Stormy relations have led to the firing of the Village of Asharoken’s stormwater commissioner, who says he didn’t see the dismissal coming. “I was in shock,” said Dr. Avrum H. Golub, whose five-year tenure was voluntary. Golub and the Board of Trustees argued over the scope of changes necessary to bring the village into compliance with new environmental standards. A central issue was a series of reports that Golub filed, which apparently didn’t sit well with Mayor William Kelly, who named Golub to the post in 2003 but described his appointee’s reports as “draconian” in an article by Kevin Mulryan in the Times of Northport.
Despite what you may have heard, nice guys don’t always finish last. Retired New York Islander Clark Gillies, a member of the NHL Hall of Fame and a Dix Hills resident, continues to score with locals. He recently pledged to give the Huntington Hospital $225,000 for the new Pediatric Emergency Care Center. Gillies' recent donation comes on the coattails of another, larger contribution to the hospital. In 2006, he donated $1 million to build a pediatric care center, Mike Koehler reports in a story in the Half Hollow Hills newspaper.
And the Times of Huntington reports that students in the Huntington and South Huntington school districts have gotten so used to the presence of Suffolk County Police Officer Drew Fiorillo that they notice — and speak up — when he's not around. "They went from 'Why is the police in my school?' to 'Why isn’t he there?' " Fiorillo joked in a story by Arlene Gross in The Times of Huntington.