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STONY BROOK, NY – August 21, 2023; This October, scarecrows will once again line the walkways throughout Stony Brook Village in the Ward Melville Heritage Organization’s 33rd Annual Scarecrow Competition! Register as an individual, group or professional and create a scarecrow masterpiece. First place winners will receive a cash prize. Registration and entry fee of $30 due by Wednesday, September 20th.

Vote for your favorite scarecrows between September 30th and October 25th. Ballots can be found in all shops and eateries in Stony Brook Village. They must be returned to shops no later than October 25th to be counted. Winners will be notified on Tuesday, October 27th by 5pm. All winners will be announced during the Ward Melville Heritage Organization’s Halloween Festival on October 31st.

The sponsors of the 31st Annual Scarecrow Competition are as follows: Green Towers Group, Long Island Speech, Goldfish Swim School and Dr. Robert Quilty, Ph.D.

Registration for this event is required. You can pick up a registration form at any of the shops in Stony Brook Village, or you can download it digitally from the events section of the Stony Brook Village Center website. To enter this competition, please return the completed registration form to the Ward Melville Heritage Organization – P.O. Box 572, Stony Brook, NY 11790, with the entry fee of $30.

For more information on the Scarecrow Competition, the Ward Melville Heritage Organization (WMHO) or the Halloween Festival, please call the WMHO at 631-751-2244.

As of October 19th, 2023 – D.K. Brothers has officially opened to the public! Visit them Monday – Saturday from 10am – 7pm or Sundays 10am – 6pm.

STONY BROOK, NY- August 1, 2023: Stony Brook Village and Madison’s Niche are excited to announce an addition to the lifestyle center – D.K. Brothers by Madison’s Niche. Expected to open this Fall, the boutique will offer a curated collection of men’s apparel, lifestyle gifts, and luxury pet accessories.

Customers can expect to shop denim, t-shirts, dress shirts, casual wear, small leather goods, travel accessories, home accents, fragrances, books, and many more gift categories. D.K. Brothers will also feature an elevated pet collection to shop for special outfits, accessories, toys, bowls, beds, treats, and more.

Karen McAvoy founded Madison’s Niche in 2012 with her daughter, Madison, as the brand’s inspiration and namesake. Like Madison’s Niche, D.K. Brothers is a concept inspired by and named for Karen’s sons, Daniel and Kenneth. Today, over a decade later, Madison’s Niche remains a celebrated retail staple that has since expanded to eight brick-and-mortar locations (Stony Brook Village, Huntington, Garden City, Sayville, Plainview, Rye Brook, and Woodbury) along with an e-commerce platform.

To stay updated, visit madisonsniche.com, stonybrookvillage.com, and on social media @madisonsnicheboutique and @stonybrookvillage.

STONY BROOK, NY- August 1, 2023: Stony Brook Village is proud to announce the newest addition to its open-air center, Village Hair Studio. Currently offering washes, blow-outs, cuts, styling and coloring (highlights and balayages), massages, facials and make-up services. In addition they offer hair setting, bridal services, wax services (hair removal), hair smoothing treatments and perms. They also sell accessories like hats from Madrid, Abanicos (Spanish fans) and fascinator hats! The Village Hair Studio will be open Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 10am-6pm, Thursdays, 10am-8pm and Saturdays, 10am to 5pm.

Proprietor Cynthia Alfonso Hernandez was just a little girl in Cuba, she dreamed of owning her own hair studio. At age 16, she and her grandfather made that dream a reality when they constructed her very own backyard salon. She offered services such as cuts, coloring, nails and more. As an adult she moved to Russia, and then Spain. Finally in 2017, she found her new home in the United States, where just five short years later, in 2023, her dream of owning a hair studio came to fruition. To make your appointment, call (631) 675- 0987
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STONY BROOK, NY: June 8, 2023 – The Ward Melville Heritage Organization (WMHO) is excited to announce the long awaited return of the Summer Concert Series on the Village Green. These free concerts will take place in front the Stony Brook Post Office at 7pm on Sundays from July 9 to August 20.

Performances include: Just Sixties, the longest running sixties tribute band in the United States, on July 9; Country Rhythms, a country music line dance instruction group, on July 16; Gene Casey and the Lone Sharks, the premier barroom troubadour and house band, on July 23; The Rustlers, a high energy group performing southern rock songs on July 30; The Bob and Tony Band, Covering your favorite hits of the 50s, 60s, 70s & beyond on August 6.;  The Equity Brass Band, a six piece ensemble performing in the tradition of the New Orleans Brass Bands on August 13; and the  Long Island Sound Symphony, an orchestra comprising of about 50 pieces, will perform a combination of light classical songs, movie themes and Broadway tunes on August 20. In the case of rain, the concerts will be cancelled.

The 2023 Summer Concerts Series on the Village Green is made possible by our sponsors: the Tantillo Auto Group, Camco Services of NY, Inc., Realty Three LLC., and Michael Ardolino – Realty Connect USA.

STONY BROOK, NY: June 8, 2023 – The Ward Melville Heritage Organization (WMHO) is excited to announce the return of Pop-Up Saturdays in Stony Brook Village! This seven-part series family-friendly event will take place Saturdays July 8 – August 19 from 1:30pm – 3:30pm and is filled with animals, music, art and even magic! Rain dates to be releases closer to each date. Pop-Up Saturdays are free to the public and will take place in Stony Brook Village’s Inner Court (by Crazy Beans and/or the Waterfall Garden). 

