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Long Island Developers Eye $1B-Plus Resort (Commercial Property News) - Long Island’s hundreds of miles of beaches provide a flourishing vacation trade, and a development team wants to capitalize on that reputation with the island’s largest-ever resort development--a project on eastern Long Island that could command a $1.5 billion investment.

Long Island ends mandatory golf cart policy (Sports Illustrated) - EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (AP) -- A controversial policy mandating the use of golf carts on one of Long Island's most prestigious public courses was rescinded Thursday.

Mortgage turmoil hurts Long Island job market (Newsday) - The Long Island job market, which has been sluggish for several months, has taken a hit because of turmoil in the mortgage market, according to the latest report from the New York State Department of Labor.

Lawsuit: Immigration raids in Westchester, Long Island, violated Hispanics' civil rights (The Journal News) - NEW YORK - Lawyers for Hispanics in Westchester and Long Island have filed a federal lawsuit charging authorities with violating civil rights by raiding their homes without court warrants.

Big Island's infrastructure needs acute as districts, towns expand (BizJournals) - Hawaii County, with its population pegged at over 170,000 residents, is the second most populous island in the state. The island's population has steadily increased by about 28,000 people per decade over the past four decades.

Valcour Island Lighthouse Open for Visitors (WCAX-TV Vermont) - Its light helped scores of mariners navigate the rocky shores of Lake Champlain for more than a century. Now the Valcour Island lighthouse shines again.

The Long Island Home appoints John O'Connell to Board of Directors (Amityville Record) - On Thursday, August 30, John T. O'Connell was appointed to The Long Island Home Board of Directors in Amityville. O'Connell is the former president and CEO of the Health and Welfare Council of Long Island, Inc. and is presently consulting at Nassau University Medical Center.

A Fiji Island banded iguana was seized from a suspect's Long Beach, Calif., home by officials from the U. S. Fish and ... (El Paso Times) - LOS ANGELES - A man accused of stealing three endangered iguanas from a nature preserve in Fiji and smuggling them into the United States in his prosthetic leg has been indicted.

South Marsh Island blocks the place to be (The Daily Iberian) - CYPREMORT POINT — If you weren’t fishing the South Marsh Island blocks Saturday, chances are you weren’t catching fish, or as many big fish as the people who were there hooked and boated on the first day of the 49th annual Kay-Cee Saltwater Fishing Rodeo.

Oyster farming begins to reap what is sown (Newsday) - With popularity and prices rising, more Long Island cultivators are taking the plunge, reviving an old industry Observant diners on the deck of the Lobster Inn in Southampton might notice something unexpected as they gaze at the pleasure boats and million-dollar homes on Cold Spring Pond. They might spot a man in orange waders aboard a humble wooden fishing boat, using a creaky winch to pull ...