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Long Island Presidents' Council announces finalists for annual school essay contest (Babylon Beacon) - The Long Island Presidents' Council, an association of teachers' union presidents, has selected finalists for their eighth annual School Essay Contest. This year's title was Why I Like Going Back to School in September. The contest was open to Long Island students, kindergarten through 12th grade, from districts throughout Nassau and Suffolk Counties.

Annual energy conference for Long Island Houses of Worship (Babylon Beacon) - The Long Island Interfaith Environmental Network (LIIEN) held its second annual conference featuring workshops on Energy Efficiency for Religious Congregations on April 16, at the Molloy College Suffolk Center in East Farmingdale.

Leg. Stern appears on WBAB/WBLI radio show to promote “Safe Teen Drive Long Island” (Babylon Beacon) - Suffolk County Leg. Steve Stern (D-Huntington), 16th LD recently appeared on WBAB/WBLI radio station in partnership with Allstate's Safe Teen Drive Long Island program, which is offering every public and private high school in Nassau and Suffolk counties, a $1,000 grant to increase safe driving awareness among teenagers.

Long Island economy slows down, job growth pulls back (Long Island Business News) - The national downturn in the economy is evident on Long Island, posted weak job growth and a jump in unemployment in March, according to a state report.

NY officials auction Long Island tax evader's plane (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - An airplane owned by a Long Island man convicted of tax evasion is being auctioned by the state finance department. The New York state Department of Taxation and Finance says the sale of the single-engine aircraft takes place Thursday at Long Island Islip MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma.

BREAKING NEWS: Former Gordon priest to be sentenced for arranging tryst in Long Island at 5:24 p.m. (The Pottsville Republican & Herald) - A former priest who molested a Pottsville teenager in the 1980s, and pleaded guilty last year to arranging what he thought would be a tryst with a 15-year-old boy in Long Island, N.Y. in 2006, will be sentenced tomorrow in New York, according to the Associated Press.

(AFX UK Focus) 2008-04-17 15:18 GMT: NY officials auction Long Island tax evader's plane (Interactive Investor) - RONKONKOMA, N.Y. (AP) - An airplane owned by a Long Island man convicted of tax evasion is being auctioned by the state finance department.

Long Island Music Fans WIN on National Record Store Day with amberRose Marie in Stores at Record Stop, CD Island and ... (PRWeb) - April 19th is National Record Store Day designed with flair to bring attention to community record stores with recording artists and retailers joining as one across the country connecting with fans instore with performances, CD signings and more! On Long Island, Catz Entertainment, radio stations 106.1 BLI and Party 105.3 bring on the beats with amberRose Marie performing her Billboard hit ...

Corporate Fight Lets Toxics Flow to Long Island Sound (Environment News Service) - HARTFORD, Connecticut , April 17, 2008 (ENS) - Connecticut officials are seeking an order against two disputing companies whose inaction and ongoing argument they allege is allowing PCB contamination to jeopardize Bridgeport Harbor and Long Island Sound.

Judge says OK for Mark Rothko's family to move his remains from Long Island cemetery (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) - EAST MARION, N.Y. - A judge has approved a request from artist Mark Rothko's children to move his remains from a Long Island cemetery to a burial plot in Valhalla, N.Y.