2023 Pop-Up Saturdays Lineup: On July 8, Uncle Tony’s Reptile Shack: an interactive, fun and educational presentation where the public will meet snakes, lizards, tortoises, and more! On July 15, live R&B, Roots, Blues and Contemporary Acoustic music from Brenda & Burke, as well as Caricatures by Marty! On July 22, Magic of Amore and Last Chance Animal Rescue. July 29 attraction to be announced. On August 5, Radical Reptile Entertainment: a fun and educational interaction with reptiles. On August 12, the Silly Magician and Caricatures by Marty. On August 19, Brenda & Burke will close the series.

The 2023 Pop-Up Saturday sponsors are Armor Pest Control, New York Life Insurance Company and Dr. Rocco Morelli, DDS

Black Friday returns to Stony Brook Village Center on Friday, November 25. Shop Black Friday deals all day long throughout the village, with carolers, live music, and a petting zoo from 2pm to 4pm, as well as the opening of the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame.

Rocking Horse Farms will be set up in front of the Rustic Loft with a variety of animals for children to pet.  Burke and Brenda will be performing original and cover songs in the genres of R&B, Roots, Blues and Contemporary Acoustic at the Stony Brook Post Office. The Celestial Holiday Carolers will be performing holiday music throughout Market Square (shops between Luca Modern Italian Restaurant and Harbor Cleaners). Black Friday deals will be available all throughout the open-air center. A full list of Black Friday deals and sales will be available online at stonybrookvillage.com mid-November.

The Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame will be open to the public. The upstairs exhibit space will feature a permanent “Hall of Fame” with plaques and exhibits recognizing the over 100 and growing inductees. The main exhibit space will be the first rotating exhibit “Long Island’s Legendary Club Scene: 1960’s – 1980’s”.

Black Friday in Stony Brook Village is sponsored by News 12 Long Island.

Foodies and shopaholics unite for a three-part series of luncheon fashion shows in Stony Brook Village. Each part of the series will take place from 12:30pm to 2pm at a different restaurant (the Country House Restaurant, Luca Modern Italian Restaurant and Mirabelle Restaurant at Three Village Inn) and each will feature different fall styles from Mint, Chico’s and Loft. $35 per person at each restaurant for a prix fix lunch.

As guests enjoy their lunch, models will stroll through the restaurants, sharing information about the fall fashion they are wearing. The three-part series will take place at separate dining locations – On November 3, at the Country House Restaurant, on November 10 at Luca Modern Italian Restaurant, and November 17 at Mirabelle Restaurant and Tavern at the Three Village Inn.

To make your reservation, contact the restaurant directly. The Country House Restaurant’s phone number is (631) 751-3332 and is located at 1175 North Country Road in Stony Brook. Luca Modern Italian Restaurant’s phone number is (631) 675-0435 and is located at 93 Main Street in Stony Brook Village. Mirabelle Restaurant can be contacted at (631) 751-0555 and is located in the historic Three Village Inn, at 150 Main Street in Stony Brook Village.

The Ward Melville Heritage Organization (WMHO)’s Annual Halloween Festival returns on Monday, October 31 from 2pm to 5pm for its 32^nd year with music from WALK 97.5, trick-or-treating throughout Stony Brook Village Center, dancing and games for children, Scarecrow Competition announcements at 4pm and a Halloween parade, led by Monster Merlin! This event is FREE.

STONY BROOK, NY – September 2, 2022; Join the Ward Melville Heritage Organization (WMHO) in a new walking tour experience, Unwind & Uncork History: The Story of Wine & the Stony Brook Grist Mill on Friday, September 30 at 3pm. $25 per person, includes bottle of authentic Catawba wine from Lake Side Emotions Wine Boutique and program. All participants must be 21 or older. Registration required.

In this walking tour experience, tour-goers will “uncork” the stories of the Stony Brook Grist Mill (c. 1751), the sight of Long Island’s very first vineyard. This will include a tour of the Stony Brook Grist Mill, the scandalous story of Edward Kane, his Lakeside Wine Company, and a brief lesson on wine. The tour will begin at Tranquility Park (also known as T. Bayles Minuse Mill Pond Park) across from the Stony Brook Grist Mill, and will end at Lake Side Emotions Wine Boutique, which gained its name from Kane’s Lakeside Wine Company.

To learn more about the Unwind & Uncork History program, to register and to learn more about the WMHO, call (631)751-2244.

STONY BROOK, NY – August 31, 2022; Join the Ward Melville Heritage Organization (WMHO) in rediscovering the lives of Long Island’s 19th century free Black, Native-Black, and Black-White people on Saturday, September 24 at their in-person program, William Sidney Mount and Long Island’s Free People of Color at the Brewster House. Two sessions, 1:00pm – 2:30 and 2:30pm – 4:00pm. $8 per person. Books are available for purchase. Limited seats available, registration required.

The Three Villages may be the only community in America with a world-famous hometown artist who painted people of color during the mid-1800s. The Brewster House (c. 1665) was the focus of Mount’s Long Island Farmhouses now hanging in the Metropolitan Museum of art, and it is believed that many of the people featured in Mount’s work lived on the property and worked for the Brewster family.

Presenting ground-breaking research, authors Katherine Kirkpatrick and Vivian Nicholson-Mueller will reveal the names and life stories of the agricultural laborers, domestic workers and musicians who posed for Mount from their book The Art of William Sidney Mount: Long Island People of Color on Canvas. This event will also highlight co-author Vivian Nicholson-Muller who is a descendant of Andrew Brewster, the model who posed for The Bone Player. After a presentation, participants are encouraged to ask questions and are invited to tour the historic Brewster House (c. 1665), owned by the WMHO.

Register by calling the Ward Melville Heritage Organization at 631-751-2244.