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Long Island Announces Wireless Provider (WCBS 880 New York) - Suffolk and Nassau counties have picked a wireless Internet provider for Long Island. The counties plan to announce their pick tomorrow. Under the program, WiFi will be installed throughout Nassau and Suffolk over three years beginning in the spring of 2008.

Fresh Market coming to Long Island (Newsday) - The Fresh Market, a speciality grocery retailer that sells unpackaged perishables, will soon bring its European-style markets to Long Island.

Long Island far from ready for disaster (Newsday) - The lights go out. A hurricane pounds the Island. There's an outbreak of highly contagious flu. Terrorists have attacked New York City.

Traffic moving, avoid Cross Island Parkway (Newsday) - Traffic is slow but moving Tuesday morning on the Long Island Expressway. The usual bottlenecks --- at the Satigkos-Sunken Meadow Parkway in Suffolk, at Shelter Rock Road and Glen Cove Road in Nassau, at the Cross Island Parkway, the Clearview Expressway, the Van Wyck and Queens Boulevard in Queens --- are, well . . . bottlenecked, as usual.

Flossie whips across Hawaii after small earthquake hits island (CNN.com) - The "big island" of Hawaii is feeling Hurricane Flossie's pounding rain and dangerous winds.

Smell of success eludes Indian Ocean spice island (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - At the end of a stony track, watched by soldiers with automatic weapons, the self-appointed leader of a tiny Indian Ocean island is giving a an Independence Day speech.

Long time coming: Surf City wins first LBIBPA title since 1980 (Asbury Park Press) - BRANT BEACH — For the past 17 years, the Barnegat Light and Long Beach Township beach patrols have owned the Long Beach Island Beach Patrol Association Lifeguard Tournament.

Long Island woman psychs out Open (The Record) - PARAMUS -- Susannah Aboff is a psychology major at Princeton and says the study of the brain helps her golf game. It's hard to dispute Aboff's assertion after she handled a three-hour drive, two-hour rain delay and 90-plus degree temperatures Wednesday and breezed to the Women's Met Open title.

Smith Island residents put homes on auction block (The Washington Times) - SMITH ISLAND, Md. (AP) — This island in the Chesapeake Bay has been home to watermen for years, but a scheduled auction of homes this weekend shows evidence of changing times for a community with long maritime roots.

Parrots Pilfered From Long Island Pet Shop (WPVI-TV Philadelphia) - Polly doesn't want a cracker.