Dolly Parton Day, a Nor’easter, and a Weekend That Moved: Your Town of Babylon Guide
Last updated Friday, September 25 at 8:30 AM. We are keeping this page current all weekend — organizers, send us your changes and we will post them. TODAY IS DOLLY PARTON DAY September 25 — 9 to 5 — and the first one without her Dolly Parton died on...
Babylon Weekend Briefing: Whiskey Down Comes to East Main, a Rabid Raccoon at a Babylon Home, and Two Scares at Wyandanch Schools — September 13–19, 2026
Header images: Main Street storefront, Babylon Village — DanTD / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Raccoon (file photo, Central Park) — Rhododendrites / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wyandanch station at dusk — TheCatalyst31 /...
This Weekend in Babylon: 44 Things to Do, Sept 18–20 — Music on the Water, Farmers Markets & Pumpkin Fests
Forty-four things to do between tonight and Sunday. Friday is 81 and sunny, Saturday is the perfect fall day, and Sunday wants to rain on the pumpkins. Here's the honest version of the weekend. Friday and Saturday are gifts — music on the water tonight, two farmers...
Babylon This Week: 40+ Things to Do Before Fall Officially Starts
Forty-six events, Monday through Friday. Six libraries opened their fall season at once — and the forecast still thinks it’s summer. Fall officially starts on September 22nd. Nobody told the forecast. We've got sun all five days, highs running from 71 to 79, and not a...
Babylon Weekend Briefing: A Memorial for the Ones Who Died After 9/11, Fake Invoices From Town Hall, and a Haunted House Condemned — September 6–12, 2026
Header images: Tribute in Light, New York City — Wikimedia Commons, public domain · Babylon Town Hall, North Lindenhurst — Infrastorian / Wikimedia Commons, CC0 · Robert Moses State Park, Field 4 — Anthony22 / Wikimedia Commons, CC...
25 Years and Fourteen Additional Names — Babylon’s 9/11 ceremony unveils a new Memorial
Plus 24 Local Events including the Annual Fair this Weekend Fourteen families will see their loved ones’ names for the first time on Friday. Twenty-five years. That is what Friday marks, and it is why this guide starts quietly. Before the bands and the beach bars and...
Town of Babylon to Unveil New Post-9/11 Memorial at Friday’s 25th Anniversary Ceremony
Fourteen families have not yet seen the memorial that carries their loved ones' names. On Friday evening, the covering comes off. Twenty-five years after September 11, 2001, the Town of Babylon will gather at the water on Ocean Parkway and do something it has never...
Happy Labor Day, Babylon — Now Let’s Talk About Your Q4 ~ Sept 7-11, 2026
Back to School Happened. Nobody Mentions Back to Business. It is Labor Day. It is 78 degrees and sunny. Close this and go outside — the rest of it will keep until tomorrow. Then, at 7 o’clock tonight, somebody walks down to the Babylon Village pool and...
Babylon Weekend Briefing: Amityville Calls Off Its Football Season, a Deadly Week on Route 110, and a 121 MPH Guilty Plea – August 30 – September 5, 2026
Header images: Amityville Village Hall — Abductive, Wikimedia Commons, CC0 · NY Route 110 at NY 109 — Doug Kerr, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Southern State Parkway entrance — Dougtone, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 By I Love...
