbors reconnect, when outdoor spaces fill again, and when our calendars begin to hum with the […]

Choppy waters loom ahead for West Marine as talks about the boating and fishing retail supply mega-giant heading for Chapter 11 appear imminent. The nautical empire has over 230 stores across the country, with nine locations in New York state, five of which are on Long Island, including Huntington, Patchogue, Port Washington, Riverhead, and West […]

May 9 & 10 West Sayville Jr. Fire Department Mother’s Day Plant Sale Purchase a beautiful plant for Mom, and benefit the West Sayville Jr. Fire Department while doing so. The sale takes place on Saturday from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. and on Sunday from 9 a.m. to noon at the West Sayville Fire Department, 80 […]

When artist Rosi Barry passed away in May 2025, she left behind a large body of work—photographs, paintings, and sketches—full of beauty, natural wonder, and whimsy. She also left behind a community of artists who loved her and her work and wanted to pay tribute to her in the best way they could. In early February, […]

A golden hue lit the flora blue at Mama Farm land and the surrounding acres as Rowan Loren dug up purple, white-tipped tulips, coaxed from seed on the three-quarter-acreage she and partner Christian Roarke rent in Brookhaven. Roarke was working the soil nearby to grow the specialty herbs he sells to Flynn McGarry, the owner […]

A walk past Argyle Lake in Babylon after the blizzards revealed the mute swans were not going anywhere—massive white birds, with their reddish-orange bills and black face patches, gliding through half-frozen water as if it was just another day at the park.  “This was the hardest winter for them,” says Nancy Viscardi-Ricigliano, an amateur wildlife […]

Disney’s Wonderful World of Color was a staple Sunday night television program on NBC from 1960 to 1969. I got to hand it to the Argyle Theatre for providing the same carousel of color, but this time it was live on their stage. Disney’s Descendants: The Musical is just one more of their vivid productions. […]

Luna waited patiently for 916 days. She was surrendered to the Brookhaven Animal Shelter in 2023 because her owner could no longer care for her. Before that, she spent time in a New York City shelter before being transferred to Brookhaven. She watched as so many of her friends found their new families, but alas, […]

A number of Long Island parents gathered at Babylon Town Hall Park in Lindenhurst on April 29 and placed approximately 50 memorial rocks to remember lost loved ones on Fentanyl Awareness Day. Babylon Town Supervisor Rich Schaffer, town officials, and parents who lost their children to the opioid crisis gathered to read the names of […]