County leaders are hoping the implementation of a Long Island Innovation Zone – which includes Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory as one of its many cogs – will help stem the “brain drain.”

Described as a “comprehensive, regionally-transformative plan to make Suffolk a more attractive place for young people and high-tech businesses,” the Innovation Zone – or I-Zone for short – calls for widespread changes.

Read on to learn the full story!

Ever notice that weekends start early in summer, especially for those who can afford a place in the Hamptons? 

At least one local real estate company has taken notice, and has put together a program to sell Hamptons-bound New Yorkers on Lloyd Neck not only as an ideal place to live, but as an alternative to rushing off to the Hamptons every weekend.  

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Holly Levis-Dolan knows radio and she loves her dogs. 

The two don’t typically mix, the owner of three canine companions admitted, but as the former New York City radio personality of more than 25 years pondered the idea of opening up her own per supply and grooming shop, she found that the two businesses boiled down to the same thing: “hits.” 

Read on to learn more about her unique business, and make sure to stop by and check it out for yourself as well!

Walk into Prasada Yoga Studio and you might think you’re in a rustic, unfurnished home. Only the orange mats lined up on the floor will tell you that it is, in fact, a yoga studio. There are no mirrors. There is no merchandise. There is only yoga.

Read on to learn about Studio Director Mel Salvador, her incredible vision, and how you can stop by to soak in all her yoga has to offer!

When sisters and Cold Spring Harbor natives Tori, 24, and Leigh Mardovich, 28, realized that many friends and colleagues in their age group were getting married, they saw a business opportunity.

Read on to learn about their unique venture, and make sure to stop by soon to browse their fabulous wares! 

Huntington native Claudia Fortunato-Napolitano took the reins as the Huntington Historical Society’s Executive Director on Monday.

“I’m really excited to be with at the Historical Society; it’s such an important organization…I grew up here, I know what makes this town so wonderful and in part it’s that historical character. I’m just excited to share that with people,” she said.

Read on to learn more about this exciting development!

When stepping into Sip Tea Lounge, visitors are effectively stepping into a world of their choosing.

Transformed by the soothing, welcoming environment that owner Nicole Basso has carefully crafted, customers to the lounge have no shortage of choices when deciding where to land.

Read on now for the full scoop on this incredibly unique Huntington village business!

Even though she never technically left, Huntington village’s very own psychic Giovanna – and her gifts – have been reborn in the form of a beautiful Main Street storefront.

“Huntington called me back… I want to make it my home again,” Giovanna Rouplo, a psychic who has shared her gifts in the village for nearly 30 years, said.

Read on to learn more about Giovanna, her practice, and how you can get your special reading today!

Huntington’s Carol Schlitt is no stranger to the law, and her law firm is no stranger to her clients.

“We emphasize personal contact with our clients,” Schlitt said. “We look at [our work] as a true partnership… The closer we are with our clients and the more information we give them, then the better job we can do for them.”

Read on to learn more about Schlitt's organization, its goals, and how the firm has become a fixture of our Huntington community!

Brad Rosen of Station Sports Family Fun Center in Huntington Station said he opened his outdoor venue on Depot Road - featuring 18 holes of miniature golf, batting cages, target paintball, and a snack shack - to fill a void in the community.

Read on to learn more, including how his facilities have provided great quantities of family fun for those of all ages over his years in business!

While you may not expect to be able to buy a fragrance called “Dog’s Breath” at an ordinary shop, Scentsational of Huntington is no ordinary shop, and owner Sarah Latham said it may not be the funniest name she’s seen in her 35 years making custom fragrances for the Huntington community.

Read on to learn about this unique shop and how you can stop by today!

Coworkers, yes, but the people behind Huntington-based Signature Premier Properties prefer to think of themselves as more than that: they’re family members.

And that family’s home is, and always has been, Huntington – the town where Peter Morris, owner of the real estate firm, first set up shop in 2007 and began selling homes to the people of the north shore.

Read on to learn more about the history of this local fixture and how they work diligently to serve our community!

Maintaining its Sports Therapy And Rehabilitation Services (STARS) program for nearly 20 years, for North Shore-LIJ, adding a STARS office to Huntington was just a move that made sense, said Daniel Vaknin, assistant vice president for North Shore-LIJ outpatient therapy network/STARS.

Read on to learn why they believe the Huntington STARS office will be a natural fit in the community, and what it is planned to offer its patients!

There’s a new currency in town. Think of “BID Bucks” as a Huntington Station coupon – good anywhere that pays Huntington Station Business Improvement District (BID) taxes.

Leaders of the local business improvement district are looking to launch the Huntington Station-focused program in time for this coming Christmas, which President Keith Barrett said is designed to get people to shop locally and support businesses in the hamlet.

Read on now to learn how these "BID Bucks" can be obtained and used to help stimulate the local economy!

For 15 years, Huntington native Rob Steinert has been working with baseball and softball players across the northeast, including three in the MLB.

Steinert has been able to do this with a simple philosophy: sacrifice a bit of today for success in the future – and he’s teaching that at CGI Baseball, Inc. in Huntington Station.

Read on to learn how practice does indeed make perfect at CGI Baseball, whose emphasis on long-term growth helps its participants thrive, both at baseball and beyond!

If you ask Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty COO Thomas Calabrese what sets the company apart, he’ll tell you the real estate agency founded out of Cold Spring Harbor in 1922 is selfless: 93 years later, the leaders at Daniel Gale put their customers and their agents before themselves.

It’s one of the reasons why they've had success, he said.

Read on to learn how this mantra has helped the agency become such a trusted, local fixture over the years!

McGough Academy School of Irish Dance stepped into Huntington in style last weekend with a grand opening celebration complete with a world-famous Irish step dancer.

Read on to learn more about the academy, owner Meagan McGough's unique vision, and how McGough has created a environment that helps her students to thrive!

Longtime Huntington resident Dr. Robert E. Scully opened up his first Medicenter in Huntington in 1990, when urgent care centers were neither as popular nor taken as seriously as they are now. Scully said he saw walk-in clinics as the future of medicine and the epitome of responsive patient care.

“I saw it as the new thing; it was what patients wanted,” Scully said.

Read on to learn how Scully's vision has grown since then and how his attention to both quality and patient convenience has made MediCenter the successful venture it is today! 

Meet Annabelle, the inspiration for a new Northport-based startup called Sweet Annabelle’s that specializes in vegan ice cream.

“Like all farmed animals including those whose faces we never see, and whose lives and suffering we give little thought to, Annabelle and her friends are sentient beings worthy of our compassion,” Sweet Annabelle’s mission statement reads. “Yet sadly, particularly in today's cruelly devised factory farm system, millions upon millions of animals are forced to endure short, miserable lives punctuated with immense pain and suffering.”

Read on to learn how Sweet Annabelle's is working at turning the public onto vegan, cruelty-free food, using their business venture to aid the animals and causes near and dear to their hearts!