The Islip Buccaneers varsity football team lost their first home game to the Bayport-Blue Point Phantoms on Thursday, Sept. 14, with a final score of 49-20. A linebacker for the Phantoms …
As citizens of the United States of America, a nation of immigrants, we have an inherent desire to remember our roots and take pride in where we came from. With so much diversity within our town, …
The Islip Public Library meeting room was already half filled with people streaming in, long before the start of the Historical Society of Islip Hamlet’s “Islip’s Bay …
The Islip School District recently recognized numerous exceptional student achievements from fall and winter at the Night of Champions event, held during the board of education meeting. Elementary …
Now celebrating the program’s 10th year, the 2023 USA Football Heart of a Giant Award, presented by Hospital for Special Surgery and the New York Giants, announced the second weekly group …
Occupying the stratum of New York mythology that covers “Goodfellas” and the majority of Martin Scorsese’s career, “A Bronx Tale” is a story whose characters feel at …
Continuing a concert season that has featured one superlative guest artist after another, the Island Symphony Orchestra will perform a program that celebrates women in classical music. Special guest …
A sea of pink filled the Bay Shore Marina on Tuesday, Aug. 8; the rosy hue did not come from the Great South Bay, but rather from members of the West Islip Breast Cancer Coalition for Long Island as …
“Think of the 135 remaining hostages who are sitting in darkness on this holiday of light. We need to be their light,” said Rabbi Shimon Stillerman. Despite the wind and the rain …
The East Islip football just won the Long Island championship and recently added more laurels to their trophy case. Sebastian Regis, East Islip’s gritty hard-nosed defensive tackle and …
East Islip traveled to Brook Street in West Sayville for the only meeting against the Golden Flashes this season in varsity boys basketball. This scuffle on the hardcourt was a non-league …
For more than 30 years, it was hard to turn on the radio and not hear a Burt Bacharach song. Working first with lyricist Hal David and later Carole Bayer Sager, who became Bacharach’s …
On Friday, Dec. 8, Emmanuel Church in Great River hosted its first Christmas celebration. Inside, people sat together at large round tables or stood around chatting. There was a small hot …
Long Island has a vibrant open-mic poetry scene, known colloquially as “the scene” by those who are part of the grassroots movement sprouting up in disparate enclaves throughout the area. …
The River Wear flows past the walk next to the Durham School Boat House, off the Milburn Gate Bridge. A grey heron was perched nearby on twisted, gnarly branches, and the proliferation of large, …
Bayview Elementary School in West Islip kicks off PARP with Dr. Seuss. PARP is a NYS PTA program and stands for Pick A Reading Partner. The PARP program is designed to promote the love of reading in …
When East Islip resident Bea Huste-Petersen learned that her sons Jack and Eric had autism nearly 20 years ago, she did not know what to make of it. At the time, the developmental disorder was not as …
It’s a mystery why everyone in the Bay Shore area has not visited the remarkable Gibson-Mack-Holt House, where the Bay Shore Historical Society held their annual open house on Saturday, June 3, …
Dozens of toys were picked up from Islip Town Hall and delivered to the Salvation Army, for distribution to the organization’s Angel Tree recipients. Town of Islip employees went above and …
