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Beginnings: This community - at eight square miles the largest and most populous in the Town of Huntington - began as a farming area in the 1700s. The first tract of land was purchased in 1653 from Chief Asharoken of the Matinecocks, who had maintained hunting camps in the area. Part of the area was known as Clay Pitts for the clay that was first used by the Indians for cooking vessels and then by white settlers for making bricks.
Beginnings: This community - at eight square miles the largest and most populous in the Town of Huntington - began as a farming area in the 1700s. The first tract of land was purchased in 1653 from Chief Asharoken of the Matinecocks, who had maintained hunting camps in the area. Part of the area was known as Clay Pitts for the clay that was first used by the Indians for cooking vessels and then by white settlers for making bricks.
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A list of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack victims
A list of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack victims from data compiled by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. The overall death toll from the attacks stands at 2,977 -- including 2,753 killed as a result of the attacks at the World Trade Center, 184...Tags: Locust Valley, Oakland (Chicago, Illinois), Richard Kelly, Mount Vernon, WPIX
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Long Island School Evacuated After Bomb Threat
Police are investigating after a bomb threat at a Long Island middle school prompted a mass evacuation Thursday morning.
According to authorities, students and staff from East Northport Middle School were evacuated some time before 12 p.m. after the...Tags: Suffolk County (New York), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Northport, Long Island
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Meet Your 'Survivor: China' Castaways
Zap2It.comA grave digger, a Christian talk radio host, a chicken farmer and a WWE wrestler lead the newly announced castaways for CBS' "Survivor: China." The 15th installment of the Mark Burnett-produced CBS staple will premiere on Thursday, Sept. 20 in an episode...Tags: Livestock Farming, Wrestling, Radio, CBS Corp., Civil Unrest
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Cops on Hunt for Drugstore Robber
LONG ISLAND, N.Y - Police on Long Island are combing the streets for a man accused of robbing three drugstores in one day. Each of the robberies took place on Sunday, September 14th, and in each instance the suspect flashed a gun and threatened to open...Tags: Lindenhurst (Babylon, New York), CVS Corp., Crime, Law and Justice, Northport, Crimes
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Huntington Woman, 78, Foils Armed Robbery
A 78-year-old Huntington woman and her daughter resisted an armed robbery Tuesday in East Northport, police said, resulting in the arrest of a man for that and two other armed robberies. Christopher Norowski, 20, of 45 Meridian Ave., Kings Park, was...Tags: Elwood (Huntington, New York), Crime, Law and Justice, Northport, Crimes, Theft
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Suffolk's Sen. Flanagan draws notice on upstate circuit
Spin CycleSen. John Flanagan (R-C-East Northport), already mentioned in this space as a possible future statewide-office prospect for the Republicans, has been gripping and grinning with some of the prominent civic types in western New York alongside Majority...Tags: John Flanagan, New York, Northport, Rockville (Montgomery, Maryland), Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)
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Results are listed in alphabetical order. Times listed indicate when runners crossed the finish line, not their elapsed time. The timing chip is not activated until the runners reach the starting line. Some hometowns were not available. Information...Tags: University Heights, Greenwich, West Palm Beach, LaSalle Bank, Cleveland
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