New York State Assemb. James Conte (R-Huntington Station) is working on a bill that would require administrators at Republic Airport to stop adding on to the facility until they create a master plan. “A master plan would be a five year description of where the airport would be expanding or growing,” Conte said in an article by Mike Koehler in the Half Hollow Hills newspaper
Julia O’Brien, a recent graduate of Huntington High School, earned her first college credits backpacking, rappelling and studying nature firsthand as part of 94-day outdoors program known as the National Outdoor Leadership School’s Semester in the Rockies. “I think it was one of the best experiences of my life. I made such great friends. I basically had a blast,” she said in a Mike Koehler story in The Long Islander.
And the Times of Northport gave out a series of year-end awards, including a Woman of the Year and a Man of the Year. Charlotte Koons made the list a Educator of the Year.