Farmingville News Archives

“I have gotten so many e-mails and phone calls and people are really ecstatic about this.”

Brookhaven's first dog park is set to open Saturday in Middle Island -- just don't forget your Pooch Pass. via Newsday.com

“An egg is the only food that when you heat it, boil it, put pressure on it, it gets stronger, not weaker, which really symbolizes our people, all people”

By 3 p.m. Saturday, when guests began to arrive at her Farmingville house for a seder, Gail David had spent days preparing.

She had scrubbed her kitchen cabinets, vacuuming the ones she could reach to remove any trace of leavened products, or chametz, which are banned during Passover, the Jewish holiday that began Saturday night with the traditional feast.

For the table, she made sure to pull out the family tablecloth used each Passover and prepare traditional foods like charoset, a dish made of walnuts and apples that is meant to represent mortar used by slaves in Egypt. Read more

Suffolk police are searching for a man they said robbed a Commerce Bank in Farmingville Saturday. via Newsday.com

A graphic on Tuesday misstated the area of the State of Delaware . It encompasses a total of 2,489 square miles. via Newsday.com

A day laborer who was the victim of a hit-and-run that police are investigating as a possible hate crime was released from a hospital Monday.

The victim, a 42-year-old Hispanic man, was struck by a vehicle Sunday morning as he and at least four other laborers waited for work near a gas station at a Long Island Expressway service road, Suffolk County police said.

The man, whose name police didn't release because of the ongoing investigation, suffered a skull fracture after the car jumped the sidewalk and struck him, police Hate Crimes Unit Detective Sgt. Robert Reecks said. The driver left the scene, which is near the victim's home, police said. Read more

The Suffolk County Police Hate Crimes Unit is asking for the public's help as it searches for a driver who went onto a sidewalk and injured a day laborer. via WNBC New York Channel 4

“Unfortunately, what happened, happened, and now I am paying the consequences.”

Adolfo Reyes recalls walking on a sidewalk in Farmingville Sunday morning. He remembers greeting several other Mexican day laborers. via AMNY