With so many festive holiday-themed events happening within a short ride of Huntington, it can be tough to decide which to attend. As each holiday season arrives and departs seemingly more quickly each and every year; it's important to carve out some time to appreciate the sights, scenery and sounds of this festive time of year with the ones you love...and music always seems to stir the soul.

The Arena Players Children’s Theater will open its holiday show, Beauty and the Beast’s Magical Christmas, on Saturday, December 5, at the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum’s Carriage House Theater. The museum is located at 180 Little Neck Road, Centerport, N.Y.

The holidays are a time to celebrate the relationships of friends, families, and those for whom we care. The typical scenario usually surrounds the event of eating, drinking and being merry! We usually attend a cornucopia of parties, get-togethers, and holiday celebrations that pass hors d’oeuvres, glasses of wines, and other various “finger foods” right under our proverbial noses. The temptation to eat overcomes us lest we become the pariah of the party! Therefore, it is commonplace etiquette and proper to enjoy the offerings of our host and be thankful for having received the invite.

Living Huntington recently sat down with Lenny Tortora III to talk about his family’s long history in Huntington Village. This coming May, L&L Camera will be celebrating their 60th anniversary in the same location. His Dad, Len II, opened L&L in May, 1956, upon returning from the Korean War.

It was seventy four years ago when Japanese aircraft attacked the USS Arizona at the U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor, plunging our nation into World War II.

Northport residents and merchants gathered on Dec. 7th for the Pearl Harbor Memorial service by members of the Northport American Legion Post 694 to mark the anniversary of (and to honor the Americans who took place in) the attack against the US Naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by the Japanese Imperial Navy during WWII.