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VOL. 16, ISSUE 34
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2014 MELVILLE
Town Orders Soil Plan Review Zoning board to hire independent soil consultant By Danny Schrafel dschrafel@longislandergroup.com
The Kooks are taking the Paramount stage Oct. 9 as part of a world tour.
Kooks Bring Eclectic Sounds To Town By Danny Schrafel dschrafel@longislandergroup.com
The Kooks, a British band of pop-rockers celebrating 10 years on the music scene this year, will take the Paramount stage next Thursday, Oct. 9, as part of a world tour to promote their latest record, “Listen.” The band’s newest album, which debuted at no. 16 on the UK charts after a Sept. 8 release, incorporates elements of jazz, gospel and R&B into their sound. A glowing review from Britain’s Telegraph
Huntington Town Hall will hire an expert to ensure the soil that will serve as the foundation for a long-awaited affordable housing community is up to snuff. The town’s zoning board of appeals signed off Sept. 18 on an order mandating D&F Development Group, the builder of the limited equity co-op community on Ruland Road in Melville to be called Highland Green Residences, to provide $2,000 to pay for the town to hire an independent soil consultant to review the applicant’s soil management plan. Peter Florey, a principal of the development group, said the plan addresses some minor issues on the site. “We have a remediation plan to take care of that,” he said. “It
Pictured above is a rendering for D&F Development Group’s limited equity co-op community planned for Ruland Road in Melville. was a former nursery… There are always one or two little things that have to be taken care of.” Town Planning Director Anthony Aloisio said the estimated cost is $1,300, but the extra money was ordered in case of overruns. Any surplus will be re-
turned to D&F Development. As a soil plan is being worked out, Florey said he’s once again racing against the clock to make the development come to fruition. “We have to close before year’s end. That is fast approaching. (Continued on page A17)
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New Format For Long Islander News Notice something different about your newspaper? We hope so. And we think you’ll agree it’s for the better. This week’s editions rolled off the presses in the same state-ofthe-art, automated printing facility used to print New York’s Daily News. Built at a cost of $150-million, the printing facility is kept busy much of the time churning out copies of the venerable New York daily. Long Islander News is pleased to join a growing number
of community weeklies also being produced at the facility. Cuttingedge technology makes the process of newspaper production more efficient and a considerable investment in presses and printing technology has opened up a whole new world for us. It’s a color world. For the first time ever, our newspapers are in full color, throughout. “It’s a fact that color increases readership, and with so many me-
dia outlets competing to engage readers’ attention, it’s an absolute necessity,” Long Islander News publisher James V. Kelly said. For Kelly, managing partner of a group of local investors, the switch to color and move to a state-of-the-art facility begins to fulfill a promise made when the group purchased the newspapers just over a year ago. “Long Islander News has been an institution in the Huntington
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