Blue Point News

The Brookhaven Town Board on Tuesday approved most of Supervisor Mark Lesko's proposals for reorganizing town government.

Dr. Benjamin Luft announces the opening of Stony Brook University Medical Center's latest first responder clinic.

Police are investigating the stabbing of a security guard outside a Long Island club Sunday.

There's a new commanding officer in town. Inspector Robert Oswald has been promoted to commanding officer of the Suffolk County Police Department's 6th Precinct, taking the place of Inspector Frank Stallone, who was elevated to deputy chief in the office of the county Chief of Detectives.

From healthcare to law, engineering to finance, manufacturing to education, every major industry is represented by its 400,000 active members.

A fisherman in hip waders casts into the surf at Smith Point Park. Significant erosion was evident on the beach after last week's nor'easter. A Long Island state senator has asked Gov.

Blowing off steam at Louis 649 after too much jigger science. Behind the various cocktail bars he tends, Frank Cisneros mixes drinks that require precious attention.

Main American scientist born Oct. 14, 1914, Washington, D.C., U.S. died May 31, 2006, Blue Point, N.Y. American physicist who, with Koshiba Masatoshi , won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2002 for detecting neutrino s. Riccardo Giacconi also won a share of the award for his work on X-rays. Davis received a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1942.

Today, October 9th, at the Henrietta Acampora Center in Blue Point, Suffolk County will be having it's Influenza and Pneumonia Vaccination Clinic from 1:30pm to 3:00pm. Adults over the age of 18 with a Medicare card and no HMO can get the shot for free.

"I can attest that underwater, cruising toward you out of the gloom with the confidence of the invincible, a 12ft great white looks like a locomotive with malice in mind." - Peter Benchley, author of Jaws .

Cask beer is the brew at its purest: unfiltered, unpasteurized, served from a cask.

The state Environmental Facilities Corp. has signed off on a deal to cut in half a $5.2- million stimulus grant to a Brookhaven Empire Zone industrial park and give that money to Patchogue 's sewage plant instead.

Jeffery Bevis Jeffrey Bevis of Blue Point, NY has been a photographer for practically his entire life.

The new majority in the State Senate may find itself locked out of its ornate chamber Wednesday, which would force it to meet in a nearby office building or park.

New York State Senator Craig M. Johnson announces the passage of important legislation that protects firefighters from legal liability when operating fire trucks.

The St. Photios Foundation will honor architect Steven Papadatos at the opening reception of the 2009-10 Shrine temporary exhibition, "Steven Papadatos: A Retrospective of One Man's 40-year Career." Several of Papadatos's designs in ecclesiastical structures will be showcased in the Shrine museum from June 25 through April 30, 2010.

You could call them a few lucky ducklings, thanks to the Brookhaven Animal Shelter.