By Mike White 🇺🇸 Aug. 6, 2026

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☀️ Good morning, Long Island!

🏖️ Here are five reasons to love Long Island Sound beaches:

1. Rocks aren't as bad as you think, if you know where to go (i.e., Sunken Meadow State Park). 2. No dangerous riptides to worry about, especially if you have small children. 3. The water is warmer than the ocean. 4. Cool views of Connecticut. 5. The sunsets are magical.

Bonus reason: They're typically much cleaner than the bay beaches.

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Weather: Today will be mostly cloudy in Levittown before gradually becoming sunny with a high near 89. ⛅

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1. Belmont Park’s historic role in horse racing is changing with new Championship Series

🏇🏾 The new concept gives owners and trainers another route to chase prestige and prize money. Instead, horses can compete across six races from May through the championship race in September.

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2. 7th Street Burger picks Levittown for latest Long Island location

🍔 Just a year after opening its first Long Island restaurant in Mineola (former Rex location), the 7th Street Burger chain is taking another bite out of the local burger scene with a new location in Levittown.

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3. Suffolk Police rescue five men from sinking boat near Northport

🚣🏾‍♂️ The men were fishing aboard a 17-foot vessel in waters adjacent to the Village of Asharoken when it began taking on water about 5:25 p.m.

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More headlines to highlight

🍞 Skinnygirl founder Bethenny Frankel opening East Quogue pop-up café

📚 This Eagle Scout project is one for the books, 5 years in the making

🥊 PFL expects Long Island return after successful UBS Arena debut​

🫡 Sayville’s Ronald Bergmann, retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, dies at 90

🍪 Crumbl Cookies opening soon at The Shops at SunVet in Holbrook

COPS & COURTS

🚨 Driver charged in DWI wreck that killed motorcyclist in Lindenhurst

🗞️ Columbia med student shot in face during knife confrontation with Nassau Police in Westbury

🚓 Shirley man steals police license plate readers, cops say

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Summer Never Ends brings cannabis expo, DJs to Patchogue

New York’s legal cannabis industry and Long Island’s nightlife scene will come together for one of the summer’s biggest events at Stereo Garden in Patchogue on Saturday, Aug. 29. Read all about it.

Greater Babylon coverage is funded in part by The Argyle Theatre, where Broadway comes to Babylon Village. Click here for tickets to Beautiful running now through Aug. 30.