Farmingdale News

When a church food pantry burns down 10 days before Thanksgiving , many problems arise - most of them bad, a few of them good, though problems just the same.

WASHINGTON As a result of an election victory, more than 1,700 school bus workers employed at the Baumann transportation companies on Long Island will become members of Teamsters Local 1205, headquartered in Farmingdale, New York.

A tribute banner created by the friends and classmates of Bryan Enriquez, 14, who was killed Sunday while riding his bicycle, hangs in the hall of a funeral home in Farmingdale on Friday, Nov.

One day after a 14-year-old boy was killed while riding his bicycle in Farmingdale, 8th Squad detectives found out his identity.

Hidden in a strip of restaurants and shops on Main Street in Farmingdale directly across from Croxley Ales sits Tiny Thai, an authentic Thai restaurant open daily for lunch and dinner.

As the busy holiday season gets underway, the headquarters and kitchen of an East Farmingdale hunger relief charity was destroyed Sunday in a fire that Suffolk police said appeared to be intentionally set.

Share + Nov 16, 2009 5:05 pm US/Eastern Reporting Jennifer McLogan FARMINGDALE, N.Y. 1 of 1 East Farmingdale firefighters tend to the fire that someone set inside the Hope for the Future Ministries food pantry on Nov.

A boy, 15, was struck at 5:43 p.m. Sunday as he was bicycling east on Route 109 near Staples Street, police said.

The East Farmingdale Fire Co. was alerted for a commercial building fire at Hope for The Future Ministries at 131 Verdi St.

Absentee ballot envelopes are photocopied on Thursday in Mineola. Suozzi's Republican challenger up by nearly 500 votes in a recount, six teams of workers Thursday photocopied envelopes containing about 9,000 paper ballots that could help decide the race next week.

Oyster Bay Chamber of Commerce President Alex Gallego attended the Thomas R. Suozzi cocktail reception being held at the Spector Group in Woodbury along with Bill DiConza, Esq.

Nassau Democratic chairman Jay Jacobs has asked the party's county lawmakers to meet, perhaps as early as Saturday, to reorganize following Tuesdays' drubbing at the polls.

Last Tuesday evening the Village of Farmingdale took a big step forward toward a bright future.

A Chapman Avenue home was discovered burglarized Oct. 27. A 1998 Mercedes-Benz was stolen while parked at the Long Island Rail Road station Oct.

The Grand Ballroom in Uniondale's Long Island Marriott is mostly empty, as hotel staff is in the process of turning the room into headquarters for the Nassau County Democrats for the next few hours.

Three men were arrested for drunken driving following three separate crashes on parkways in Nassau and Suffolk counties on Thursday, New York State police said.

The 14th Legislative District encompasses the communities of Farmingdale and portions of Massapequa, Old Bethpage, Plainview, Levittown and North Wantagh.

Kevin Watkins, 23, of 675 Conklin St., Farmingdale, was charged with driving while intoxicated and speeding.

A Long Island man with one DWI conviction already on his record has been sentenced to 7 to 21 years in prison after admitting he was drunk when he killed a driver in a head-on crash.

ROBERT E. KESSLER AND JOSEPH MALLIA. robert.kessler@newsday.com ,, joseph.mallia@newsday.com NASSAU COUNTY Judge: Government won't pay for Corbin defense A federal judge has turned down a request by Nassau Legis.