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Patchogue Awarded a State Solar Grant

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Recently the Village of Patchogue was awarded a major state solar grant. It’s pretty cool when a municipal official receives a phone call from the New York State Governor with good news. That’s what happened when Patchogue Mayor Paul Pontieri answered the phone recently with Gov. Kathy Hochul on the other end. The village, who owns the LIRR train station parking lot, was approved for a $3 million grant to fund solar panels there. “She understood we were doing a major solar project and looking for help from the state,” he said. “One of the governor’s goals (through New York’s […]

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The Fed Indicated Rates Will Remain Higher For Longer. What Does That Mean For You?

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Mortgage rates, credit card rates, auto loan rates, and business loans with variable rates will all likely maintain their highs, with consequences for consumer spending, after the Federal Reserve indicated Wednesday that it doesn’t plan to cut interest rates until it has “greater confidence” that price increases at the consumer level are slowing to its 2% target.

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