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Pumpkins on the Lake: The Halloween Traditions the Town of Babylon Keeps Coming Back To
Ryan WilliamsFor the 13th year, carved jack-o'-lanterns floated across Belmont Lake on Saturday night. Here's how the Great Jack-o'-Lantern Sail works, the other traditions that come back every October, and what's new on the calendar for Halloween night.
Read moreElection Day Is Tuesday. Here Is What Is on a Town of Babylon Ballot.
Ryan WilliamsGovernor, Congress, State Senate and Assembly, two county offices and three sets of judges. Plus where you vote, what to do if your name is not in the book, and the last day for mail ballots.
Read moreBudget Day, Parking Rules and a Car Wash: The Town's Hearing Calendar
Ryan WilliamsOne Town Board afternoon on November 5 carries the 2027 budget, the tax-cap law and six street-by-street parking and stop-sign changes. Plus the Zoning Board on Thursday and what is already booked for mid-November.
Read moreA Cannabis Dispensary Wants to Open on Deer Park Avenue in North Babylon
Ryan WilliamsThe applicant needs the Zoning Board to allow a use the zone does not permit and to drop the Town's 750-foot buffer from homes to zero. The hearing is Thursday, November 12.
Read moreTwo Town Teams, One Thursday: Lindenhurst and West Babylon Play for a Spot in the County Final
Ryan WilliamsLindenhurst upset Sachem East 4–1 and West Babylon, back in the playoffs for the first time in nearly a decade, got past East Islip. Plus: Lindenhurst outlasts North Babylon 45–40, and the rest of the week across the Town’s eight high schools.
Read moreDeer Park’s School Pool Is Getting a Second Life: $3 Million From the State to Rebuild It
Ryan WilliamsThe money, announced Oct. 17 and shared with families at homecoming, adds to $850,000 already secured to bring the district’s pool back into use, for swim teams, water safety lessons and more.
Read moreThe Students Ran the Show: A Cape, a Step Team and 500 Red Bows at Town Hall
Ryan WilliamsAt this year's Red Ribbon Town Hall, the young people did more than perform. They planned the program and emceed it, and one of them handed the organizer a cape before it even started.
Read moreTwo College Friends, a Night Shift, and an Amityville Company That Cleans in 38 States
Ryan WilliamsThe Amityville Chamber of Commerce named Imperial Cleaning its September 2026 Business of the Month. The company started more than 30 years ago with its two founders selling by day and cleaning by night.
Read moreGive Blood on Election Day, Stock the Town Pantry Before Thanksgiving
Ryan WilliamsA blood-donor bus outside Babylon Public Library on Tuesday, the Town food pantry's drop-off list, and a few November dates to put on the fridge now.
Read moreTo Everyone Who Teed Up for the Babylon Breast Cancer Coalition: Thank You
Ryan WilliamsOn Monday the coalition took its 1st Annual Golf Classic to Bellport Golf Club. Here is a thank-you to the volunteers, sponsors and golfers, what the money pays for, and how to keep helping after October.
Read moreClocks Fall Back Sunday. Here Is the Ten-Minute Checklist.
Ryan WilliamsDaylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. on November 1. Test the smoke and carbon-monoxide alarms, know New York's 10-year-battery rule, and get ready for a darker ride home.
Read moreRestaurant Week Starts Sunday. Here's Where to Use It in the Town of Babylon.
Ryan WilliamsLong Island Restaurant Week runs Nov. 1 to 8, its 20th year. Post Office Café and The James in Babylon Village, Cebollines Grill in Lindenhurst and Popei’s Clam Bar in Deer Park are on the list.
Read moreA Dispensary Opens on Wellwood Avenue, and a Coffee Shop Is Pitched for a Dark Deer Park Corner
Ryan WilliamsEast Coast Buds is open at 1228 Wellwood Ave. in West Babylon. In Deer Park, a long-empty catering hall and pub at Deer Park and Long Island avenues could become a physical therapy office and a 20-seat cafe.
Read moreThe Town of Babylon's First Election Came Down to 15 Votes
Ryan WilliamsThe Town was born from a referendum in 1872, and its first supervisor won by 15 votes. Forty-five years later, voters approved a Town Hall on Main Street by ballot proposition, and the Town Board moved in during the fall of 1918. The building is now the Town's history museum.
Read morePink October Tees Off Monday: The Babylon Breast Cancer Coalition's First Golf Classic
Ryan WilliamsThe Lindenhurst coalition that drives its neighbors to cancer treatment holds its 1st Annual Golf Classic Monday at Bellport Golf Club, with a $10,000 hole-in-one challenge. Dinner-only seats are $250.
