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PSEG Long Island Employees Donate more than $1,500 in Gift Cards To Help Veterans Get To And From Vital Medical Appointments at the VA

Editor June 29, 2020

PSEG Long Island employees recently delivered more than $500 in Uber gift cards and $1,000 in Walmart gift cards to be distributed to formerly homeless veterans through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-VA Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) department of the Northport Veterans

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Humanitarians at Northport High School Travel to Kenya

Editor February 28, 2020

On Feb. 14, Northport High School’s humanitarian club – “Students for 60,000” (SF60K) – departed for Mtito Andei, Kenya to begin constructing a new school for the students of the Ivani school district. In recent months, the district’s former school had succumbed to the elements and was further destroyed by animals, forcing the students to […]

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Peter Max: The Retrospective 1960-2019

Editor October 21, 2019

A Retrospective collection, with a significant nod to New York sports, music, the arts and the legacy of the Pop Art genre from the studio of artist legend, Peter Max, will be on exhibition and available for acquisition in a limited engagement presentation at Pop by LaMantia (90 Main St., Northport), Long Island’s premier pop art gallery. The […]

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Northport Resident Runs On Team PSEG Long Island In Marcum Workplace Challenge

Editor August 6, 2019

Northport resident Jorge Jimenez wore his bright blue PSEG Long Island running shirt and joined thousands of exercise enthusiasts crossing the finish line last Tuesday night at Jones Beach in the Marcum Workplace Challenge.  The Marcum Challenge is a 3.5-mile charity run at Jones Beach State Park that PSEG Long Island supported this year with […]

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Brookhaven National Lab Science Fair winners

Editor May 10, 2019

Two students from the Northport-East Northport Union Free School District were selected as first-place winners in Brookhaven National Lab’s 2019 Elementary School Science Fair on May 4. The fair received more than 400 science projects from 100 elementary schools across Suffolk County and was judged by Brookhaven scientists, engineers, staff and local teachers. Only one

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Students For 60,000 Hold Community Forum

Editor April 11, 2019

After returning from a life-changing service trip to West Virginia, the Students for 60,000 club held a forum at the Northport Public Library to share their experiences with the community. Students shared how different parts of the trip affected them. Some students shared how moved they were to learn about the adverse impact the coal […]

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Medical Mission Through Artistic Expression

Editor March 28, 2019

Northport High School senior Sofia Sawchuk has been volunteering at St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center in Smithtown for the past two years and recently helped the hospital bring their mission to life through art. Their core value I-CARE — an acronym for integrity, compassion, accountability, responsibility and excellence — was expressed by way of […]

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Northport students serve the community

Editor November 13, 2018

Seven current and past members of Norwood Avenue Elementary School’s service club, the “O Ambassadors,” volunteered at Project HOPE on Oct. 28. Project HOPE is a community ministry founded by the youth of St. Hugh’s Parish to help those in need in the surrounding Huntington area. This free meal center offers food to anyone in […]

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Turning Civic Knowledge Into Civic Action

Editor November 9, 2018

American Law and Criminal Justice students at Northport High School were recently visited by Jaqueline Sullivan, a 2015 NHS graduate and the current outreach coordinator for the Town of Huntington Youth Court. Volunteering for this program gets students involved in the adjudication of real court cases that involve youth from the town. When a youth […]