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Ducks Take the Field in 25th Anniversary Home Opener Game By Matt Meduri Long Island’s very own baseball team, the Long Island Ducks, took to the diamond last Saturday for their home opening game of their twenty-five anniversary season. The week prior, members of the organization and the team spoke of what has led them to see such a milestone. “We’ve been consistent,” said Atlantic League of Professional Baseball CEO and Ducks founder Frank Boulton last week at Fan Day. “We’ve had great fans throughout the twenty-five years here on Long Island. But I don’t think that just happens. That happens because the entire organization works all year long. We don’t just put the ‘baseball today’ sign out. It happens because we’re here 365 days, working to make sure that we fulfill our mission of affordable family entertainment.” Indeed, almost 5,400 fans lined the seats, concessions, and the Waddle-In Shop, while the venerable QuackerJack got to entertaining fans and rooting for the flock for the twenty-fifth year in a row.
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QuackerJack gets the crowd riled up (Credit - Matt Meduri)
Kennedy and Romaine Lead Blydenburgh Park Revitalization Efforts By Cait Crudden
Blydenburgh County Park in Hauppauge is undergoing major improvements, thanks to a series of critical capital projects led by Suffolk County Legislator Leslie Kennedy (R-Nesconset) and supported by Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine (R-Center Moriches). This past week, Kennedy visited the site to observe a Rosemar Construction crew actively repaving the park’s South Entrance Way, a project funded through a 2025 Capital Project grant she filed last spring. The newly paved roadway stretches from the Veterans Memorial Highway entrance to the park’s popular Dog Park, replacing a worn-down road surface that had not seen significant upgrades in decades. Local officials and residents noted that the need for repairs had been building up for many years. “This project has really been 30 years overdue. Blydenburgh has been through a lot in the past year, and this is just one of the many projects we’re working on to make Blydenburgh the park it deserves to be,” said Legislator Kennedy.
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Stumps visible for the first time in nearly 200 years after Hurricane Ernesto wiped away the dam at Stump Pond in Blydenburgh Park (Credit - Hector Gavilla)