Community Corner

Huntington Wraps Up Carpenter Farm Purchase

News and notes from around the Town of Huntington.

The town of Huntington has completed the purchased of the former Carpenter Farm in Greenlawn. 

The 12.4-acre site will become a passive parkland, available for educational uses. It is at 55 Old Field Road, across from the Oldfield Middle School. 

“This is a significant addition to the Town’s passive parkland inventory,” Supervisor Frank Petrone said.  “I hope that both individuals and school groups will explore the property’s rolling meadows and observe its native wildlife.”
Local residents have strongly supported the purchase, which was finalized May 10,  and who formed a group called Friends of the Carpenter Farm. The purchase price was $2.68 million, with funding coming from the Town’s Environmental Open Space and Park Fund.  

“The community strongly urged the town to purchase this property because of its historic and environmental value,” said Councilman Mark Cuthbertson, who sponsored the resolutions to make the purchase. “I am pleased that such an important part of Greenlawn’s history will be preserved.”   

The site will be known as Carpenter Farm Park, continuing to honor Dr. Walter Carpenter, who was the first board-certified pediatrician in Suffolk County. 

Carpenter was a World War II hero who served in the Army Medical Corps and  with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).  He is credited with rescuing  Royal Air Force  and American airmen who were shot down by the Germans and kept by the partisans.  

Drug Kits Available to Parents
The Town of Huntington and the Suffolk County Sheriff's Department are working together to offer free at-home drug-test kits.
The “Test, Don’t Guess” program was launched by Sheriff Vincent DeMarco in 2010, using money seized from drug dealers. 

The program is designed to offer the kits that can be used by parents  with to check  the behavior of their children under the age of 18. The kits also contain an alcohol screen test.

“With prom season on the horizon, suspecting parents or guardians will have another method to monitor their child’s behavior and will offer another means of conversation and accountability,”  Cuthbertson said.   


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