Events

The president and CEO of Suffolk Banklcorp, Tom Kohlman was our speaker this morning. Suffolk County National Bank is the entity that is familiar to all of us. Tom gave us an overview of how community banks differ from money market banks. Essentially these community banks have more control over the funds that they work…

Today we had the pleasure of having the commanding officer of the Air Wing 106, National Guard. Col. Michael Canders gave an overview of the unit that works closely with US Coast Guard as well as local police. The unit is available for various search and rescue missions as well as it's primary purpose of…

This morning the meeting room at the Hilton Garden was so festive with lots of delicious breakfast fare. Just the right setting for what was to take place.  The LIMBA Holiday party was held this morning in lieu of the usual speaker program. This morning's program began with the beautiful violin music of James Everett…

At LIMBA we usually take well conceptualized idea (I think that's a word), and present it to our audience to evaluate, and hopefully, adopt. This mornings meeting was a little different. The proposal to connect The end of Rt. 135 to Rye NY by tunnel was presented by prominent builder, Vincent Polimeni. What was interesting…

This morning's speaker was Keyspan Chairman Bob Catell. Mr. Catell's presentation addressed the growing demand for natural gas. The demand for natural gas has been growing at a rate that makes the supply of the commodity difficult. There are two pipelines under consideration. Islander East is one of them. Islander East will bring natural gas…

Today's speaker was Dr Jonathan Gibralter, President of Farmingdale State University. Farmingdale was an agricultural school, as times and needs changed, so did the curriculum.The school has adopted many new…