The town has extended the deadline for the League for Animal Protection of Huntington to vacate its Grateful Paw Cat Shelter in East Northport.

For one civic leader, the opening of Sweet Hollow Park, on the site of the former Meyers Farm, is the culmination of a decade and a half of community organizing, land use deals and many “twists and turns.”

Both county and state lawmakers are trying to put the brakes on a statewide initiative to legalize and regulate ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft.