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Long Beach Island schools ban treats with birthday celebrations (Press of Atlantic City) - SURF CITY - Citing concerns over spreading the H1N1 virus, encouraging childhood obesity, protecting students with allergies and economic hardship among parents, the Long Beach Island Consolidated School district is prohibiting in-classroom birthday celebrations with food.

Hopscotch Air Launches Direct Flights to Canada from Long Island (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - NEW YORK----Hopscotch Air, the personal, affordable, air limo service, is launching the only direct, competitively priced flights from Long Island to destinations throughout Canada’s eastern provinces.

Relatives Say Photos Depict Ellis Island’s First Immigrant (New York Times) - Relatives have found two images of the woman they believe was the first newcomer to the United States to set foot on Ellis Island when it opened on Jan. 1, 1892.

Long Island Couple on Terror Flight (FOX 5 New York) - Calvin and Shelly Kakar were passengers on Northwest Flight 253 on Christmas day. They sat just a few feet away from Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, the Nigerian man who is accused of trying to ignite an explosive on the plane.

Rhode Island football field fight highlights church-state issues (USA Today) - A fight over athletic fields in this city goes beyond who gets to play soccer where and raises thorny questions about separation of church and state and public aid to religious institutions divisive issues that have flared repeatedly in heavily Catholic Rhode Island.

Paterson's Security Detail Uses More State Police than Long Island (Gothamist) - Governor Paterson's security force has doubled from 100 to 200 officers since he took office in March 2008, and some critics say he's expanded the detail just to make himself look more important. "The governor wants to have an entourage—three or four cars—wherever he goes because he thinks it makes him look more gubernatorial, it helps him politically," one unidentified "senior official" tells ...

Treasure Island utopia gets reality check (San Francisco Chronicle) - Treasure Island didn't even exist 75 years ago. And if sea levels rise, significant steps will need to be taken to keep the former naval base from vanishing into San Francisco Bay. But now the 400-acre man-made island is closer than ever to becoming San...

From Coney Island to a 5-star luxury condo, 2009 was a year of projects & promise in Brooklyn (New York Daily News) - The sagging economy cast a long shadow across many parts of the borough this year - turning a luxury condo building in Crown Heights into a homeless shelter and bursting the bubble of Brooklyn's very own Bernie Madoff.

For Shinnecocks, Forecasts of Doom Finally Give Way to One of Prosperity (New York Times) - After years of struggling simply to survive, the Long Island tribe is looking forward to the jobs and revenues that a casino would bring.

Incoming NJ Gov may kill gas island (Queens Courier) - Plans to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on a 60-acre man-made island off the Rockaway shore have run aground, with published reports saying that New Jersey Governor-elect Chris Christie will veto the project.