As Chris O'Mara celebrates the fifth anniversary of her gourmet shop Village Cheese Merchant, she is preparing more new additions to keep growing the small business.
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Lindbergh Flight Liftoff Recognition Starts To Soar
On an unmarked, pothole-riddled road that abuts parking lots and the back of commercial buildings lies a monument that is equally unassuming, given the significance of the event it memorializes. The approximately 5.5 x 8.5-foot concrete relief sculpture marks where Charles Lindbergh and his plane, christened the Spirit of St. Louis, first went airborne en route to Paris, the first nonstop transAtlantic flight in 1927.
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RVC Works Weathers Pandemic Woes To Foster Connection
After riding a proverbial roller coaster the past two years due to fears surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, RVC Works now has a wide range of members working from the co-working space.
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Jazz Band Makes Sounds Of Love At East Meadow Library
The town's public library was rich with the sounds of love songs on Valentine's Day. The Paul Joseph Trio returned to the newly renovated library Monday to perform a program of tunes by Richard Rodgers, emphasizing the American composer's romantic-themed numbers.
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Samanea New York To Debut Multiple New Tenants In 2022
Samanea New York is gearing up for a busy 2022, with multiple new tenants poised to open for business during the first half of the year and beyond.
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Insieme Wines is a wine-making facility with a tasting room that opened in Oceanside's industrial zone in December 2021. (Photo: The Marketry)
Industrial Winery in Oceanside Brings Variety to Long Island
Located on the edge of Oceanside's industrial zone, Insieme Wines was abuzz Sunday afternoon with patrons sipping reds and whites while seated at high-top tables lined alongside oak barrels stacked on racks.
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Series on Roosevelt Field and Simon Property Group
My four-part series on the strategies that Roosevelt Field, one of the top-tier malls in the nation on Long Island, and its owner Simon Property Group, the largest owner of U.S. malls, have adopted to compete in general and in the age of Amazon in particular.
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A five-time martial arts champion, Christian Defiris strikes a pose in ECF Elite Martial Arts & Fitness in Oceanside, his gym that he relocated from Lynbrook in August. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)
Martial Arts Gym Owner Fights Through Pandemic Woes
After absorbing a financial gut punch from the COVID-19 pandemic and shutdowns at his martial arts gym in Lynbrook, Christian Defiris dusted himself off and personally built a new facility in Oceanside.
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Mo Cassara, a CBS Sports analyst and former Hofstra men's basketball coach, and his wife Elisa DiStefano, the entertainment director for News 12 Long Island, announced on Instagram earlier this month that their renamed establishment, The Point, will reopen in April. (Photo: Courtesy Mo Cassara/Siobhan Becker)
Long Island Media Couple To Reopen Restaurant Come Spring
A Long Island media couple will wait to reopen their newly renovated restaurant in Point Lookout until exactly two years after shuttering it amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The East Meadow Library opened on Sept. 23 after a major reconstruction at the building on Front Street. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)
Renovated East Meadow Library Holds 'Soft' Opening
A ground-floor community room, a reconfigured entrance hall and basement, and a reading garden are among the new features of the East Meadow Library.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi, left, News 12 anchor and Grand Marshal Carol Silva and Congressman Peter King marched down Main Street in Farmingdale during the village's annual St. Patrick's Day parade on Sunday, March 11, 2018. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)
News 12's Carol Silva Has 'Fabulous' Farmingdale Grand Marshal Day
Carol Silva is no stranger to parades. The longtime News 12 Long Island anchor used to stand along Fifth Avenue in Manhattan with her Irish mother for many St. Patrick’s Day parades while growing up in Hicksville. As a
Sports talk radio legend Mike Francesa grew up on Oswego Avenue in East Atlantic Beach and attended Long Beach Catholic Regional School, where he played CYO basketball. (Photo: John Filo/CBS)
Mike Francesa Remembers His Long Beach Roots
Rick Evrard’s enduring childhood memories of Mike Francesa are the outside jump shots the future radio star repeatedly hit on basketball courts at Nevada and Brookline avenues.
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Former Equity Trader Ian Linde Finds Happiness in Rock Memorabilia
Fresh from the “I Worked on Wall Street But It Left Me Unfulfilled” file, meet Ian Linde, late of the $40 billion Jeffries Group and a successful equity trader with Lehman Brothers-Barclays before that.
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Students perform research in a lab at the Entrepreneurship & Technology Innovation Center at New York Institute of Technology in Old Westbury. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)
Tech Incubators Hatching Startups Across Long Island
The state’s Start-Up NY program may be a bit of a dud, but that hasn’t slowed the pace of other university-based programs that seek to support and commercialize innovation from students, staff and the region’s sundry entrepreneurs.
Read More50 Schools Now Call PNC Their 'Official' Bank
PNC Financial Services Group has been named the official bank of the University of Kentucky, its 50th such partnership with a college or university.
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Investor to Seacoast: Board Elections Show 'Profound Dissatisfaction'
Another shot has been fired in the ongoing feud between an investor group and Seacoast Banking Corp. of Florida in Stuart.
Read MoreBluetooth Beacons Start to Connect Banks with Retailers
Bluetooth beacons — small nightlight-sized devices that can communicate with a mobile app as shoppers move throughout a store — may have the same potential for bank branches as they do for mega-retailers like Target Corp.
Read MoreLong Island Lutheran Kickline Coach Transitions from Ballet to Hip-hop
Melissa Essigman’s dance background is exclusively in ballet. Yet the first-year head coach of Long Island Lutheran High School’s varsity kickline team is starting to make waves in the world of hip-hop.
Read MoreMLK Center Ceremony Celebrates Many ‘Firsts’
Less than a year ago, Anissa Moore was preparing for spring break, ready to hop on a JetBlue flight to take her far from Nassau Community College, where she has been a communications professor for the past 19 years.
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‘Force Awakens’ Sparks Advanced Ticket Sales in Long Beach
Sightings of Darth Vader-clad moviegoers are expected when “The Force Awakens,” the seventh in the “Star Wars” saga of movies, opens Friday at more than 4,100 theaters across the nation, including Long Beach Cinema 4.
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