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Work will begin in the summer to transfer properties in Riverhead and Brookhaven towns whose private wells have tested positive for contaminants.

Head of the Harbor trustees will vote Wednesday on bills considering a property tax exemption for fire and ambulance company volunteers and a change to village firearms law.

The jobless rate was 5.9% in January 2021. 

The upgrades, including new sidewalks and a picnic area, had been planned for years and were completed last year, town officials said.

In Great Neck Plaza, incumbent Ted Rosen is set to go against his 2020 challenger Leonard N. Katz. Elsewhere on Long Island, voters will choose new trustees, mayors and judges or fill vacant seats.

A small piece of history from the original Penn Station has returned to greet LIRR commuters at the Moynihan Train Hall, which connects to Penn, six decades after the station was demolished.

The crash occurred on Sound Avenue, east of Twomey Avenue, at about 7:50 p.m. Sunday, Riverhead Town police said.

Police said the boys were aged 12, 13, 14 and 15, and two were transported to Stony Brook University Hospital for treatment of minor injuries.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone and other officials said distributing and using the free tests is vital to keeping COVID-19 under control. 

People living in ZIP codes with the 50 lowest vaccination rates on LI were 39.4% more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 during the recent omicron surge than residents of the ZIP codes with the 50 highest vaccination rates.

The schools, including Jewish yeshivas, may have to demonstrate they meet state academic requirements in multiple ways, such as attaining recognition from accrediting agencies, under revised regulations proposed by state education officials. 

High temps will stay in the high 50s to low 60s this week before topping off with a high of 68 on Friday, the National Weather Service said.

Experts say the highly infectious nature of the omicron variant, combined with protection against serious illness from vaccines that were only starting to become available early last winter, explain why the decline is so much sharper this year than last.

8Well, a fitness studio in downtown Huntington, will focus on the eight dimensions of wellness: physical, intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual, vocational, financial and environmental, owners said.

"Every day ... another building, another memory of my childhood" and more dead civilians, said Father Vladyslav Budash, who has spent much of the past two weeks watching the war on YouTube and in pictures sent by his parents trapped in his hometown.

Snow showers are moving through parts of LI but after a cold night, the mercury should rise to around 50, along with sunshine, and even warmer as the week goes on, forecasters say.

Two new reports filed by state-appointed monitors spell out more than a dozen recent accomplishments in those school districts, as well as continuing problems in terms of student achievement, building repairs and leadership.

The victim was struck as he walked early Sunday on Mastic Road just north of Cumberland Street in Mastic, according to police.

Before supplies from Long Island can be trucked throughout Ukraine from a depot in the city of Lviv, one route stops at a Coney Island auto garage operating as a makeshift warehouse and an international shipper in New Jersey. Then, there are flights to a Polish airport and clandestine drives across the border.

At low tide the water can drop to less than 3 feet deep, leading to some boaters scraping bottom or running aground, said the town's waterways management supervisor.