By greaterlongisland.com | Brian Harmon | 11/8/2024 2:14 PM
The Southampton community is mourning the loss of a cherished school bus driver who leaves behind his wife … Continued
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By greaterlongisland.com | Brian Harmon | 11/8/2024 12:47 PM
A Brooklyn man has been charged in connection with an alleged insurance scam that played out in a … Continued
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By greaterlongisland.com | Brian Harmon | 11/8/2024 11:17 AM
The latest known street takeover on Long Island — one in which a Suffolk cop was assaulted and … Continued
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By greaterlongisland.com | Brian Harmon | 11/7/2024 4:55 PM
The Long Island community has come together to back a 33-year-old Mount Sinai mother in her fight against … Continued
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By greaterlongisland.com | Mike White | 11/7/2024 12:24 PM
South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore has just launched a donor breast milk program to support NICU … Continued
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Nassau County is continuing to refine a phased-in approach for repairing the Shore Road sea wall in Port Washington, officials have confirmed to Nassau County Legislature Minority Leader Delia DeRiggi-Whitton ... Read full Story
By greaterlongisland.com | Brian Harmon | 11/6/2024 2:44 PM
Ollie’s is set to host a grand opening Thursday at its new location in Riverhead. The discount store … Continued
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By greaterlongisland.com | Nick Esposito | 11/6/2024 11:06 AM
The 2024 election results are in. Donald Trump has secured more than 270 electoral votes, defeating Vice President … Continued
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By greaterlongisland.com | Brian Harmon | 11/6/2024 11:01 AM
Animal cruelty police have charged a Manorville woman with animal cruelty for keeping her horse and two dogs … Continued
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By greaterlongisland.com | Brian Harmon | 11/5/2024 5:27 PM
Suffolk County has three of the best 50 high schools in New York for 2025, including both high schools in the Half Hollow Hills Central School District, Niche says in...
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By greaterlongisland.com | Brian Harmon | 11/5/2024 3:20 PM
Greater Long Island shoppers are getting exactly what they want: A Target in East Hampton.
When we polled readers last month asking what business they most wanted to move into...
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By greaterlongisland.com | Staff | 11/5/2024 11:01 AM
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National eyes will be on Long Island this Election Day, with four congressional races that could play a huge role in determining whether the Republicans or the...
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By greaterlongisland.com | Brian Harmon | 11/4/2024 3:19 PM
The governing body for interscholastic athletics in Suffolk County has announced the playoff brackets for the county’s high school football championships.
Section XI said the post-season will kick off Friday...
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By greaterlongisland.com | Brian Harmon | 11/3/2024 2:47 PM
Matt Goncalves — the Indianapolis Colts’ rookie tackle from Manorville — is set to make his NFL starting debut Sunday night on NBC Sunday Night Football against the Minnesota Vikings....
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By greaterlongisland.com | Brian Harmon | 11/2/2024 2:12 PM
For Dominique Maciejka, Paper Doll Vintage Boutique has been more than just a store – it is her life’s work, built from the ground up through determination, sacrifice and love....
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By greaterlongisland.com | Staff | 11/2/2024 1:59 PM
Greaterlongisland.com just racked up a million pageviews in a single month for the second time this year.
More than 780,000 unique visitors flocked to Greater Long Island (GLI) in October...
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By greaterlongisland.com | Mike White | 11/2/2024 1:12 PM
Burger King’s 40-year-run at 32 Montauk Highway in Blue Point came to an abrupt end in October 2023, amid a slew of nationwide closures.
Now, just two years later, a...
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Democrat Minority Leader Delia DeRiggi-Whitton is proud to announce that Glen Cove has received $5 million in state funding to improve the city’s water infrastructure and further protect residents from contaminants in the drinking water supply. ... Read full Story
“After Eric’s betrayal, Harper has landed at a fund dedicated to so-called impact investing in eco-friendly companies, a real-life financial trend that dovetails with a core ‘Industry’ theme: reflexive cynicism toward for-profit institutions that feign social consciousness.” — Alison Herman, Variety, 2 Aug. 2024
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Of the many ways Ferris Bueller feigns illness—that is, pretends to be sick—to avoid going to school in the 1986 comedy film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, arguably the most ingenious involves tucking a mannequin version of himself under the blankets of his bed to fool his family. This method of deception provides not only entertaining hijinks but also clues to the origins of the word feign itself. Today, feign is all about faking it, but it hasn’t always been so. One of the word’s oldest meanings is “to fashion, form, or shape,” which echoes that of its Latin source, the verb fingere, meaning “to mold, fashion, make a likeness of, or pretend to be.” It’s one thing to fashion a likeness of oneself as an art project, and another to try and convince your family it’s really you in order to play hooky; it’s this element of deceit that infused other early meanings of feign including “to lie,” “to counterfeit,” and “to forge a document.” Today, people mostly use feign to suggest the act of forming, or giving shape to, false appearances—not of personas (such as, say, that of the Sausage King of Chicago), but rather conditions or feelings, such as happiness, sleep, or outrage.