By greaterlongisland.com | Nick Esposito | 9/13/2025 10:45 AM
The lights, music, and aromas of authentic Greek cooking filled the air Friday evening as the St. Paraskevi … Continued
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By greaterlongisland.com | Andrew Rappaport | 9/13/2025 10:03 AM
The week started like every other week for Sayville’s sophomore lineman John Andruszkiewicz. Since training camp began, the … Continued
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By greaterlongisland.com | Peter Schwartz | 9/12/2025 3:44 PM
He either makes the team or returns to the Ontario Hockey League until next year When the Islanders … Continued
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By greaterlongisland.com | Staff | 9/12/2025 3:16 PM
If you go When: Saturday, Sept. 27, 9:30 a.m.Where: Lakeview Cemetery, West Main Street and Waverly Avenue, Patchogue … Continued
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By greaterlongisland.com | Brian Harmon | 9/12/2025 2:45 PM
A 35-year-old Queens man riding an e-bike was killed in a collision with a pickup truck early Friday … Continued
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WHAT: Nassau County Legislator Seth I. Koslow (D – Merrick) is once again partnering with Northwell Health’s Long Island Jewish Valley Stream Hospital to provide free flu shots for seniors at the Merrick Library on Friday, Oct. 3... ... Read full Story
By greaterlongisland.com | Andrew Rappaport | 9/12/2025 12:50 PM
Long Island is serving up its first-ever pizza fest in the park this Saturday at Mill Dam Park … Continued
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As part of the weeklong festivities, PGA of America Youth Day will tee off on Thursday, Sept. 25. That’s the same … Continued
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By greaterlongisland.com | Brian Harmon | 9/12/2025 8:46 AM
A shocking scene unfolded Thursday morning in Setauket when an 84-year-old woman was deliberately run over while trying … Continued
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By greaterlongisland.com | Brian Harmon | 9/12/2025 8:04 AM
Suffolk County Police have arrested a Holtsville man in connection with the hit-and-run crash that killed a 54-year-old … Continued
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By greaterlongisland.com | Staff | 9/11/2025 4:37 PM
Miller Place High School graduate Charlie Rock has been dismissed from the Carolina Panthers’ communications staff after an Instagram post about Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
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By greaterlongisland.com | Mike White | 9/11/2025 2:59 PM
Islip’s Main Street is about to turn green. The very first Islip Irish Day Parade will step off … Continued
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By greaterlongisland.com | Brian Harmon | 9/11/2025 1:59 PM
Suffolk County’s newest Old Navy has opened in the Rocky Point Plaza, occupying the corner storefront previously filled … Continued
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“I have no idea who we are, but I know what we can be.” That was Sayville High … Continued
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By greaterlongisland.com | Andrew Rappaport | 9/11/2025 12:29 PM
From a pandemic pastime to Rory McIlroy and the Ryder Cup They are tiny objects making a huge … Continued
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The mood was emotional. The speeches, passionate. “We will never forget!” shouted Embassy Diner owner Gus Tsiorvas to … Continued
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By greaterlongisland.com | Brian Harmon | 9/10/2025 11:54 PM
A police search for an assault suspect in Hampton Bays on Wednesday caused the temporary lockdown of Hampton … Continued
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By greaterlongisland.com | Brian Harmon | 9/10/2025 5:23 PM
Hollywood’s notorious bad boy Charlie Sheen is making a “winning” stop in Patchogue next month. The unpredictable actor … Continued
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By greaterlongisland.com | Brian Harmon | 9/10/2025 3:51 PM
Just a week ago, Caitlyn Weldon was a healthy 27-year-old mom chasing after her 5-year-old son. Today, she’s … Continued
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“Conspiracy theorists (and those of us who argue with them have the scars to show for it) often maintain that the ones debunking the conspiracies are allied with the conspirators.” — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Did you know?
To debunk something is to take the bunk out of it—that bunk being nonsense. (Bunk is short for the synonymous bunkum, which has political origins.) Debunk has been in use since at least the 1920s, and it contrasts with synonyms like disprove and rebut by suggesting that something is not merely untrue but is also a sham—a trick meant to deceive. One can simply disprove a myth, but if it is debunked, the implication is that the myth was a grossly exaggerated or foolish claim.