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The Sisters of Greater Long Island fight breast cancer (Amityville Record) - October is Breast Health Awareness month. In preparation, The Sisters of Greater Long Island met at Carol Gordon's house, south of Merrick Road in Amityville.

Port Girls Tennis Team Wins Long Island Championship (Port Washington News) - On Wednesday, Nov. 7, the high school varsity tennis team beat Westhampton High School 5-2, capturing the Long Island tennis championship. This is only the second year of this competition.

Oil Spill Discovered Off Long Island Beach (WNBC) - The U.S. Coast Guard is looking for the source of the oil spill that washed up on three miles of shoreline from Long Beach and Atlantic Beach.

Long Island football championship gallery (AM New York) - The East Islip football team could have walked on glass Friday and the players probably wouldn't get cut. It didn't matter how dire the situation looked, very little went wrong for the Redmen.

Long Island Event Promises to Rock the Big Apple (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - The United States Tournament of Dance and Performing Arts announced today that 2007's Miss Dance of the United States Justine Delpriora participate in the United Cerebral Palsy Association of Nassau County's world famous Festival of Trees scheduled for November 23 - 25th 2007 at the Long Island Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in Uniondale, NY.

Sound tunnel would link Rye, Long Island (The Journal News) - WHITE PLAINS - A shortcut from Westchester to Long Island has failed for decades because of opposition to a bridge over the Sound. Now a new plan calls for tunneling underneath it.

LIVE: N-Zone blog from the Long Island Championships (Newsday) - 11:50 a.m. - The P.A. announcer has just begun his monologue and is announcing the rosters... 11:57 - The National Anthem has finished. Kickoff is in a few minutes.

Long Island filmmaker takes on global warming (Newsday) - Judith Helfand's first documentary, "A Healthy Baby Girl," chronicled her battle with cervical cancer, caused by the antimiscarriage drug (DES) that her mother took while pregnant. Her second film, "Blue Vinyl," was about the insidiousness of the plastics industry, and began with the vinyl siding on her parents' home in Merrick.

Block Island a sea of tranquility among turbulent holiday shopping season (The Providence Journal) - NEW SHOREHAM — On the island, the Black Friday shopping race unfolds at a stroll.

Developer proposes Long Island-Westchester tunnel (Newsday) - A multimillionaire developer is proposing a privately funded, 16-mile tunnel under Long Island Sound that he says would carry up to 80,000 vehicles each day between Syosset and Rye in Westchester County by 2025.