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By Mike White · May 8, 2025

☕ Good morning, Long Island!

🌥️ Today will be mostly cloudy through mid morning, then becoming sunny with a high near 71.

🗞️ For our newcomers, I hand-select top stories, great reads, fun events and trends that Long Islanders care about — twice weekly.

✍🏼 Feel free to respond to this email with feedback.

✉️ Oh, and forward to five friends!

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First, Breeze Airways announces nonstop flights from L.I. to Wilmington

🛫 Breeze Airways, which started flying out of MacArthur in 2022, also offers nonstop flights to Fort Myers, Sarasota, and Vero Beach in Florida, Charleston, Norfolk and Richmond, Va., and Raleigh-Durham.

✈️ Also, if you’re flying JetBlue into JFK Airport, your Uber pickup spot is no longer curbside — it’s at the AirTrain’s Howard Beach station.

Second, Bald Hill Fair returns today with fireworks, circus acts, robot cars ...

🎪 The Bald Hill Fair is back today, May 8, for the 2025 carnival season with 11 days of rides, food and family fun at the Catholic Health Amphitheater in Farmingville.

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🍻 Fadeley’s Deli Pub, located at 422 W. Main Street, is hosting its grand opening celebration on Friday, May 9, starting at 2 p.m.

🖥️ And PayMore Stores, the rapidly expanding electronics resale franchise founded in Massapequa, is opening in West Hempstead on May 10.

Third, Arboretum complex adds nearly 300 rental units to Farmingville

🪴 Tuesday's ribbon-cutting wrapped up a multi-year project that brought 491,000 square feet of housing and a 7-acre park to 20 Maple Lane.

More GLI news & sports

🏈 Two former Long Island high school football stars are getting a shot at the NFL.

✝️ Amityville’s Sister Francis Dominici Piscatella has become the world’s oldest living nun. God doesn’t want her yet, is how she explains it.

🏥 Rite Aid is closing all 178 of its stores statewide starting in June, according to multiple news reports.

⚽ The American Soccer Club New York will begin play on Long Island this spring as part of the National Premier Soccer League.
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