Bringing awareness to the effects of alcoholism

This past month, the Bay Shore Al-Anon group put up a billboard to raise awareness of alcoholism and how it affects families. The billboard was located on 3rd Avenue by the railroad tracks. The Bay …

Fire Island Lighthouse

Each week, reporter and history-lover Mariana Dominguez visits a historical location on the South Shore. This week, she made a trip to the Fire Island Lighthouse. Fire Island Lighthouse Open …

Countywide website to support small businesses

On Sept. 9, the Suffolk County Legislature voted unanimously in their General Meeting to pass Resolution 1551-2021, which directs the Department of Economic Development and Planning and the …

COVID-19

Op-ed: Want to beat COVID?

By Amy E. Loeb, EdD, MBA, RN, executive director at Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead The vaccine rollout throughout New …
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Suffolk County, SBU to host virtual COVID-19 vaccine Q&A

Have questions about the COVID-19 vaccine? Suffolk County Office of Minority Health and Stony Brook University Medicine may be able to …
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Town responds to CDC’s relaxed mask guidelines

Last week served as a sigh of relief for many of Islip Town’s roughly 329,600 residents after the Centers for Disease Control …
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The Islip Bulletin - September 16, 2021

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East Islip News

Islip welcomes students back to the classroom

As students disembarked from the iconic yellow buses and family automobiles, they were welcomed back to school on Sep. 2 by Islip School District administration, faculty and staff to start the …

Inaugural grab-and-go Backpack Bash

Islip Town councilman Jim O’Connor, NYS assemblyman Jarett Gandolfo, The Anchor Church, along with local law enforcement agencies, fire rescue, public library and chamber of commerce, co-hosted …

This year’s rules of the school

On Tuesday, Aug. 24, the Islip Union Free School District held its monthly board of education meeting, during which new superintendent Dr. Dennis P. O’Hara presented a slideshow to the …

Islip Terrace News

Handwritten Torah completed

On Sunday, Aug. 15, a celebration was held for the completion of the Islip Community Torah. The Torah took over a year to write by hand by an expert scribe. The Torah helped bring the Islip community …

‘There will always be someone next in line to care for’

The last year at South Shore University Hospital has been a whirlwind of emotions and trauma. Nurses and frontline workers battled a worldwide pandemic, with very little time to stop and process …

Neighbors helping neighbors

On your next trip to pick up school supplies for the upcoming year, why not pick up a few extras for those in need? Here are some local school supply drives that are collecting much-needed items for …

Food & Drink

Newest grocery store opens in Islip

Islip Town supervisor Angie Carpenter and councilman James O’Connor attended the grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony for …
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Best barking coffee around

Otto, a just-over-1-year-old puppy, is the face of an exciting new brew company based in East Islip. Otto’s Coffee Shop is …
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Cooking with a Veteran

This is a great surprise one-pot-dish for people who love mac and cheese. I love to cook this in a coated cast iron so I can go from …
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Eat, drink and paddle

Burning calories while consuming them is now possible. No, this is not a dream. This is the reality at Paddle Pub, a pedal-powered …
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REVIEW: Music-themed Rock City Dogs brings the heat

A vegetarian walks into a hot dog joint... An awful one-liner, for sure, but in my instance it was a beyond (meat) pleasant …
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The spirit of Nashville comes downtown

Two summers ago, Bay Shore Restaurant Committee chairman Mike McElwee took a trip to the Music City, U.S.A. – also known as …
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West Islip News

Weather doesn’t dampen first-day spirits

Despite the wet weather conditions, students throughout the West Islip School District were all smiles as they entered their respective buildings for the start of the 2021-2022 school year on Sept. …

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Islip Hamlet News

A ‘splashin’ summer’

With summer vacation entering its final month, The Islip Bulletin asked readers to celebrate one last hurrah for the season with our August photo submission contest entitled, “Splashin’ …