
Carl Macgowan
Writer at Newsday
Writer, @newsday journalist, Mets and Islanders, husband. Not necessarily in that order. I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me.
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6 days ago |
newsday.com | Carl Macgowan
Chronic budget deficits placed two Long Island villages on New York's annual list of municipalities designated in "fiscal stress," State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said in a report released Thursday. Island Park, in Nassau County, was one of only three villages across the state listed as having "significant" fiscal stress, the most serious of three categories, the comptroller's office said. Huntington Bay, in Suffolk, was one of four villages "susceptible" to fiscal stress, the office said.
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1 week ago |
newsday.com | Carl Macgowan
Two adjacent Middle Island nursing homes seeking to expand are in a standoff with neighbors and Brookhaven Town that both sides blame on a chronic lack of parking. Staff and visitors to the Surge and Quantum nursing and rehabilitation centers park their cars at the end of driveways of nearby homes, block package deliveries, and take up parking spaces at a nearby park, according to Brookhaven officials and nearby residents who say they are fed up with the situation.
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1 week ago |
newsday.com | Carl Macgowan
Maybe you don't want to lug a bagful of drivers, putters and irons around for a couple of hours. Or maybe you agree with Mark Twain's observation that golf is “a good walk spoiled.”For anyone with an aversion to sand traps and water hazards, the emerging sport of disc golf — played with flying saucers rather than clubs and balls — is coming to Southaven County Park in Brookhaven later this year, Suffolk County officials said.
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2 weeks ago |
newsday.com | Carl Macgowan
Suffolk County on Thursday launched its search for a new corporate partner to lead redevelopment of 48 acres of county-owned land in Ronkonkoma that had been the proposed site for the $2.8 billion Midway Crossing hotel and convention center complex before it was canceled in January by county officials.
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2 weeks ago |
newsday.com | Carl Macgowan
Islip Supervisor Angie Carpenter on Tuesday plans to launch a search for a developer to build a new air terminal at Long Island MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma, following the collapse in January of the $2.8 billion Midway Crossing project, which was to include an air terminal plan.
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