Many thanks to all who attended our 13th annual Pearl Harbor Day Patriotic Tree Lighting Ceremony at Bartlett Pond Park on Sunday, December 7th, 2025, the 84th anniversary of the Date which will Live in Infamy. We displayed Jim Eagle’s burial flag – Jim’s story of surviving Pearl Harbor, as told to Longwood students a …
Read More →Please join us on Sunday, December 7th, 2025 at Bartlett Pond Park for our 13th Annual Pearl Harbor Day Patriotic Holiday Tree Lighting. Start time is 12:30pm. We will recount the Day of Infamy and how the story of one man’s survival inspired the Longwood Veterans Project. That man is Jim Eagle; his burial flag …
Read More →Many thanks to all who braved the wind, chill and SNOW to participate in our 2025 Veterans Day Ceremony at Bartlett Pond Park on Tuesday, November 11, 2025. Scout Troops 560 and 433 presented the colors, LHS HS Seal of Civics students explained and hoisted the SAR flag procured by MICA, our FD members placed …
Read More →Please join us for our 17th annual Veterans Day Commemoration on Tuesday, November 11th at 11am at Bartlett Pond Park.
Read More →Many thanks to all who participated in our ninth annual Gold Star Families Day Recognition Ceremony on Sunday, September 28, 2025 at Bartlett Pond Park in Middle Island. This is one of the few Gold Star ceremonies held on Long Island. Community members gathered near the Gold Star monument for songs, prayers, readings, remarks, wreath …
Read More →24 hour rain delay, The Longwood Alliance, Legislator Chad Lennon’s reps Quentin Everett Palifka and Kayla Jayde, and hosts the Middle Island Fire Department welcomed the amazing group Streetfighter to the MIFD HQ on Sunday September 7th. With a creative positioning of the SC show mobile and the roomy fire house bays empty of fire …
Read More →Thunderstorms are possible this afternoon and this evening, so we are postponing the Streetfighter concert until tomorrow, Sunday, September 7th. Same location and times: MIFD HQ picnic area, gates at 5pm, show from 6-8pm. See you then!
Read More →Join us for our next Free Community Concert featuring StreetFighter on Saturday, Sep 6th from 6-8 pm at the Middle Island Fire Department HQ picnic area. Gates open at 5pm. Rain date is Sunday, Sep 7th, same times. Enjoy all the songs of The Rolling Stones. See if you can tell the difference between StreetFighter’s …
Read More →The Longwood Alliance, Middle Island Fire Dept and SC Legislator Chad Lennon reps Kayla MacKay and Quentin Palifka welcomed the Eagle River Band to town on Saturday, August 23 at the MIFD HQ park. After a wonderful rendition of our National Anthem by Quentin, Alliance President Gail Lynch-Bailey introduced the debut thusly: “I Can’t Tell …
Read More →“I can’t tell you why, but even if you weren’t standing on a corner in Winslow Arizona, you can still get a peaceful easy feeling” at our next Free Community Concert featuring the Eagle River Band-Saturday, Aug 23rd, 6-8 pm at the Middle Island Fire Department HQ picnic area. Gates open at 5pm. Rain date …
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