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Plans for a new bridge date back a decade, when county officials said the existing structure was at the end of its design life.

John Durso, president of the Long Island Federation of Labor, said clean energy investment is creating opportunities that extend far beyond the construction phase.

“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.