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The Advocate - While sailing yesterday on Long Island Sound aboard the Ticonderoga, . . . (Stamford Advocate) - While sailing yesterday on Long Island Sound aboard the Ticonderoga, Captain Tom Reardon points out a heading to Brian Barnwell, a student in the Stamford Sailing Foundation's Blue Water Bound class.

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.

Bob-Lo Island home to amusing memories (Detroit News) - Bob-Lo Island was originally called Bois Blanc, "island of the white wood," so named by the French for the birch and beech trees that covered it. It is approximately 3 miles long and a half mile wide, and is 18 miles downriver from downtown Detroit.

Barnston Island saved (Tri-City News) - Defenders of pastoral Barnston Island are celebrating after a long-awaited decision that it will not be developed as an industrial site.

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)

Power out for thousands in Staten Island (Newsday) - Thousands of Staten Island residents are without power tonight - not even a full day after electricity returned to northwest Queens after a sweltering nine-day, politically-charged power outage.

Power fully restored in Staten Island (WABC-TV New York) - Con Ed officials said late Wednesday night that power has been restored to Staten Island, but as many as 64,000 people, all Con Ed customers, were left sweating it out in the dark for hours.