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Tim McGraw returns to Jones Beach tour marks his return to the road with new music, including the autobiographical title For Tim McGraw, returning track, “Pawn Shop Guitar,” and to the stage this summer isn’t “Song for America,” released in just another tour. After a year May. But for fans packing the spent recovering from surger- waterfront amphitheater in ies and rehabilitation, the Wantagh, McGraw promises more than a greatcountry music superstar says est-hits concert. every show now “The hardest carries a deeper thing about putappreciation for ting any tour the career that together is after 35 has defined more years of doing than three this, you have so decades of his many songs that life. there’s no way McGraw will you’re going to get bring that everybody’s favorrenewed perspecite song in,” he tive to Long said with a laugh. Island on July 24, “What we try to when he brings do is put together his 2026 Pawn a show that takes Shop Guitar tour Courtesy Full Coverage you on a movie, to Northwell at Communications sort of, and creJones Beach The- Country music superstar ates its own expeater, one of his Tim McGraw will perform rience.” favorite venues in later this month. Jones Beach the country. holds a unique “It’s the first place in McGraw’s time we’ve done a tour in a career and personal life. Long w h i l e , b e c a u s e I ’ v e g o n e before he headlined the venue, through some surgery and he attended a concert there, some rehab,” McGraw, 59, told shortly after marrying fellow the Herald. “I’m ready to go country star Faith Hill. now.” “She begged me to go to The 33-date North American CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
By HUNTER FENOLLOL
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Seaford High School seniors who were named 2026 Patriot Award recipients with Seaford 9/11 Memorial Committee chairman Tom Condon following the annual Patriot Award Dinner. From left were Valerie Martin, Matthew Kind, Paiten Haskell, Brian Falk, Michelle Evangelista, Emily Brown and Condon.
Seaford Patriot Awards celebrate 25 years of honoring 9/11 heroes By HUNTER FENOLLOL hfenollol@liherald.com
What began with a promise to a grieving brother in the weeks after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, has become one of Seaford’s most enduring traditions. Nearly 300 people gathered at Crest Hollow Country Club on June 22 for the Seaford High School 9/11 Memorial Committee’s 25th annual Patriot Award Dinner, recognizing both the 25th anniversary of the attacks and a quartercentury of recognizing the values of service, character and commitment in the community. Despite torrential rain, families, alumni, students and community leaders came together to honor the memories of Thomas “Tommy” Haskell, Timothy “Timmy” Haskell, John Perry, Robert “Rob” Sliwak and Michael Wittenstein — the five Seaford High School graduates who lost their lives on Sept. 11.
For Committee President Tom Condon, the anniversary brought him back to where it all began. “When I looked around the room, I said, ‘Oh my gosh, 25 years,’” Condon said. “This Patriot Award is stronger and stronger each year. The message really works — service, character and commitment.” The program traces its roots to October 2001, just weeks after the attacks, when firefighter Ken Haskell, Timmy and Tommy’s brother, approached Condon, the longtime football and track coach at Seaford High School. He was a guidance counselor at the time but ultimately served as Seaford’s Athletic Director. “He said, ‘Coach, I want you to do something for my brothers,’” Condon recalled. “I said, ‘Yeah, I’ll do something.’ Little did I know CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
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