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The article reports on the plans of the group Friends of the Cedar Island Lighthouse and the Long Island chapter of the United States Lighthouse Society to turn the Cedar Island Lighthouse in Cedar Point Park in Suffolk County, New York, into a two-room bed-and-breakfast.

The article reports on the foghorn of the Huntington Lighthouse in Lloyd Harbor, New York which has continuously sounded since being reactivated, some neighbors claim every 10 seconds. According to the article, there is a malfunction in the electrical system, perhaps with the fog sensor which is causing the noise. The supervisor for the Coast Guard's aid-to-navigation team for the Long Island Sound, Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Oditt, believed the horn would be disconnected until the problem was fixed.

The article presents a variety of weekend travel ideas for 2007 for people living near New York City. Some of the ideas include visiting the Old Bethpage Village Restoration which is on 165 acres and is a recreation of a nineteenth century village on Long Island, New York. Lancaster County in Pennsylvania has over thirty participating farms that welcome visitors to stay and work. The state of New Jersey has eleven lighthouses open to the public and has developed a "Lighthouse Trail."

The author reports that surfers have organized to oppose the building of a sea wall of boulders to protect the Montauk, New York Point Lighthouse. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is scheduled to begin the $14 million construction plan and has assured surfers that the sea wall will not ruin the waves. However, the surfers say the boulders would destroy Alamo, the world-renowned surf break at that location.

The article reports on the lighthouse called Execution Rocks Light located at Long Island Sound in Long Island, New York which is maintained by the U.S. States Coast Guard team including Roberto Rivera and Alberto Valdez.

Sophie Klein and Jonathan Kelner were married Saturday evening at the Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers in New York. Rabbi Laurie Phillips officiated. The bride, 29, is a playwright and a Ph.D. candidate in classical studies at Boston University, where she received a master's in classical studies. Her plays include ''The Spitting Image,'' which ran from March 23 to April 2 at the Factory Theater in Boston, and ''Per Chance,'' which ran in 2005 at the Shoebox Theater in Burlington, Vt. She graduated from Brown. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Depending on whom you speak to, Kate Murray is either a hard-headed obstructionist willing to drive the Islanders from Long Island, a principled public servant protecting taxpayers or a Republican veteran holding out for a political ransom. Murray has been tagged with these and other less flattering labels because as supervisor of the Town of Hempstead, she and the Town Board have the power to block, delay or approve the zoning for the Lighthouse Project, a $3.8 billion plan to refurbish Nassau Coliseum, the Islanders' shabby home, and build thousands of homes, offices and stores nearby. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A lighthouse without a crabby old man inside is basically a barn without a heifer, a Continental restaurant without an oily maitre d'. The whole point of a lighthouse is to offer isolation to those who need it most -- to give the bitter old coots of the world a place to find some peace. Unfortunately, these are hard times for coots in New York, a town where they flourished only recently. Their favorite haunts -- from the off-track betting parlor to the boilermaker bar -- are slowly being driven out of business. Lighthouses, too: The last manned tower in the city was emptied of its keeper when the cantankerous Frank Schubert, formerly of the Coney Island lighthouse, flicked his final switch, at age 86, in December 2003. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE Of Periodical Lit [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents information on two Rochester, New York-based stone lighthouses which are competing for a Fresnel lens. One of them is the Charlotte-Genesee Lighthouse, which was built in 1822. It guided ships on Lake Ontario into the port of Rochester for decades. But recently, another port is laying claim to the lens used in the lighthouse. The Fresnel lens used in the lighthouse takes the light cast by an ordinary bulb and focuses it into a beam visible for up to 15 miles.

The article offers information regarding the rickety condition of Stepping Stones Lighthouse in Long Island, New York. It states that the lighthouse has neither had a full time attendant nor had been visited by anyone since 1967, due to which, the U.S. government, under the Historic Lighthouse Preservation act has put Stepping Stone up for adoption.

The article presents information related to the conservation of Montauk Lighthouse in Long Island, New York. The lighthouse was 300 feet or so from the cliff edge when it was built in 1796 and today it is just about 75 feet from the edge. So, the Army Corps of Engineers is proposing to prevent it from further erosion by installing a rugged 840-foot rock revetment.

Focuses on Frank Schubert, 85, keeper of the Coney Island Lighthouse, New York City. Observation that he is the last civilian lighthouse keeper in the U.S.; Schubert's fame following a radio interview; Comments of Schubert, who cannot understand all the attention he is getting; Schubert's scheme to defend his insular way of life; How news media members are attempting to corner him; Background on the lighthouse.

Focuses on the move of Gail Fuller, a Coast Guard curator in Maryland, to send a glass lens for the Little Red Lighthouse at Jeffries Hook in Fort Washington Park, New York City.

Provides information on the Saugerties Lighthouse on the Hudson River in New York.

Discusses the willingness of several people to volunteer as caretaker of the Staten Island Lighthouse in Staten Island, New York.

Features Joseph N. Esposito, volunteer caretaker of the Staten Island Lighthouse in New York.

Presents answers to questions about various topics related to New York State. Information on the banker named Preserved Fish, listed on the perimeter wall of the New York Marble Cemetery; Explanation for the names stamped on the bottom of paper bags; Location of a manned lighthouse still in operation.

Answers several queries on village movement, structure and highway signs in New York State. Information on the political movements by Greenwhich Villagers; Facts on the Ambrose Light Tower; Explanation on the safety zone sign.