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ATHLETES WILL BE AT THEIR BEST, SHARPENING FOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN FINLAND APRIL 3-8; ATHLETES 35-90+ TO COMPETE STANDOUTS EXPECTED TO ASSAULT RECORDS INCLUDE PHILIPPA RASCHKER, W65, 2-TIME SULLIVAN FINALIST (ONLY MASTER EVER IN SULLIVAN FINALS JOINED OPEN STARS TIM TEBOW, APOLO OHNO, LEBRON JAMES, AND MICHAEL PHELPS); WORLD CLASS JAZZ MUSICIAN NOLAN SHAHEED, M60, PLAYED LEAD FOR DIZZIE GILLESPIE, STEVIE WONDER, ARETHA FRANKLIN, MARVIN GAYE, IS WORLD CHAMPION DISTANCE RUNNER;...

Veritas Villages of America, Inc., a newly formed real estate development and property management group headquartered in Philadelphia, has announced that its first residential community for veterans and their families is being developed in Smithtown, Long Island near the Northport VA Medical Center. Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) November 11, 2011 Mission Statement In Latin, Veritas means truth. In English, it means residential communities that meet the life care needs, physical and emotional,...

An Alabama man with a bullet wound in his shoulder told police he shot himself by accident while sleeping with a 40-caliber handgun.Capt. Lloyd Baker of the Tuscaloosa Metro Homicide Unit told The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News the man's life was not in danger.The man, 34, whose name was not reported, lives in an apartment complex in Northport in northwestern Alabama. He said he was sleeping with the gun in his bed and must have accidentally pulled the trigger as he slept.

SEARSPORT - The Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition will celebrate the autumn season with an Edible-Medicinal Plant Walk 9 a.m.-noon Saturday, Oct. 4, on Sears Island. Lao Gillam will lead this third and last walk in the coalition's series of Sears Island plant walks. During the morning, participants will learn how to stave off or treat colds and-or flu using herbs. Gillam also will discuss recipes with elderberries, acorns and cattails as ingredients; and he'll point out other utilitarian...

By Dave Marcus, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Jul. 22--Eric Mendelsohn steps out of a blue minivan and gazes at a house in Northport. It has a wide front porch, bay windows and delicately peeling paint. Perfect. He leaves a note telling the homeowner he wants it. Back in the van, he peers out the windshield at Colonials, Victorians, split-levels. He still needs three more houses. Also a set of watercolor paintings, a globe and an ambulance. Mendelsohn, who teaches filmmaking at Columbia...

By Marta Hepler Drahos, The Record-Eagle, Traverse City, Mich. Jul. 18--NORTHPORT -- It may be a presidential election year, but the yard signs and bumper stickers cropping up in Northport these days are for an even more rancorous contest: the Jets vs. the Sharks. The rival gangs of "West Side Story" will face off July 24-Aug. 3 as part of the Northport Community Arts Center's performance series. The Oscar-winning musical is one of several the arts center has presented over the years....

NEW YORK, July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Residents of the Long Island villages of Rockville Centre and Northport 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 Rockville Centre Village Board granted a video franchise to Verizon Monday (June 30), paving the way for video choice in the...

DANUM 68, a 390-twenty equivalent unit (TEU) container ship, one of the largest of its kind to be made in Malaysia made its maiden voyage to Northport, Port Klang, recently. "Danum 68 is the biggest container ship in our group and is deployed in the domestic trade linking Miri Port, Port Klang, Kuching and Kota Kinabalu." said Capt Ting Hien Liong, general manager of Shin Yang Shipping Group, which owns the vessel. He said the deployment of the bigger ship to serve the trade between ports in...

By Dave Marcus, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Apr. 29--When he applied to college last fall, Matthew DiGirolamo played the odds. The Northport High School senior set his sights on three Ivy League schools: Brown, Dartmouth and Harvard. He applied early to Harvard because early applicants have a higher acceptance rate than regular applicants. Harvard's early admissions program is also nonbinding, so anyone who gets in can hold out for admissions and financial aid offers from other schools. Guidance...