Friday’s Kitchen Nightmares was touted as the worst restaurant rescue yet and undeniably so; the show took viewers through many emotional highs and lows that one could never imagine. The restaurant under review was Classic American in Babylon, New York owned by Colleen and Naomi, who are former waitresses. They are assisted by Colleen’s son Kevin (Chef) and her boyfriend Dominick (Manager).

Did anyone out there see what was going on when they were filming?

Lets hope that this works out better for Classic American than it did for Peter’s Pasta (RIP).

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

Sadly, this seems to be not the case. According to Newsday, a representative for the daringly coiffed Ms. Polizzi denied the rumor.

Realtor Mary Adams says she believes that high school students circulated the story about the hard-partying reality TV star, whose signature hair style is “The Poof.” “Everybody’s kind of upset about the whole thing,” says Adams of Century 21 American Homes. “Not that you’d want to say you cannot live here, but come on.”

So there you have it, fellow Babylonians and avid Googlers, Jersey Shore is not coming to the South Shore. Now we must all go on with our humdrum lives.

On the other hand, if you’re suffering from a celebrity jones, you may still be able to catch Gordan Ramsey filming at The Classic American restaurant in West Babylon.

From Flickr user viccauron

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 thing, this article in the Beacon points out a bigger project.

The Babylon Public Library Board of Trustees thanks resident and local author, Theresa Santmann, for her generous donation of eight thousand dollars. Ms. Santmann has directed these funds be used for the Library’s Historic Newspaper Project.

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The newspapers are slated to be available online for patrons and researchers to view on library or home computers. When the project is complete, the Library expects to have converted the South Side Signal, Babylon Leader, Babylon Town Leader and the Babylon Beacon, from 1869 to the present. T

I spoke with Aaron Stein some time ago about a project like this and it’s great that someone else had the same idea and is making it happen.

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