Category: Local News

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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Header images: Babylon Town Hall, North Lindenhurst — Infrastorian / Wikimedia Commons, CC0...

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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