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LI wine growers agree: 2008's weather was a challenge
Kenneth Vaglio took no chances. After a growing season plagued by frost, hail, heavy rains and wide temperature swings, the general manager of Vineyard 48 in Cutchogue decided this month to begin harvesting ...
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Hey ... Get Lost
In a corn maze that is. There are several corn mazes across Long Island. The little ones will enjoy finding their way through a daytime maze, while those hardier souls will have fun getting lost in a nighttime ...
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LI farmers worry over loss of workers
Well over half of Long Island 's farmers are having trouble keeping their workers, and 84 percent think they will have difficulty keeping their workforce over the next three years.
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Horse cruelty sparks SPCA campaign
A week after five malnourished horses were rescued from a Central Islip stable, the Suffolk County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has launched a campaign to identify other cases of horse ...
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Cops: Li Horses Abused
Five starving horses that a neighbor said had been rescued from one hellhole only to wind up in another were rescued yesterday from a filthy stable behind a Central Islip home.
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Horse Owner Pleads Not Guilty To Abuse Charges
The owner of five maltreated horses rescued from a property Sunday in Central Islip pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of animal cruelty in Suffolk District Court, not far from where the horses were seized.
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Kindergarten teacher killed in Wading River car crash
A kindergarten teacher heading home with her husband and 23-month-old daughter was killed after a swerving car crashed into the family's sport utility vehicle in Wading River, her father said yesterday.
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Day trip: GREENPORT
The Victorian Lady bed-and-breakfast in Greenport, near the harbor. Spend a few hours in scenic Greenport, and you're bound to feel like you've escaped to a coastal community in Rhode Island , Cape Cod or ...
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Apple picking on Long Island
Trees in Long Island's orchards are laden with apples for picking. Whether you favor sweet Golden Delicious or tart Granny Smith, there's one that will be the apple of your eye.
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Agenda: Martini Challenge, Slow Pig Roast, and Let Food
Martini Challenge Astor Center is hosting the 2008 Classic Martini Challenge. Be there to witness as close to 20 different gin producers go head to head to prove who has the best martini.
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Police arrest nine at Riverhead sobriety checkpoints
Riverhead police arrested nine people at sobriety checkpoints on Saturday night and Sunday morning.
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Grieving friends, family try to make sense of loss
A makeshift memorial for Tuesday's plane crash victims was placed outside police tape in Easton.
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14-year-old found dead in Aquebogue pool
In the latest of a series of pool drownings across Long Island in recent weeks, a 14-year-old boy died Thursday after he was found unconscious in a swimming pool at an Aquebogue home, Riverhead Town Police ...
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'Food of Love' Opens on Long Island July 11
Friday, June 6, 2008; Posted: 1:59 PM - by BWW News Desk This July, two Long Island wineries will serve up FOOD OF LOVE, a light-hearted look at love with words by William Shakespeare and wine by the glass.
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You Looking at Me?
One of a pair of Ospreys I'd photographed since May 2005. Each year they come back to their nest, hoping to start a family and hanging out until fall.
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East End
Reports from county or village police, April 27-May 10. Aquebogue A garage was broken into on Sunup Trail May 1; a toolbox valued at $100 was taken.
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Aquebogue pair make appeal so they can move into home
"But we have to pay the taxes on it" Henry and Melissa Silverman went to the state office building in Hauppauge yesterday with an engineer, an architect, a lawyer, a lengthy PowerPoint presentation and six years of frustration. via Newsday.com
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More women realize they are happy to be single
"These women were doing all the things that were setting themselves up for a satisfying life" More women are singularly contented Many older women are living their lives with a single-minded enthusiasm. via Newsday.com
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Area accommodations: North Fork inns, hotels and bed & breakfasts
Here's a look at a number of North Fork accommodations, separated by town. Rooms are double occupancy unless otherwise noted. via Newsday.com
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NY Dept. Bans Alcohol After Apparatus Wreck
"I have a CC [case report] number" Mar. 15--The Riverhead Fire Department has gone dry. The department's commissioners banned alcohol from their firehouses following what police say was a drunken driving accident last month in which a Fire ... via FireHouse.com
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