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Thursday, September 18, 2025 ~ Volume 137 ~ Issue Number 44 ~ $1.00
Thousands Attend LI Vigil for Charlie Kirk
By Matt Meduri Last week saw perhaps one of the most historic events of the century, the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The conservative activist was just 31 when he was shot and killed in Utah while conducting his trademark “Prove Me Wrong” series in which he invited and promoted open political debate and discourse on college campuses through his organization Turning Point USA. Kirk founded Turning Point at the age of 18 in his garage, steadily growing it into a massive movement that spans nearly 2,000 college and high school campuses nationwide and himself into an avatar not just for young conservatives, but for Christian ideals as well.
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The Long Island Loud Majority (LILM) held candlelight vigil for Kirk Saturday night at the LIRR Station in Seaford with several thousand attendees. (Credit - Matt Meduri)
Smithtown Remembers 9/11
By Matt Meduri Members of the Smithtown community gathered last Thursday, September 11, to commemorate the twenty-fourth anniversary of perhaps the darkest day in American history and to remember the many Smithtonians who lost their lives that day. The annual ceremony was held at Tide Park - also known as 9/11 Park - on Main Street in Smithtown. “Our conversations are poisoned by anger, our politics by division. We demonize those on the other side and we tear them down,” said Rabbi Mendel Teldon of Shabbat Commack. Continued on page 15 A rose is laid on the 9-11 memorial waterfall (Credit - Matt Meduri)
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