Farmingdale resident Beth Loschin and her Hampton Bays boyfriend James Warren were arrested on Aug. 10 for allegedly kidnapping a 15-year-old. According to police, the victim, a resident of Wrentham, Massachusetts, met Warren in an AOL chatroom and agreed to meet him at a local mall. Warren and Loschin drove to Wrentham, met the girl at the store she works at in the mall, and took her in their car, proceeding to New York. FULL STORY

At the Aug. 9 meeting the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) held at the Farmingdale Library to discuss their newly issued proposed cleanup plan for the Liberty Industrial Site in Farmingdale, residents gathered to present their oppositions and concerns regarding the levels of cleanup to be done. FULL STORY

The EPA recently announced its proposed deletion of the Liberty Site from the National Priorities List (NPL) and requests public comment on the decision. The decision to delete the site from the list does not preclude future actions under Superfund. Sites delisted from the NPL remain eligible for remedial actions in the unlikely event that conditions at the site warrant such action. FULL STORY

Farmingdale runners, walkers and wheelchair athletes of all ages and levels are invited to join in the fun on Saturday, Sept. 8 for the second annual Fly With the Angels Run, over a fast, flat four mile course that starts and finishes at Nassau County's Bay Park in East Rockaway. FULL STORY

The Farmingdale Baseball League's 18 and under "A" travel team that plays in the Nassau Babe Ruth League ended their 2001 season in early August as the 4th place finisher County Championship play off tournament. This was the 8th year in succession that FBLI's Babe Ruth A team has been in the season ending playoff championships. No other Babe Ruth team in any division can equal or even come close to this successful run. During this streak Tom Sabellico managed the team for the first 5 years, winning 3 championships, and for the past 3 years George Koch, finishing runner - up twice, managed the team. The team started play back in May, as a very young team, as 12 of the players are 17-years-old or younger and playing in their first year of eligibility under the FBLI "A" team banner. FULL STORY