Due to heavy rainfall, the Nassau County Department of Health is issuing an advisory against bathing at 3 beaches, effective today, July 1, 2025. This advisory is issued as a precautionary measure for beaches known to be impacted by stormwater runoff. ... Read full Story
By greaterlongisland.com | Nick Esposito | 7/1/2025 11:39 AM
A beloved North Shore restaurant has officially expanded to the South Shore — with a French twist. La … Continued
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By greaterlongisland.com | Julianne Mosher | 7/1/2025 11:13 AM
Fred Astaire Ballroom Studio is waltzing into Port Jefferson this week, marking the latest addition to the village’s … Continued
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Legislator Carrié Solages is pleased to report that the Nassau County Department of Public Works is now repaving a nearly two-mile stretch of Linden Boulevard from the Queens border to Central Avenue/Exit 13 of the Southern State Parkway. ... Read full Story
By greaterlongisland.com | Brian Harmon | 7/1/2025 8:55 AM
Long Island Sound, Sunken Meadow Beach, Suffolk County Police, Marine Bureau, Smithtown Harbor Master, Water Rescue, Kayak Accident, Kings Park Bluff
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By greaterlongisland.com | Julianne Mosher | 7/1/2025 6:00 AM
A popular dessert food truck is expanding, setting up a decorating studio in Mount Sinai. Typically parked at … Continued
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It’s official! East Northport native Preston “PJ” Carey will play college football at Georgia. The 6-foot-6, 295-pound defensive … Continued
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It was a championship parade kind of day in Cold Spring Harbor. The community lined Main Street on … Continued
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By greaterlongisland.com | Peter Schwartz | 6/30/2025 5:49 PM
Column If the Bridgeport Islanders are on the move, there’s only one place that makes sense — and … Continued
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Nassau County Legislature Alternate Deputy Minority Leader Debra Mulé (D – Freeport) and Legislator Seth I. Koslow (D – Merrick) celebrated with the graduates of the Woodward Children’s Center in Freeport on Thursday, June 26. ... Read full Story
Nassau County Legislature Alternate Deputy Minority Leader Debra Mulé (D – Freeport) and Legislator Seth I. Koslow (D – Merrick) celebrated with the graduates of the Woodward Children’s Center in Freeport on Thursday, June 26. ... Read full Story
By greaterlongisland.com | Brian Harmon | 6/30/2025 3:45 PM
A GoFundMe has raised more than $10,000 after a drunk driver tore through the Montauk Art Show early Sunday, destroying artist tents and displays. The Montauk Artists Association says some exhibitors lost everything.
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By greaterlongisland.com | Brian Harmon | 6/30/2025 2:33 PM
A Dollar General is quietly moving into the old Rite Aid space at Miller Place Square. The store isn’t open yet, but the lights are on and shelves are stocked.
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By greaterlongisland.com | Mike White | 6/30/2025 2:31 PM
Toast Coffee + Kitchen is about to open its fifth Long Island location, this time at the brand-new … Continued
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By greaterlongisland.com | Mike White | 6/30/2025 1:48 PM
Brookhaven Town officials have announced “a major legal victory” against a corporate landlord they say has long plagued … Continued
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Nassau County Legislature Alternate Deputy Minority Leader Debra Mulé (D – Freeport) celebrated Juneteenth at the Roosevelt Public Library during their second annual Children’s Day Festival and Juneteenth Festival on Saturday, June 21. ... Read full Story
Nassau County Legislator Olena Nicks (D – Uniondale) is bringing her district office’s resources directly to residents by hosting mobile office hours at Kennedy Memorial Park in Hempstead (co-hosted with Nassau County Legislator Scott M. Davis... ... Read full Story
By greaterlongisland.com | Julianne Mosher | 6/30/2025 12:22 PM
Hanover Bank is the newest arrival in upper Port Jefferson, officially opening its doors June 25 at 1 … Continued
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Nassau County Legislature Alternate Deputy Minority Leader Debra Mulé (D – Freeport) joined the Freeport Chamber of Commerce and her colleagues in government on Thursday, June 26 to commemorate the grand opening of the Freeport Station Laundromat. ... Read full Story
Nassau County Legislature Alternate Deputy Minority Leader Debra Mulé (D - Freeport) brought her district office’s resources directly to residents by hosting mobile office hours at the Freeport Memorial Library on Wednesday, June 25. ... Read full Story
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for July 3, 2025 is:
desultory • \DEH-sul-tor-ee\ • adjective
Desultory is a formal word used to describe something that lacks a plan or purpose, or that occurs without regularity. It can also describe something unconnected to a main subject, or something that is disappointing in progress, performance, or quality.
// After graduation, I moved from job to job in a more or less desultory manner before finding work I liked.
// The team failed to cohere over the course of the season, stumbling to a desultory fifth place finish.
“One other guy was in the waiting room when I walked in. As we sat there past the scheduled time of our appointments, we struck up a desultory conversation. Like me, he’d been in the hiring process for years, had driven down from Albuquerque the night before, and seemed nervous. He asked if I’d done any research on the polygraph. I said no, and asked him the same question. He said no. We were getting our first lies out of the way.” — Justin St. Germain, “The Memoirist and the Lie Detector,” New England Review, 2024
Did you know?
The Latin adjective desultorius was used by the ancient Romans to describe a circus performer (called a desultor) whose trick was to leap from horse to horse without stopping. English speakers took the idea of the desultorius performer and coined the word desultory to describe that which figuratively “jumps” from one thing to another, without regularity, and showing no sign of a plan or purpose. (Both desultor and desultorius, by the way, come from the Latin verb salire, meaning “to leap.”) A desultory conversation leaps from one topic to another, and a desultory comment is one that jumps away from the topic at hand. Meanwhile a desultory performance is one resulting from an implied lack of steady, focused effort.