Three residents are challenging three longtime incumbents for three-year seats on the West Babylon School Board. The challengers say they believe they have a greater interest in the operations of the schools since they have children in the district. More...
West Babylon SchoolDistrict is proposing a budget that calls for $3.3 million more in spending over the current budget of $81,024,426, and would bring in a 2.96 percent increase in the tax rate if approved by voters, Tuesday, May 15. More...
Three candidates are competing for the two open seats on the Babylon School Board. Incumbents AnneMarie Martino and Thomas Melito are facing newcomer David Galbraith. The trustee vote and budget vote take place Tuesday, May 15, 2007 from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the Babylon Memori... More...
West Gates Elementary students successfully raised hundreds of dollars for the American Heart Association for their annual Jump Rope for Heart event. The school has participated in the special event for the past 10 years. The younger grades focus on their jumping skills wit... More...
The tie-in with Mothers' Day is unintentional yet poignant. The following is part of a plea written by a caring man, a librarian, trying desperately to place a pair of outside cats, now in limbo, not really feral; not completely tame- peripheral pets, soon to be displaced be... More...
Babylon, 24 S. Carll Ave 669-1624 +Arthritis Exercise Program: Mondays, May 14, 21, June 4, 11 18 & 25. $12 pp fee. +A Victorian Tea: Tuesday, May 15 from 7-9 p.m. Samples to taste. Bring your teacup! +For One English Officer: Wednesday, May 16. Call for time. Hear a W... More...
A free orientation session for those interested in becoming a New York State registered Child Day Care Provider through the Little Flower Day Care Network will be held Monday,May 21, 9:45 a.m. to noon at the Brentwood Public Library, Second Avenue and Fourth Street, Brentwoo... More...
West Babylon resident Mary "Mollie" Owens, who immigrated to the United States from Ireland, died March 29, 2007 at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip. She was 95 years old and had lived on Quarter Street in West Babylon for 55 years. More...
For some, the loss of a mother is a sudden thing, the result of an illness or accident that sneaks up, as one poet said, like a bike in the night. For others like me, it is a slow, difficult process brought on by age and the loss of a lifetime in agonizing bits and pieces. T... More...
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