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March 22: Islip Pines Town Board Hearing

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A public hearing will be held at Islip Town Hall at 7:30 p.m. regarding a proposed rezoning associated with the planned Islip Pined mixed-used development at the corner of Vets and Sunrise highways in Holbrook. It's expected to be a packed house as local chambers of commerce have to the community to oppose the Serota Properties project, which the chambers say will derail commerce on Main Street.

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The latest Natural Healing column from Dr. Yvonne Kleine will post on Patch later today. This week's topic is a somber, but important one: preventing suicide.

Several friends of Billy Schettino, the Blue Point teen killed in a on the LIE last week, plan to lobby the county to turn the former Blue Point Laundry property on Park Avenue into an "official open skatepark" in honor of Billy. We'll tell you why they are pushing for it and the chances of it actually becoming a reality.

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