The Huntington Historical Society celebrated its 112th annual meeting at the Huntington Elks Club last month. The celebration included a buffet dinner, and presentations were made on the society’s 2015 activities, milestones and future goals.

Sebastian Prestia is the top-ranked chess player in his age group in the entire country, according to the United States Chess Federation.

Although her mom has been a volunteer for Bellport-based Literacy Suffolk for 10 years, Maria Samaritano, 17, became part of the nonprofit organization when she was in eighth grade, participating in Legs for Literacy, which is held during the annual Huntington Thanksgiving Day Charity Run.

With the summer season rolling in the YMCA of Long Island has partnered with Stew Leonard III Children’s Charities to promote the importance of safe swimming with the seventh annual World’s Largest Swimming Lesson.

Where the hair is short and the dresses sparkle and flap, “Thoroughly Modern Millie” takes audiences back to the roaring 20s, to witness a lively and energetic performance at the John W. Engeman Theater in Northport Village.

Imagine being asked to change your eye color. Imagine being incessantly pushed and prodded into doing so, even though you know you just can’t. That was the metaphor that Kevin Gersh, founder and president of the Gersh Academy, used to describe the pressures that students on the autism spectrum face on a daily basis.

Movies on the Lawn is back for its 13th season, this time featuring a lineup of hit films, scheduled rain dates, a special partnership with the Town of Huntington Animal Shelter and more.

The sixth annual Hunting-Tony Awards were hosted at John W. Engeman Theater on Monday, packing the house with students, parents and faculty members involved in their high schools’ extra-curricular theatrical productions this school year.

Dressed in red, white and blue, students, faculty and PTA members of the Oldfield Middle School hosted a special pep rally last month to give a motorized wheelchair to a wounded veteran.

A Melville teen has worked to install three new benches at a Farmingville church as part of his Eagle Scout project. 

Peter Max, the pop artist whose colorful graphic paintings were iconic of the cosmic ’60s, is showing some love to the Huntington Lighthouse. 

Prepping for his aerobatic flight last week, Cold Spring Harbor High School student Alex Moynihan sat calmly and confidently as world-renowned pilot Sean Tucker explained that he would soon experience G-forces, subjecting his body to forces several times his own weight.

Marisa Vitali’s story isn’t just about the struggles of drug addiction. It’s about triumph, and perseverance to overcome her greatest challenge in life, drug addiction.

The Townwide Fund of Huntington’s annual spring charity golf outing raised more than $80,000 last week. The 2016 outing, which was held at Indian Hills Country Club, honored Jim Tsunis, managing member of the Northwind Group. 

The John W. Engeman Theater at Northport will tap the best of Broadway for a fundraising event to benefit the Huntington Lighthouse Preservation Society. The event, set for June 1, will present Neil Berg’s “100 Years of Broadway,” with a goal of raising $80,000 toward the more the half-million dollars needed for a lighthouse reconstruction project getting underway next month.

Safe Boating Week is nearly here, and, this year in Huntington, it’s expected to be bigger than ever.

More than a dozen students from across the Town of Huntington have been selected for The Heckscher Museum of Art’s Long Island’s Best: Young Artist at The Heckscher Museum, an annual exhibit showcasing artwork from high school students across Nassau and Suffolk.

Centerport’s Pete Macandrew, captain of the oyster sloop Christeen was sitting at the table in the wooden shipyard building on Oyster Bay’s West End Avenue, a yellow legal pad in front of him. He’s making a list of maintenance needs for Shipwright Josh Herman. 

Coming full circle, former congressman from Huntington Robert Mrazek has dived into the world of filmmaking, directing the aptly named film, “The Congressman,” which debuted April 29.