By Mike White 🇺🇸 May 14, 2026

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MEET OUR BELOVED SPONSORS

GLI's Greater Sayville coverage is funded in part by The Shed, your scratch kitchen for brunch and dinner daily in W. Sayville. The Shed also has locations in Huntington, Westbury, Plainview and Mohegan Sun.

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1. Dom’s Famous Chicken Fingers getting closer to opening in Plainview

🐔 Plainview will mark their first standalone location. The brand built a loyal following inside Dominick’s Deli in New Hyde Park, where Dom's earned a reputation among fans as one the Island’s go-to spots for chicken.

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2. Connetquot teacher fights leukemia as community launches fundraiser

🙏🏼 The Ronkonkoma community has launched a fundraising effort to support a fifth-grade teacher at Conntequot’s John Pearl Elementary School, as she battles an aggressive form of blood cancer.

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3. Levittown’s Nick Roselli turns Ducks opportunity into Mets reunion

🧢 After being released by the Mets on April 1, Roselli signed with the Long Island Ducks, returning to the place where his baseball journey began. Less than three weeks later, he was back with the Mets.

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More news to note

💰 Nike is facing a class-action lawsuit alleging the company violated New York labor law by paying employees biweekly instead of weekly.

🕯️ Hundreds gathered in Sayville to honor beloved Nassau police officer Edward Richards, who died after a battle with 9/11-related cancer.

🥗 NYC-born salad chain Just Salad has opened its 10th Long Island location in North Babylon — with another Suffolk spot already on the way.

🏡 A 596-square-foot Rocky Point cottage somehow squeezes in two bedrooms — and just hit the market for $399K.

COPS & COURTS

💎 Three Suffolk men are accused of pulling off a sophisticated $1 million Valley Stream heist while the homeowner was away on vacation.

💵 A Holtsville man is accused of embezzling nearly $444,000 from his East Moriches employer over a five-year span, police said.

✈️ A Roslyn man has admitted to smuggling an Iranian tied to a U.S.-designated terror group into the country through Mexico, federal prosecutors said.

🎡 A Dix Hills mother says her family was harassed and mocked after bringing their autistic son to a trampoline park birthday party.

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Greater Babylon coverage is funded in part by The Argyle Theatre, where Broadway comes to Babylon Village. Click here for tickets to The Prince of Egypt, starting April 16 and running through June 7.