Port Jefferson News

Share + Mar 15, 2010 7:28 am US/Eastern QUEENS Long Island Railroad crews pumped water out of an East River tunnel in time for the morning commute.

Supervisor Mark Lesko and Brookhaven Town's Women's Services, a division of the Department of Housing and Human Services, announce 11 women chosen to receive the 4th annual Women's Recognition Awards.

Long Island Railroad service interruptions are possible on the Far Rockaway and Port Jefferson lines during Monday morning's rush hour, an LIRR spokesman said Sunday.

Service has been restored on the Port Jefferson/Huntingon and Ronkonkoma branches after an earlier weather-related suspension, the Long Island Rail Road said.

More than 14 months after LIPA and Suffolk County reached a tentative agreement to build a 12-mile recreational trail on an abandoned railroad track from Wading River to Port Jefferson, it appears the project has hit another major snag.

Long Island shelters in every town are full beyond capacity with unwanted cats and kittens.

Dr Leon Klempner joins Great Neck NY High School students at Cafe Rustica to raise money for Operation Smile which aids kids in 3rd world countries born with cleft lip and palate deformities.

Whoever said that thirteen is an unlucky number didn't know about the Festival of One-Act Plays which opened its 13th run at The Ronald F. Peierls Theatre, on the Second Stage at Theatre Three in Port Jefferson last Sunday evening.

Pull up a chair and take a front seat on the action! At your new North Shore community Sports Blog, submissions by and for members of the community are welcome.

Gabel will be entering his first professional season in 2010 after pitching collegiately at Wesleyan University.

James Bernstein is a longtime business writer for Newsday. In what may be a sign of a slightly improving economy, for some at least, the giant Danfords Hotel & Marina in Port Jefferson has reopened its Aqua nightclub, which had been closed for the past three years as the hotel underwent a renovation.

Post-op in the hospital in the Dominican Republic - with facilities far better than those in Haiti - where Drs.

Suffolk police are searching for a man and woman who stole nearly $1,000 worth of items from a CVS Pharmacy at 4331 Rte.

As decades-old hazardous waste gets cleaned up at the Lawrence Aviation Superfund site, officials downstream in Port Jefferson worry that not enough is being done to protect their seaside village from an underground plume that runs from the site toward Port Jefferson Harbor.

SBU professor and paleontologist David Krause with a fossil found on one of his many trips to Madagascar.

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From this week's PTR Police Reports: Neighbor dispute A resident of Willis Avenue in Port Jefferson called at 10:29 am Jan.

In today's economy, where every business is struggling to survive let alone prosper, Black Rose Productions Inc.

Since the storm will get underway prior to Wednesday morning's rush hour and build throughout the day, the LIRR will operate extra, early-afternoon departures from Penn Station for those customers looking to leave work early due to the storm.

A terminally ill Mexican woman reunited with her son after six years apart has died.