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Families of the Construction Trades honored at Long Island’s favorite Christmas Tree (Babylon Beacon) - Against the boughs of an 80 foot tall Christmas tree at Reckson Plaza, East Meadow, a Bay Shore family is honored by Reckson Associates Realty for their role in helping to build Long Island as they place mini hard hat ornaments on the tree.

Menorah Display Vandalized On Long Island (CBS 2 New York) - Nassau County police are looking for the vandals who destroyed a Menorah display in Baldwin. Police say this is the second year in a row the Menorah in Baldwin was vandalized.

Long Island native Mariah Carey ties Elvis on singles chart (New York Newsday) - Long Island native Mariah Carey's "Don't Forget About Us" rose to the top of Billboard's Hot 100 chart, putting her in a tie with Elvis Presley for second place among artists with the most No. 1 singles in the rock era.

Thailand's Phi Phi island depends on volunteers for post-tsunami recovery (Channel NewsAsia) - PHI PHI ISLAND, Thailand : While the physical scars from the tsunami have largely healed in Thailand's tourist magnet Phuket, rebuilding on the once idyllic island of Phi Phi has depended mostly on volunteers.

Steve & Barry's Caters to Less Picky Crowd (AP via Yahoo! News) - In the summer of 1979, 15-year-old buddies Steve Shore and Barry Prevor started out in business with a megaphone and piles of excess-inventory T-shirts they sold for $1 each at flea markets across Long Island.

Huntington Would Draft Land Protection Strategy During Proposed 6-Month Project Moratorium (Smart Growth Online) - A town of 10 golf courses, Huntington, in the middle of Long Island's northern shore, has become acutely aware that the eight private ones, totaling almost 900 acres, may one day be on sale for subdivisions -- a troublesome eventuality local leaders and smart growth activists want to control through land conservation and development rules, which should be worked out during a proposed six-month

Long Island Woman Killed In 3-Car Accident (WNBC) - SMITHTOWN, N.Y. -- A Long Island woman was killed Thursday in a three-car accident, Suffolk County police said. Patrice Woisen, 46, of Nesconset, was killed in the 8:40 p.m. crash on Landing Avenue in Smithtown, police said.

Public or private? (Newsday) - Long Islanders happy to see the despised Long Island Lighting Co. replaced by a public utility in 1998 could again become customers of a private utility in the future, according to a new report and energy experts.

Home at last (Newsday) - He said his name was Frank Singleton, but carried no identification. He couldn't remember where he was born. He'd been a farm worker for most of his adult life, living in labor camps from Florida to eastern Long Island, but had nothing to show for it. He wore other people's thrown off clothes.

Ridgewood Student Is Killed In Long Island Auto Accident (The Ridgewood Times News) - by Robert Pozarycki A freshman at Stony Brook University, originally from Ridgewood, has died from injuries suffered after being hit by a car at the Long Island campus Thursday morning.