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Long Island Board of Realtors(R), Inc. Donates $15,000 to Rebuilding Together Long Island (SYS-CON Media) - Long Island Board of Realtors®, Inc.(LIBOR) has donated $15,000 to assist the Long Island Chapter of RebuildingTogether in their mission to help rebuild homes and lives of people inneed. The check was presented by Gil Picard, President of the LIBOR, FrankUrso and Christina Cidoni, LIBOR Public Relations Committee Chairperson andVice Chairperson respectively, to Sol Goldstein, President of

Scallops Making Comeback On Long Island (CBS 2 New York) - Scallops are making a comeback on Long Island, but the harvest in 2005 is still about 2 percent of the harvest made in 1984.

Long Island Board of Realtors(R), Inc. Donates $15,000 to Rebuilding Together Long Island (Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - Long Island Board of Realtors®, Inc. (LIBOR) has donated $15,000 to assist the Long Island Chapter of Rebuilding Together in their mission to help rebuild homes and lives of people in need.

Bacteria closes 4 Long Island Beaches (WABC-TV New York) - Tides Beach in Rocky Point and three other Long Island beaches had to shut down Monday after tests showed higher than acceptable bacteria levels.

Long Island, NY, 2nd Quarter Office Vacancies Fall, Rents Up (PR Web) - Office vacancies on Long Island fell during the 2006 second quarter to 10.7 percent as rents continued to climb, reaching $26.45 per square foot Long Island’s leading commercial real estate services firm, Sutton & Edwards Inc./TCN Worldwide., reported. The firm predicted that soaring New York City rents would boost leasing activity in the suburban two-county region. (PRWEB Jul 24, 2006)

Allen Uses an Island to Put Webb on the Spot (Washington Post) - It's just 2,500 acres of one-time river muck. But U.S. Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) hopes Portsmouth's Craney Island Dredged Material Management Area can help sink his Democratic opponent's chances of being elected to the Senate this year.

Water alert causes firing on Fire Island (Newsday) - The false alarm about tainted water that had Fire Island residents drinking bottled water for three days earlier this month was caused by bad samples taken by a field operator with a troubled work history, Suffolk County Water Authority records show.

New cellular tax irks Long Beach users (Newsday) - A 3 percent tax that started showing up a few months ago on wireless telephone bills is a source of confusion to tax-weary Long Beach residents.

Teen Charged In Long Island Robbery (CBS 2 New York) - A 15-year-old is charged with robbing a woman at knifepoint on Long Island and nearly cutting off her finger.

Evacuation Partly Lifted in Forest Fire on B.C.'s Galiano Island (RedNova) - By SCOTT SUTHERLAND GALIANO ISLAND, B.C. (CP) - Only a fraction of those evacuated by a forest fire were allowed back in Tuesday and the ones who faced a third night out of their homes were disappointed, but grateful for the caution shown by fire authorities.