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Farmingdale Trivia Answer: 100 Years, 10 Names
Farmingdale Patch
Jan 30The trivia question last week asked readers to list all the different names Farmingdale State College had over the past 100 years. Congratulations to Dr. Raymond Soluri for correctly guessing 2002 Farmingdale State, 1993 SUNY Farmingdale, 1987 SUNY Col... »
Bethpage Black Named Fifth Toughest Course
Farmingdale Patch
Jan 30Bethpage Black is one of America's 75 toughest courses, according to Golf Digest's January 2012 issue. The Farmingdale course ranked fifth toughest thanks to gruelling uphills and its long-distance pars. The magazine's editors last ranked America's to... »
Credit Union Offers Free Tax Help
Plainview Patch
Jan 30Beginning Wednesday, Bethpage Federal Credit Union will help low- to moderate-income households on Long Island prepare their tax returns for free. For the ninth year, BFCU will offer the government’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program at 12... »
Mangano: Continuing the Fight Against Prescription Drug Abuse
LIPolitics.com
Jan 28The collective efforts of local committees and task forces, who are combating the potentially deadly prescription drug abuse crisis, provides me with confidence that we can stop the abuse of pharmaceuticals. There has been an alarming increase of deadl... »
Brooklyn’s Cablevision Employees Vote to Join CWA
NYConvergence
Jan 27Technicians and dispatchers working for the Brooklyn location of Cablevision voted yeterdayto join the Communications Workers of America. According to Multichannel News, this appears to be the first time employees of the Bethpage, Long Island-based cab... »
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Brooklyn’s Cablevision Employees Vote to Join CWA
NYConvergence
Jan 27Technicians and dispatchers working for the Brooklyn location of Cablevision voted yeterdayto join the Communications Workers of America. According to Multichannel News, this appears to be the first time employees of the Bethpage, Long Island-based cab... »
Will Cablevision Get a Union?
NYConvergence
Jan 20The New York Times took a look recently at attempts by cable installers to bring a union to Bethpage, Long Island-based Cablevision, as the Communications Workers of America is attempting to represent the installers. The Times profiled some of the inst... »
NY Web Performance Group Brings All Up to Speed
NYConvergence.com
Dec 05by Al Barbarino A NY web developer with a need for Internet speed is dishing out web performance secrets to a group of his eager peers. Sergey Chernyshev, 35, a developer with Manhattan-based TruTV, founded the New York Web Performance Group in April 2... »
$10,000 Food Equity Grant Goes to Sustainable Long Island
Edible East End
Nov 09The Angela and Scott Jaggar Foundation has awarded Sustainable Long Island a $10,000 grant in support of the organization’s food equity program. The money will support continued research toward the development of a Food System Report Card, which is mea... »
