Louise Walker, the head of First Northern Bank in Dixon, Calif., will be wearing an additional hat over the next year — chair of the California Bankers Association.
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.
Read MoreLBFD Members Rebuild Vandalized 9/11 Memorial
Bill Murphy, who built and maintained a September 11 memorial on Oceanview yards from his California Street home, noticed early Saturday that the metal frame that holds a flagpole was torn from the memorial’s base and thrown in the street.
Read MoreBeyond the Lens
At the same time Apple unveiled new or upgraded iPhones, iPads and other products to the usual press fanfare last week, Canon U.S.A. held its largest technology showcase, an event it stages at cities worldwide only every five years.
Read MoreRiding the Wave of Vinyl’s Revival
When Alex Abrash landed a job after college in 1984 with a Poughkeepsie company that released classical music on open reel-to-reel tapes, the vinyl record was king of musical formats, and a new technology, a compact disc, was poised to dethrone it.
Read MorePaddleboard Shop Thrives in Babylon
Karen Marvin opened South Shore Paddleboards in May 2014, about a year after she first tried stand-up paddleboarding.
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Crafting Beer-friendly Laws
Since he sold his first keg in March 2009, Greg Martin, co-owner of Long Ireland Brewery in Riverhead, has averaged 25 percent annual growth and 35 percent last year, reflecting the soaring popularity for craft beer across Long Island and New York in recent years.
Steve Smith, left, and Douglas Cambria blow clouds of vapor at their e-cigarette shop and lounge, Xhale Custom Vapors in Ronkonkoma, NY. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)
Xhale: The Starbucks of Vapor Shops
Xhale Custom Vapors is nestled in a nondescript strip mall in Ronkonkoma. But the shop’s interior sports a brown leather couch, sage walls, and cherry wood tables and chairs and glass display cases, a decor designed to distinguish it from hookah bars and head shops.
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Long Island photographer Tom Reuter snapped this image of the Fire Island Lighthouse with his iPhone 6 camera. (Credit Tom Reuter/https://instagram.com/treuter18)
Who Says Smartphone Shutterbugs Don’t Take Photography Seriously?
When Tom Reuter started an Instagram account in 2010, he populated his page, treuter18, with selfies, memes and other self-described worthless items. Last year, though, when his girlfriend, Eva Diaz, an avid photographer, noticed some creative images he took with his smartphone camera, she encouraged him to take photography more seriously.
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James Kirby, 87, and his sister Margaret Kirby Foley, 89, are co-grand marshals of the Kings Park St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Saturday, March 7. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)
Kings Park Honors Octogenarian Siblings in St. Patrick's Day Parade
Octogenarian siblings and longtime Kings Park residents James Kirby, 87, and Margaret Kirby Foley, 89, led a contingent of 120 organizations, including 23 pipe-and-drum bands, as co-grand marshals during the Kings Park St. Patrick’s Day parade.
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The Wantagh American Legion Pipe Band marches in the snow at the John P. Reilly Memorial East Islip St. Patrick's Day parade on Sunday, March 1, 2015. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)
East Islip St. Patrick's Parade Turns 50, Remembers Founder
As the calendar turned to March and heavy snow fell Sunday afternoon, the Ancient Order of Hibernians Division 7 forged ahead undaunted with the annual John P. Reilly Memorial East Islip St. Patrick’s Day parade.
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Proving Art and Commerce Do Mix
Illustrator Claudia Genna sold nearly a dozen pencil drawings of fantasy figures that were included in a group art exhibit at Empire State Studio Tattoo Gallery in Oceanside last fall. “It was awesome,” Genna said of selling nearly all her pieces on display.
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Leonard Bellavia sits in a meeting room at his law practice in Hauppauge, where he had photos of Long Island scenes installed throughout the office. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)
Businesses Use Fine Art Photos to Connect with Clients
The fact that the Mineola law office of Bellavia, Blatt & Crosset represents clients in the automobile industry is reflected in the photos of vintage cars on its walls.
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Babylon residents voiced their opposition and support for a proposed soup kitchen at a local church during a recent meeting of the village’s Zoning Board of Appeals. (Photo courtesy of Flo Siemsen)
Proposed Soup Kitchen Stirs Controversy in Babylon
Some Babylon residents are concerned that a soup kitchen may open at a local church. Kevin Cruz, senior warden at Christ Episcopal Church, proposes to open a food program to feed between 30 to 50 people a week, and the village’s Zoning Board of Appeals is considering the proposal.
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Karen Marvin of Babylon takes to the water on a canal during a day in January when it snowed and the temperatures dropped into the teens. (Credit: Tonya Simpson Photography)
Paddleboarders Take to Water in Winter
Will Connaughton has been a surfer since he was a young boy, but he only took up stand-up paddleboarding five years ago, mainly for exercise and adventure, but also to keep connected to the water.
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