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Wesley Dean Ackley honored with Riverhead skate park renaming

A Town of Riverhead skate park was renamed Sunday in honor of Wesley Dean Ackley, a passionate skateboarder who worked to keep the park free and died of cancer at 27 in January. NewsdayTV's Drew Scott reports. Credit: Newsday/James Carbone; Photo Credit: Ken Sawchuk

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YOUR HEALTH

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West Nile virus on Long Island

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Family members who lost loved ones to fentanyl plead for change

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Where LI home prices rose and fell in the first half of 2023

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Long Island home prices remain high

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Historic homes all around us on LI

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Going Green: New energy efficient homes on LI

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WOMEN'S HISTORY

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BLACK HISTORY

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Black History Month exhibit, "Revisiting 5+1" featured at Stony Brook University

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Long Island educators seek to expand lessons on Black culture

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First Black woman to serve as U.S. Army nurse takes a look back at her career at 102

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New book revisits Freeport 'lynching' in 1946

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Joseph McNeil talks to Huntington students about sit-in at whites-only lunch counter in North Carolina nearly 60 years ago

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