Category Archives: In The News

Snowpocalypse 2010!

December 29, 2010 – 11:04 pm
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Your Babylon Village Home For All Things Snooki

November 16, 2010 – 6:23 pm

If she’s got McCain’s approval, I can’t see why we wouldn’t welcome her to Lucinda Drive.

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Is Snooki Buying A House In Babylon?

November 8, 2010 – 11:02 pm

Is Snooki, star of MTV’s “Jersey Shore”, moving to Babylon, perhaps purchasing a home on Lucinda Drive. There was some chatter about this very thing as last week’s Babylon Rotary meeting and this blog has been getting a good number of hits from people searching for this vital information. Sadly, this seems to be not [...]

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South Side Signal Available Online

October 10, 2010 – 11:20 am

Commenter MetroProletarian points us toward Suffolk Historic Newspapers where we can read back issues of the South Side Signal, the local Babylon paper, from 1869 through 1879. The interface is kind of clunky and you might go blind trying to read the scans, but it’s very cool nonetheless. If you’re interested in this sort of [...]

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Happy Easter

April 4, 2010 – 12:05 pm

Happy Easter Rabbit…hooray! Return to regular blogging starts this week.

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The NY Times Loves Barrique

January 17, 2010 – 10:54 am

As Metroproletarian mentioned in the comments yesterday, The New York Times trekked out to our little village to review Barrique, the new restaurant/wine bar on Deer Park Ave. Full Bottles to Light Pours: A Spot for Wine Lovers Barrique takes its name from a type of barrel used in winemaking; bottles, barrels and wooden wine [...]

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Old Fashioned Village Christmas

December 5, 2009 – 2:00 am
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Vegan Goodies

November 30, 2009 – 12:19 am

I’m a committed carnivore, but I couldn’t let this New York Times mention of a Babylon Village business. Moo-Cluck is a bakery here in the Village that makes allegedly tasty vegan treats. [NY Times] Vegan Fare One source for vegan sweets on Long Island is Moo-Cluck, a largely wholesale bakery in Babylon that sells to [...]

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Going the extra mile

November 29, 2009 – 1:16 am

A good article in the NY Times about local Realtors going the extra mile for their listings. A Little Alfredo With That Listing? A mention of Winkler Real Estate In the interest of keeping his clients happy, after a ranch house he listed was inspected, Ed Schmid, an agent with Winkler Real Estate in West [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving

November 26, 2009 – 8:55 am

As God as my witness, I thought that turkeys could fly.

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