Long Island Ducks News

Long Island Ducks News


Dec 13, 2024

Ex-Met Joins The Ducks 25th Team

Former New York Mets starting pitcher Bill Pulsipher has been chosen as the sixth member of the Long Island Ducks 25th Anniversary Team.

Dec 6, 2024

Ducks Return Their Coaching Staff

As the Long Island Ducks enter their 25th Anniversary season they have announced their coaching staff for the 2025 season.

Dec 3, 2024

Long Island Native Leek Named To Ducks Anniversary Team

A Long Island native has just been named to the Long Island Ducks 25th Anniversary Team.

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Investors Throw Millions at Suffolk

The sale of $350 million in Tax Anticipation Notes at 2.94% and $46.4 million in Refunding Serial Bonds at 2.66% was reported by Comptroller John Kennedy. He attributes the impressive number of bidders to the county’s improved credit ratings which resulted in healthy competition, and significant cost savings for the residents of Suffolk County.


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History Comes Alive at Military Museum

The museum is the dream of the nearby Rocky Point VFW Post 6249 membership, whose stories are befitting of the many heroes depicted in the gallery’s hallowed halls. There’s museum advisor Joe Cognitore, the post’s commander, whose Army service in Vietnam earned him a Bronze Star with a “V” for Valor.


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Fort Sumter Pilgrimage Explores Family’s Civil War Legacy

Following the War of 1812 with Britain, President Andrew Jackson realized the need to strengthen the new nation’s coastal defenses, especially to protect the Atlantic entrance to Charleston, the south’s busiest port. Millions of tons of Massachusetts granite created an island at the confluence of the Ashley and the Cooper rivers where none had been before