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“Middle class, working class, poorer residents and business owners cannot afford to pay for their life.

Last week, a Presidential Emergency Board of mediators sided for a second time with the unions in their contract fight with the MTA.

Supervisor Dan Panico said Monday officials were surprised when Verizon expressed interest in the deal. Town officials had come to believe Verizon had no interest in operating in the town, he said.

Two decades to the day after Patrick Mapleson was struck by a cement truck and killed while filling potholes in Eastport, his family, friends and fellow state transportation road crew remembered him Tuesday by planting a maple tree in his honor and urging drivers to pay attention in work zones.

The average price for a gallon of gasoline hit $3.64 Wednesday on Long Island, up 20 cents from last week and nearly 80 cents above local fuel prices reported last month, according to AAA Northeast’s online gas price tracker.

During the period of the coldest weather, between Jan. 23 and Feb. 9, use of the Island's biggest power plants, including in Northport and Port Jefferson, increased 260% compared with the prior year, according to National Grid Ventures, which owns them.