The TIMES of Huntington • Northport • East Northport
Cold Spring Harbor • lloyd Harbor • lloyd nECK • HalESitE • HUntington bay • grEEnlawn • CEntErport • aSHaroKEn • Eaton’S nECK • Fort Salonga–wESt Volume 12, No. 9
June 11, 2015
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Green Fest 2015
also: Q & a with ringmaster Fred Hall, b10; Culper Spy day, b19; gallery north gala, b26; li Maker Festival, b35
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Kicking cancer to the curb photo by Jim Hoops
Huntington High School’s 4th Annual Relay for Life last weekend included participation from nearly 700 individuals on 75 teams that raised more than $135,000 for the American Cancer Society’s efforts to conquer cancer. The weekend kicked off with an opening ceremony featuring guest speakers including cancer survivors, caregivers and family members recounting personal battles with the disease. During the weekend-long event, Relay For Life teams camp out overnight and take turns walking or running around a track or path at a local high school, park or fairground. The event is 12 hours long, and because cancer never sleeps, each team is asked to have at least one participant on the track at all times.
DeForest estate trails open
CSH’s wawapek preserve is born
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Benchmark misses mark with residents assisted living plan blasted at public hearing By RoHmA ABBAS
Plans to build a 69-unit assisted living facility in a residential, wooded Huntington neighborhood were largely met with heavy censure by neighboring residents at a town board public hearing on Tuesday night. The room was filled to the max with individuals holding up signs for and against the proposal, and jeering and applause often punctuated speakers’ statements. bEnCHMarK continued on page a10
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Residents turn out for and against a plan to build a 69-unit assisted living facility in Huntington.