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In today's newsletter:

  • How EPIC's East Meadow center is changing disability services nearby
  • How many ICE detainees are now held at East Meadow's jail?

Also on today's calendar: End of Summer Festival and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What did the bartender say to the jumper cables when they walked in? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: Humid with a shower in spots, with a high of 75 and low of 69 degrees.
  • Thursday: Humid with a thunderstorm, temps: high: 84, low: 72.
  • Friday: Sunshine and very warm, with a high of 86 and low of 65 degrees. 🌶 Hot!

📰 News we're reading

• EPIC Long Island expands to Bethpage, grows its Walls initiative (longislandpress.com) — EPIC Long Island is expanding its disability services beyond its main rehabilitation center on Hempstead Turnpike in East Meadow, where its popular Program Without Walls has outgrown the space. A new Bethpage facility will let more adults with developmental disabilities gain job skills, volunteer locally, and participate in hands-on programs like gardening and food preparation while the East Meadow site continues core rehab services.
   

• Homeland Security officials announce 2,100+ immigrant detentions in NY (abc7ny.com subscription) — Homeland Security officials say more than 2,100 migrants were detained in New York during "Operation Rotten Apple," with Nassau County's sheriff holding thousands of ICE detainees at its East Meadow jail. The operation, criticized or praised depending on politics, bypassed New York's limits on local cooperation, making East Meadow a key site in a high-profile immigration enforcement push.
   

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  • Uniondale School District My Brother's Keeper Empowers Community With Fourth Annual Back-to-School Drive —Jake Mendlinger Read on Patch
  • I need to replace my kitchen floor into the small hallway connecting it to the bathroom, living room and bedroom.
    Has to look good, be easy to maintain and be cost effective. This is in preparation of selling the house. (Nextdoor East meadow)
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🗞 Nearby News

Uniondale

  • Uniondale School District My Brother's Keeper Empowers Community With Fourth Annual Back-to-School Drive (patch.com)
  • Jacqulyn S. Loftin To Be Honored at Long Island Business News' Top 50 Women in Business Awards - Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, P.C. (rmfpc.com)

Levittown

  • Riko's Pizza Acquires Two Long Island Locations in Merrick and Levittown (geneonline.com)

Hempstead

  • George Santos Banned From Kalshi After State Of The Union Trades (patch.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Don't you 2 start anything (Thank you Mary L. for sending it in!)
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