By greaterlongisland.com | Brian Harmon | 9/2/2024 10:25 AM
A propane leak inside William Floyd High School on Sunday temporarily cast doubt on whether the school would be able to open as scheduled for the first day of classes...
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By greaterlongisland.com | Mike White | 8/29/2024 2:56 PM
Maybe people are getting sick and tired of their phones and streaming accounts.
Because this bookstore is thriving.
Barnes & Noble has announced that a new Huntington Station location is...
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By greaterlongisland.com | Mike White | 8/29/2024 2:26 PM
The rapidly growing Kyuramen ramen chain has just opened its 30th location, this time in downtown Huntington.
“Huntington has long been known for its rich cultural heritage and thriving food...
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By greaterlongisland.com | Mike White | 8/29/2024 12:03 PM
After running franchise operations across the Northeast since the 1990s, longtime business partners Mike Tochluk and Charles Kwon are embarking on their own brand, inspired by the taco stands of...
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By greaterlongisland.com | Nick Esposito | 8/29/2024 11:45 AM
The odds of finding an orange lobster are about the same as becoming a U.S. president: roughly 1 in 30 million.
That’s why many were shocked when an orange lobster...
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By greaterlongisland.com | Brian Harmon | 8/28/2024 6:34 PM
Rino Monteforte was so Italian while growing up in North Babylon that he was not even allowed to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.
These days, though, that couldn’t be farther from...
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By greaterlongisland.com | Nick Esposito | 8/28/2024 6:04 PM
The culvert that allows the Swan River to pass underneath the Barton Avenue overpass in East Patchogue is being replaced, thanks to a $910,000 grant from New York State.
The...
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By greaterlongisland.com | Staff | 8/28/2024 5:12 PM
Imagine losing your eyesight as a teenager, battling depression, and then becoming a gold medalist and social media star.
This, in a nutshell, is the story of Long Islander Anastasia...
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Today, Nassau County Legislature Minority Leader Delia DeRiggi-Whitton called for an immediate investigation by New York State Attorney General Letitia James into the alleged misuse of taxpayer dollars by Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman ... Read full Story
By greaterlongisland.com | Mike White | 8/28/2024 3:37 AM
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There’s a scene in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation where Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) frantically calls the entire family out to the lawn to look at his Christmas lights....
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By greaterlongisland.com | Mike White | 8/27/2024 2:48 PM
Panico levels racism charges; says village policies keep neighboring black and brown people from the beach
In 1963, Bellport Village purchased a stretch of Fire Island across Bellport Bay for...
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By greaterlongisland.com | Brian Harmon | 8/27/2024 10:17 AM
Marine cops rescued a Holbrook man and his dog early Tuesday from the bay near Mascot Dock and Marina in Patchogue, police said.
Ethan Brako, 20, was crabbing at Mascot...
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By greaterlongisland.com | Brian Harmon | 8/27/2024 7:14 AM
A young registered nurse from Copiague who was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer earlier this summer is receiving a wave of support from the Long Island community and...
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By greaterlongisland.com | Brian Harmon | 8/26/2024 5:25 PM
The owners of a $1.9 million Hamptons vacation home where two Maryland sisters died in a fire during a family trip with their brother and parents in 2022 pleaded guilty...
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By greaterlongisland.com | Nick Esposito | 8/26/2024 4:41 PM
Eastern Long Island may experience hazardous weather yet again.
The National Weather Service has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch and a Marginal Flood Threat from 1:05 p.m. to 7 p.m....
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By greaterlongisland.com | Brian Harmon | 8/26/2024 3:17 PM
Hundreds of seafood and live music lovers flocked to the Long Island Maritime Museum in West Sayville this weekend for the annual Long Island Seafood Festival.
The 2024 edition of...
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To help ensure local students get a strong start to the 2024-25 school year, Nassau Carrié Solages is teaming up with the Green Acres Mall and community partners to host a back-to-school giveaway in the mall parking lot on Saturday, Aug. 31. ... Read full Story
By greaterlongisland.com | Mike White | 8/26/2024 11:38 AM
In the continued effort to prevent Plum Island from becoming a playground for the wealthy, town supervisors and village mayors from across the East End have thrown their support behind...
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Nassau County Legislature Deputy Minority Leader Arnold W. Drucker (D – Plainview) joined with Career Day, Inc. on Wednesday, Aug. 21 for its kickoff event at Jovia Financial Credit Union in Westbury. ... Read full Story
By greaterlongisland.com | Brian Harmon | 8/25/2024 9:43 PM
President Joe Biden declared a state of emergency today for the areas of Suffolk County impacted by the catastrophic storms that tore across Long Island seven days ago, the White...
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“The eagerness to vilify ‘the other side’—usually on social media—complicates the less reactionary work that defines our mission.” — Jerry Brewer, The Washington Post, 11 June 2024
Did you know?
It seems reasonable to assume that the words vilify and villain come from the same source; after all, to vilify someone is—in some ways—to make them out to be a villain. Such is not the case, however. Although the origin stories of both vilify and villain involve Latin, their roots are quite different. Vilify came to English (via Middle English and Late Latin) from the Latin adjective vilis, meaning “cheap” or “vile.” Someone who has been vilified, accordingly, has had their reputation tarnished or cheapened in such a way that they’re viewed as morally reprehensible. Villain on the other hand, comes from the Medieval Latin word villanus, meaning “villager,” and ultimately from the Latin noun villa, meaning “house.” The Middle English descendent of villanus developed the meaning of “a person of uncouth mind and manners” due to the vilifying influence of the aristocracy of the time, and the connotations worsened from there until villain came to refer to (among other things), a deliberate scoundrel.