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Amalgamated and Government Leaders Unveil Site for Bank to Be Built in Long Island City (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - NEW YORK----Amalgamated Bank, along with government and community leaders, will unveil the new site for a bank branch that will be built this fall in a Long Island City. Residents of the community have been compelled to go out of the neighborhood for years to do their banking.

Education Advocates Rally for Funds in Long Island (The New York Sun) - Education advocates suing the state to increase funding for New York City public schools are rallying in Long Island today in an attempt to garner support in the backyard of some of their staunchest opponents. The Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which sued the state in 1993 to force it to allocate more money to New York City public schools, says the results of the lawsuit would help alter

SLIM SSSSTUDENT: Python loose at Long Island middle school (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) - HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. (AP) -- Students at a Long Island school have more than the three R's to deal with these days. They're hunting for a reptile running loose.

Shopper, 60, Mugged At Long Island Street Fair (WNBC) - FRANKLIN SQUARE, N.Y. -- A 60-year-old woman has been beaten and mugged by two men at a Long Island street fair. Nassau County police said the woman was at the Franklin Square Street Fair early Sunday afternoon when one man came up in front of her and another approached from behind.

Long Island Express (OurSports Central) - (Central Islip, N.Y., Sept. 24, 2006) - The Ducks have five players that have called the Island their home for their entire life. In Long Island's final regular season home game of 2006, all five contributed to the Flock's 9-7 come-from-behind victory over the Riversharks on Sunday afternoon.

Sex offender cluster discovered on Long Island (WABC-TV New York) - Dozens of sex offenders, nearly half of them classified as the most dangerous kind, are all living within a quarter mile of each other.

Across the East River and Poised for Growth (New York Times) - Long Island City, Queens, has nearly a million square feet of commercial office space coming out of the ground within the next year.

Island Influences - Celebrating Family Traditions (Scoop.co.nz) - Taro is the pacific ingredient featuring in the newly created “Island Influences” class sponsored by the Pacific Islands Trade & Investment Commission at this years NZ Culinary Fare.

Python Snake On The Loose At Long Island School (WCBS-TV New York) - Students at a Long Island school have more than the three R's to deal with these days. They're hunting for a reptile running loose. The 2-foot snake name is Slim, a ball python who escaped from its tank in the sixth-grade science room. The snake had been a pet inside the room for five years at Hauppauge Middle School.

Island Party Spot Raises Tempers (The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register) - WHEELING — The latest party hot spot for underage drinkers is along the back channel of the Ohio River, Wheeling Island residents say.