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In Syosset, Berry Hill Elementary pupils recently helped with the school's "giving tree," which aided in the collection of hats, scarves and gloves for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Long Island.

Syosset High School's community service-based Interact Club has raised more than $140,000 over the past decade for Gift of Life International, a foundation that provides life-saving heart surgeries to children with congenital heart defects.

Ralph Rotten's Nut Pound on Cold Spring Road has been closed for at least two years.

Nassau County Legislator Judy Jacobs attended the Syosset Chamber of Commerce Christmas Tree Lighting during the annual holiday celebration on Dec. 8. It took place in the parking lot of Astoria Federal Savings Bank, complete with laughter, dancing, singing, hot chocolate and fun for all.

A popular Long Island Southern-style restaurant has come to Wantagh and the South Shore.

Swanson has been a member of the Syosset Fire Department for nearly 50 years. He became a Fire District commissioner in 2011 when a seat was left vacant by a retiring commissioner and will begin his first five-year term in January.

Fifth-graders at Berry Hill Elementary School in Syosset examined different mutations in fruit flies on Dec. 10 during one component of a series of specialized hands-on activities offered through the DNA Learning Center of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Nassau County will provide $48,000 in Capital funds to the Syosset Central School District for the purchase of portable light sets, County Legislator Judy Jacobs, D-Woodbury, recently announced.

Linden Care , a provider of specialty pharmacy services to the pain management industry, has added Anthony D. Luna as executive vice president of sales.

Syosset School District Superintendent Dr. Ronald Friedman gave an insightful presentation on New York State's new standardized tests at a November Board of Education meeting.

Let it snow! A wet, wintery snow is creating a wintery blanket over Syosset Tuesday.

Married for 12 years to financier Danny Porush, mom of three Nancy Porush, 52, of Woodbury, LI, led a life of jaw-dropping extravagance.

Syosset Hospital's own Alan Geiss, MD, director of the Center for Bariatric Surgical Specialties, recently became the first surgeon in the United States to present findings from a clinical trial that combines implanting a Lap Band with surgery that folds the stomach to help increase patients' weight loss.

Here is a rundown of important and notable events happening around Syosset this week.

It's that time of year when the squeeze of tax planning looms as the year's end approaches.

On Monday she returned to her office for the first time in two months - she missed part of that time because of the shutdown and rest related to her autologous stem cell transplant, starting with the preparations.

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Is comedy what it used to be? Noted show biz expert Jack Schnur offers food for thought when he presents an audio-visual program chronicling the 10-year partnership of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.

A Syosset man awoke early Tuesday morning to use the bathroom, only to find a burglar ruffling through his wife's purse, police said.