Read moreThe Marathon Starts in Babylon Village. This Year, a North Babylon Runner Won It.
Ryan WilliamsDaniel Cameron, 28, ran 2:41:59 to win Sunday’s Suffolk County Marathon by eight minutes. Plus: West Babylon football falls 28–19 at East Hampton, and North Babylon boys soccer clinches a playoff spot.
Read moreFirst in Her Class at Copiague High: Meet Katelyn Agtuca and the Top Ten of 2027
Ryan WilliamsThe Copiague School District has named its ten highest-ranked seniors. Katelyn Agtuca is valedictorian, Skya Cham is salutatorian, and senior year has barely begun.
Read moreThree Ways to Show Up for the Town Before Halloween
Ryan WilliamsA Red Ribbon youth town hall on Friday, a pantry that never closes, and a night for veterans on October 30.
Read moreLong Island Voted for Its Best Doughnuts. The Winner Is a Food Truck From Wyandanch.
Ryan WilliamsDilly Dilly Donuts NY, run by Hadria and Rich Montilla, fries its mini doughnuts to order and beat last year’s champion. Also this week: Uncle Giuseppe’s brings sausage-and-pepper heroes to North Babylon, and The Pizzeria in Babylon pours a cocktail for Making Strides.
Read moreHe Graduated in 2024. This Month He Came Back to Teach His Old School How to Stitch a Wound.
Ryan WilliamsVamsi Parikh, West Babylon Class of 2024 and now a Stony Brook researcher, brought his synthetic biology team’s work into an Anatomy and Physiology class, along with a bag of bananas and a suturing lesson.
Read moreBabylon Bean Moves Up Main Street, and Breakers Puts Its Building Up for Sale
Ryan WilliamsA 32-year-old coffee shop is relocating, not closing. A Lindenhurst restaurant's owners listed their building and asked the town for help. And the old Hooters site in Farmingdale has a buyer.
Read moreDid the Town's First Settler Sail With Captain Kidd?
Ryan WilliamsIn 1710 Jacob Conklin built the first home in what is now the Town of Babylon, in present-day Wheatley Heights. For three centuries people have said he got the money to do it as one of Captain Kidd's crew. A roadside marker on Colonial Springs Road still says so, carefully.
Read moreA New Real Estate Office on Deer Park Avenue Gets the Chamber's Spotlight
Ryan WilliamsThe Deer Park Chamber of Commerce's October member spotlight is EXIT Realty Enjoy, a brokerage that just opened at 2001 Deer Park Ave.
Read moreNine Hearings, One Thursday Night at Town Hall
Ryan WilliamsThe Zoning Board of Appeals hears nine homeowners' requests on October 22, from a 2.4-inch side-yard request in Wheatley Heights to a seven-part request in Copiague. Here is what is on the list, and how to be heard.
Read moreWhat's on the Town's Hearing Calendar This Week
Ryan WilliamsFour Town boards, four nights. A car wash and a self-storage building still waiting on the Planning Board, rental and accessory-apartment applications across five hamlets, and two roadside price signs back before the Zoning Board.
Read moreA Fire in Wyandanch Shuts a Soup Kitchen That Feeds 150 People a Day
Ryan WilliamsSunday's fire at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church damaged the kitchen behind more than 40 years of daily meals. Nobody was hurt. For now, volunteers are handing out sandwiches, and there is no date for reopening.
Read moreA Carnival on the Bay, a Dog Parade and Ten Days of Halloween
Ryan WilliamsThe Long Island Family Festival finally gets its weekend at Tanner Park, Lindenhurst's Village Square hosts dogs in the morning and trunks at night, and the libraries run the toddler parades. Twelve picks, Thursday through Halloween night.
Read moreEarly Voting Starts Saturday. Three Sites Are in the Town of Babylon.
Ryan WilliamsNine days, October 24 to November 1, and you can use any of Suffolk's 28 early-voting sites. Here are the three in town, the hours, and how to find your Election Day poll site.
Read moreBabylon Just Zeroed Out the Property Tax for Its Most Seriously Disabled Veterans
Ryan WilliamsLocal Law 16 of 2026 passed 5–0 on October 7. If the VA calls you permanently and totally disabled from your service, your primary residence is now fully exempt — and it applies to this roll.
Read moreOn November 5, Babylon Will Ask for Permission to Break the Tax Cap
Ryan WilliamsTwo public hearings, back to back, at 3:00 p.m. on a Thursday: the 2027 preliminary budget, and a local law to pierce the state tax cap.
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