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August 30, 2007
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Town puts LIPA on notice: no windfarms in our waters
Bellone dredges up 300-year old Colonial law to defend Town's right to bay bottom
by Tracy Bongianni
Despite an announcement a day earlier that LIPA had abandoned its controversial plan to put up a windfarm off of Jones Beach, Babylon Town officials weren't taking anything for granted. More...
BFD fights car blaze

The Babylon Fire Department responded to a car fire on Wednesday at approximately 3 a.m. They were called to FredrickCourt and responding units found a vehicle with its engine compartment ablaze. The vehicle was up against the house and firefighters worked to contain the fire and ensure that it di... More...

DMV closes Amityville office

The Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) office on Route 110 in is now closed and a new state-ofthe art office has opened in its place in Massapequa, Commissioner David J.Swarts announced this week. "Serving the motoring public of Long Island in the most convenient and efficient manner is a consist... More...

 People/Social
•Local resident ordained into Ministry of Word and Sacrament Lutheran Church
The John Olsen family, of Babylon, celebrated the ordination of Donna Marie (Mrs. John) Olsen into the Ministry of Word and Sacrament of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on Sunday, July 1 at Ascension Lutheran Church in Deer Park. More...
•Meridale Parks Civic Association announces the scholarship winner
•Alexandra Petersen to wed Ryan McCaslin
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 Schools/Sports
•St. Joseph's Babylon CYO track team poses with trophies
Members of St. Joseph's Babylon CYO track team pose with trophies won in the Ron Brown Memorial 400-meter and the Andy Towey Memorial 800-meter competitions held at the St. Boniface Spring Classic track meet in Floral Park on June 9. More...
•Diocese of Rockville Centre compiles time capsule in the spirit of jubilee year
•West Gate Avenue students clean up Venetian Shores
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 Columnists
•Heard It On The Grapevine
ONE OF THE BEST PARTIES OF THE SEASON at the Babylon Yacht Club is always the "Afterguard Party" thrown by the senior members of the club, and last Sunday Joan and Bud St. John and Jill and Barry Corbett carried on the great tradition when they hosted the popular affair. More...
•Pets, Pets, Pets
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 Library
•At the Library . . .
Babylon, 24 S. Carll Ave ¥ 669-1624 •Register for a SAT Preparation Workshop: September 10, 17, 23 & October 1 from 6:15-8:45 p.m. $75 pp fee. •Register for Hiking on L.I.: Tuesday, September 11 from 7-8:30 p.m. A lecture & slide show. More...
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 Events & Bulletin
•THE BEACON'S CALENDAR OF EVENTS
The following are a list of public meetings and special events for the coming week: SATURDAY, September 1 •S.C. Gray Panthers: 1 p.m., West Islip Library. Age & youth working for social & economic justice. Speaker: Kevin McCoy about civil rights issues. More...
•L.I. Dahlia Society to host dahlia show September 1
•Audubon Society to meet
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 Obituaries
•Mary Hayward: lifelong Babylonian
Mary Elizabeth Ryan Hayward, a well-known Babylon native who taught swimming at the Babylon Yacht Club and was golf tournament winner many times over, died August 18, 2007 at North Shore University Hospital. "She was a wonderful person and a lifelong friend of ours," said Jane Kane, a former Baby... More...
•Linda Capitano, Lindenhurt resident and LHS graduate, class of 1969
•John Bergaglio: W. Gilgo Beach resident, former Amityville Kiwanis president
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