By Mike White 🇺🇸 May 21, 2026

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🏕️ Good morning, campers.

Sorry for the delayed newsletter!

🏆 GLI has just won its 3rd Telly Award, and this time it's Gold. (This is our third Telly; now we have a Bronze, Silver and Gold.

Here's the video that took it home for us.

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🇺🇸 Hope you all have a nice, relaxing Memorial Day.

Be sure to go to your community parade.

Weather: If you don't know it already, it's chilly today, with scattered showers. Temps will be falling to around 62 by 5 p.m. ☁️

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1. Wantagh rallies around fearless youth lacrosse goalie facing battle of his life

🙏🏼 Last month, Jack woke up one morning complaining that he wasn’t feeling right. As a lacrosse and football player, Jack has dealt with aches and injuries his entire youth sports career, but this time it was different.

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2. Homeless woman arrested for removing head from East Islip church’s Jesus statue

✝️ Surveillance video and help from the community led to the arrest Wednesday of a homeless woman accused of removing the head from a Jesus statue at St. Mary’s Church last week, police confirmed.

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3. That nationally viral ‘0-bedroom’ Selden home sees big price drop

📰 The tiny Selden home went wildly viral in part beacuse it was a “0-bedroom” property — a quirk caused by its sleeping setup and local listing rules, realtor Denise Beckman told Greater Long Island, which was first to report on the home being listed at $330,000 in March.

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More headlines to highlight

💧 Greenlawn once again claimed Suffolk's top prize in the Island's annual drinking water contest, cementing its dynasty status. Bayville took Nassau’s top honor.

📱 A Best Buy employee is accused of secretly sending intimate photos from a customer's phones to himself while transferring data at the Huntington Station store.

☕ Patchogue’s popular CoHo Coffee House is expanding into a larger space in Central Square as crowds continue pouring through the doors.

🌉 Emergency repairs on the Smith Point Bridge are expected to wrap up just in time for Memorial Day weekend traffic.

🥪 The former Stone Soupe in East Setauket has officially entered its “Break Room Café” era under new ownership.

🔪 A Mastic man is accused of stabbing another driver during a road rage confrontation, according to Suffolk police.

🚨 A Sayville woman has been arrested after police say she struck a jogger with her SUV and drove away.

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