Category: Local News

The Town pulled elected-official raises out of its 2027 budget and Supervisor Rich Schaffer is taking a $3,700 pay cut, with a vote expected Wednesday; Herbert Hemendinger, who ran Babylon’s parks and beaches for 33 years, died at 93; and two homicide victims unnamed for nearly 50 years have been identified.

Proposed Town taxes and salaries, the West Babylon stabbing sentence, Robert Arleo’s musical, an indoor farmers market and provisional election results — November 1–7, 2026.

The Attorney General’s five-year investigation into the Babylon school district, a fire that closed Tricia’s American Cafe after 29 years, a life sentence in the Gilgo Beach case, and the rest of your week across the Town of Babylon.

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A proposed tax increase, Wyandanch lawsuits and IHOP’s planned move lead 13 local stories, with school milestones, a fundraiser, scam warning, community updates and the week ahead.

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Whiskey Down Diner is days from opening at 175 East Main, a Babylon resident had contact with a rabid raccoon, and Wyandanch schools had a CO2 evacuation and a classroom fire in the same week.

The Town unveils a memorial to residents who died of 9/11 illnesses, a phishing scam sends fake invoices under the Town seal, and Darkness Rising is condemned before Halloween.

Fourteen names are inscribed on the Town’s new Post-9/11 Memorial. It has stood covered since installation — the families have not seen it. The covering comes off Friday at 6 p.m. on Ocean Parkway.

Amityville cancels varsity football over injuries, a woman is killed crossing Route 110 in East Farmingdale, and a Lindenhurst driver admits to 121 mph on the Southern State.

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