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Blue plastic ribbons are tied high on the trees and utility poles in downtown Providence, at Narragansett Pier, at Mackerel Cove in Jamestown and in Portsmouth's Island Park -- all marking the height of the storm surge from the Hurricane of 1938. Seventy years ago tomorrow, the great hurricane sped up the East Coast, wreaking havoc along the way before slamming hard into New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island. About 700 people died, including 400 in Rhode Island, all caught unawares by the...

By Ambrose Clancy A plan to turn 110,000 underwater acres in Peconic and Gardiner bays into thousands of private shellfish farms is facing opposition from some baymen as well as a leading environmental group that is worried the bays might become industrialized. Four years ago the state Legislature passed a bill transferring the vast bay bottom acreage to Suffolk County, instructing the county to establish a shellfish aquaculture leasing program. Currently, a simple grant from the state for...

By Claude Solnik Stony Brook University Medical Center on Thursday celebrated the completion of the first phase of its $300 million hospital revitalization project with a ribbon cutting ushering in what school and hospital officials described as a new era for the institution. The project, which began in 2002, includes 154,000 square feet of new construction and 48,000 square feet of renovation of the 28- year-old facility. Stony Brook University President Shirley Strum Kenny dubbed the...

NEW YORK, Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Residents of three New York villages are a major step closer to having a real choice for their cable television service, thanks to newly approved agreements authorizing Verizon to offer its FiOS TV service, delivered over the most advanced fiber-optic network straight to customers' homes. The villages of New Hempstead in Rockland County, Hempstead in Nassau County and Kenmore in Erie County all recently granted video franchises to Verizon, paving the way...

By Ambrose Clancy It's been a long flight with delays. You finally land at night and disembark at an unfamiliar airport. Fortunately, you've booked a room at a hotel that's only a five-minute cab ride away. You and your companion claim your bags and go looking for a taxi in the pouring rain. The cab line is across a road at the far end of the terminal with no supervisor; in fact, no one's in charge at all. When you tell the first driver in line where you're going and ask him how much it...

By PHYLLIS SPEIDELL SUFFOLK East Suffolk High School alumni may gather only every other year for a reunion, but the school that nurtured them like a mother is never far from their minds. "This is a special place," said James E. Atkinson, who came from his home in Silver Spring, Md., to reunite with his friends from the class of 1955. The old school is being renewed into a community recreation center. "They should never have closed this and it should have been named for W.L. Turner, the...

1858 Aug. 7, Page 2 The Quincy Patriot THE CUSHMAN MONUMENT. The completion of the Cushman monument at Plymouth is to be celebrated on the 16th of September next, the anniversary of the departure of the Mayflower from Plymouth, England. ...The skill and large bones of the pilgrim were found, where they had been buried about one hundred and sixty-seven years; and at his side were remains supposed to be those of his wife, Mary (Allerton), who died Nov. 28th, 1699, being the last survivor of...

MELVILLE, N.Y., Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Gentiva Health Services, Inc. , the nation's leading provider of comprehensive home health services, plans to expand its home health services to three Certificate of Need (CON) counties surrounding Charleston, SC with the announcement today that it has acquired Hospice of Charleston. Hospice of Charleston is a not-for-profit homecare company that provides hospice services, as well as home health, in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. Gentiva will expand...

By Alison Snyder Worldwide delivery for DHL, Nassau Girl Scouts Delivery company DHL and the Girl Scouts of Nassau County partnered to ship 35,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies to troops overseas. Local law enforcement protected the precious cargo: the Nassau County Police Department, Port Authority Police Department and New York City Police Department provided an escort as the cookies were transported from the Girl Scouts of Nassau County headquarters to the DHL facility at JFK...

By Mitchell Freedman, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Jul. 30--The failure of some of Long Island's ocean beaches to build up with sand this year has local officials and residents concerned that powerful winter storms could sweep beachfront houses out to sea and cause widespread flooding. That worst-case scenario is being looked at because the natural buildup of sand has been interrupted, possibly by stronger-than-normal wave action in the ocean. Consequently, the typical ebb and flow of sand that...