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We are located in Long Island, the Island of Lindsay Lohan and spoiled brats.
I was talking to the owner of a nursery the other day.  He was complaining how difficult it is to find “decent young people” to work in his establishment.  I often hear the same story from many small retail-business owners here; young people […]

Department of Transportation (DOT) has compiled the reportable* car-crash data on the “State Roads” in Long Island (i.e., about 1/4 of all the accidents). According to the data, Southern Parkway has five of the ten most accident-prone sections.
Here’s the map showing the worst 91 locations in Long Island. Check it out!
* An accident […]

Today we had a very severe thunderstorm in the early morning hours. Almost all the major roads got flooded.
I was delivering flowers to a recipient in Halesite, driving on New York Ave (Rt 110) up to the North. Near King Kullen supermarket, I encountered a big pool of water in front of me, […]

Her husband was just arrested. From local CBS News:
“(CBS/AP) HUNTINGTON, N.Y. The estranged husband of a woman who was found shot to death in a bagel store was arrested Friday on charges of second-degree murder, police said.
… Robert Anderson, 66, was arrested later that afternoon at his sister’s home, said Suffolk County police spokeswoman […]

The owner of “Super Bagel” in Huntington Village, near intersection of Wall St & Gerard St, was shot to death early this morning. Read Newsday Article here.
At this moment, it is not clear whether this is an armed robbery or something else. Our village is usuaully a very safe place to operate a […]

We are experiencing a heavy snow-freezing rain today (Mar 16th, Fri).  According to the forecast, it will become worse; they are saying it will be 3-6″ snow!
This will be the second “killer” snow storm in 2007.  “Killer” because it really kills retail businesses.
As you might recall, we had a nasty snow-ice storm on the Valentine’s Day.  […]

There are many exotic town names in Long Island, especially in Suffolk county, such as Ronkonkoma, Hauppague, etc. Non-Long-Islanders can’t even pronounce them correctly.
If you are a Long Islander, you probably know that these names came from Native Americans’ language. But do you know the meanings?

Amagansett: “place of good water”
Aquebogue: “head of bay”
Commack […]

OK, this has absolutely nothing to do with flowers, but…
Do you watch “The Apprentice” on NBC? You may not like Donald Trump (not many people do), but do you know that four of the Apprentice hopefuls actually have connection to Long Island (one of them was already “fired”)?
Martin “The Philosopher” Clarke, an Atlanta-based […]

Here in Long Island, Canada goose is seen everywhere - park, golf course, parking lot, school yard, and so on. Not everyone likes this large bird (wing span 5-6 feet), because their droppings are proportionally large and they do it whenever and wherever they feel like doing it.
Fortunately to Canada geese, the bird is […]