Monthly Archives: December 2014

By CARL MACGOWAN  carl.macgowan@newsday.com State officials have awarded a $1.5 million economic development grant to a Yaphank multiuse development to be built at the site of the shuttered Parr Meadows racetrack. The grant — which will help fund construction of a boulevard, a hotel and a sewage treatment plant at the Meadows at Yaphank residential …

The second annual Pearl Harbor Day Patriotic Tree Lighting Ceremony took place on Sunday, December 7th, 2014 at Bartlett Pond Park.  Depsite the cold and windy conditions, a crowd of more than 100 gathered to honor the memories of those lost 73 years ago during the surprise Japanese attack on our US Navy, the dreaded …