Huntington’s Kathy Wagner is half runner, half United Way of Long Island supporter and cheerleader. And, on Nov. 6 during the 2016 TCS New York City Marathon, she’ll combine those traits in the name of Team Mission United, a group of nine runners set to participate in the 26.2-mile race for the 135,000 veterans and military families on Long Island.

Robert Eng, a recent Walt Whitman High School grad, and a volunteer at Huntington Manor’s Explorer Post 1650 for four years, has earned a $1,500 scholarship awarded by the state.

As her contractions grew stronger and longer Monday afternoon, Tina Marie Ortiz and husband Juan attempted to make a run for the hospital, but their child had other intentions. The couple hopped in their Chevy Tahoe, and started to pull out of the driveway of their Crawford Drive home in Dix Hills, but that was as far as they would get.