Community

Leading nurses from Long Island's hospitals and nursing education programs gathered at the Woodbury Country Club to give recognition to their nurse peers at the Nurse of Excellence Award Ceremony.

Join the Southampton Village and the Southampton Animal Shelter Foundation in celebrating the opening of the Southampton Village Dog Park at Lola Prentice Memorial Park.

They may be just babies, but according to Kent Animal Shelter, kittens and puppies can go into heat as early as four and five months old, and have their first litter just two months later.

"We continue to look for new and creative ways to engage and teach kids while they enjoy themselves at CMEE," said Stephen Long, CMEE's Executive Director. "Our new mini-golf course achieves both of those goals by making it fun to learn about physics while navigating each hole."

The eighth annual Kites For A Cure raised nearly $60,000 to be donated to innovative lung cancer research.

Hudson River HealthCare, a non-for-profit Federally Qualified Health Care (FQHC) system hosted a ribbon cutting today at Southampton Hospital to commemorate the hospital's opening of a new state-of-the-art health care facility, the Kraus Family Health Center of the Hamptons.

Uniting Against Lung Cancer will kick off the summer season in Southampton with its eighth annual, "Kites for a Cure" event at Coopers Beach.

East End Arts is holding their 18th Annual Community Mosaic Street Painting Festival in downtown Riverhead.

Citizens for Access Rights is coming together once again for their annual summer fundraiser to raise awareness and collect proceeds to benefit the protection of access to public beaches from efforts to privatize them.

Each summer, the Fresh Air Fund Volunteer Host Family Program is responsible for providing over 4,000 inner-city boys and girls with host families in suburban areas in over thirteen states.