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Hospital Capacity In North Fork Area: Update - North Fork, NY - Here's how many hospital beds are currently filled in Suffolk County as the pandemic wanes.

Sayville-Bayport Pets Waiting To Be Adopted: Tucker, King & More Patch 3/8/2021 © New York State Retriever Rescue Inc Want to add a furry friend to your family and do something good for the world at the same time? Consider adopting a pet from a local shelter or organization. Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, many animal shelters in the Sayville-Bayport area are still working to fulfill adoptions and place pets in forever homes. There are thousands of dogs, cats and other animals of all...

Read / Add Comments There are many ways in which a venerable Long Island Italian restaurant stands out - charming staff, authentic Sicilian cuisine, a plethora of wines, and flaming lobsters. Casa Rustica in Smithtown has the unique distinction of serving a succulent, tableside lobster flambe. In this preparation, the meat is removed from a 2-3 lb. lobster, basted, then cooked in a bright, hot flash of fire before it is returned to the shell and served.  The eatery also does a ta...

Florida to take on Stetson The Gators face the Stetson Hatters for the first time since 2014 Saturday Florida will take on Stetson in DeLand, Florida, Saturday for the first time since 2014 The Gators will head down to DeLand, Florida, to face the Stetson Hatters Saturday in their home opener.   The teams have not faced each other since 2014 when Florida dominated offensively in a 23-1 win.  UF defeated Kennesaw State 20-7 Wednesday. The Hatters fell under pressure from the Campbell Univers...

Monday marks the one-year anniversary of the first confirmed coronavirus case in New York. A memorial is on display outside of Suffolk County

One year later, remembering victims of pandemic Southold Town Councilwoman Jill Doherty, who’s chief of staff for Assemblywoman Jodi Giglio, speaks at Monday’s ceremony. (Credit: Tara Smith) Exactly one year since state health officials confirmed the first COVID-19 case in New York, local leaders gathered in Riverhead Monday to commemorate those we’ve lost during the pandemic. “Over the past year, so many have suffered the painful loss of family mem...

UpdatedFri, Feb 26, 2021 at 11:29 pm ET Reply (Shutterstock) SMITHTOWN, NY — The monumental power failure in Texas caused by unseasonable cold showed how extreme weather can push an electric grid to the brink. The average U.S. power customer loses electricity for 1.5 to 2 hours annually even before extreme weather events are taken into account, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. As the Texas experience showed, hurricanes, snowstorms, heat waves and other extrem...

Greg Schwartz | Photo credit: Tomo The council is aimed at guiding the platform — for which details are still scarce — as it prepares to launch in the coming months with a plan to create a better real estate transaction experience. Tomo, which was founded by Zillow alumni Greg Schwartz and Carey Armstrong is — at least in part — a fintech software of which the initial focus will be on the mortgage process, but the company continues to be quiet about details ahead of its launch. In a st...

Posted on February 25, 2021 | 11:37 a.m. Source: David Glasgal Dr. Mortimer “Morty” Glasgal was a cultured artist and an intellectual with a love of theater, classical music, literature, politics, gardening and world travel. (Glasgal family photo) Dr. Mortimer “Morty” Glasgal always lived and loved life, including those he shared it with, from conception to his death, to the fullest. He passed away on Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021, in Santa Barbara, after a fall from which he did not recover. A...

We get a pause for the next day or so before another winter storm brings some icy conditions to the New York City metropolitan area.