Resources

Repair Café Heading to Glen Head & Middle Island

June 5, 2026 / Maxwell Laible and Ronald Laible

The Repair Café is Coming to Middle Island & Glen Head In a time where buying something new often comes before fixing what we have, The Repair Cafe is a great place to get advice, offer your expertise, and be inspired! There are no guarantees, but a promise to try.

Native Garden and Ecolandscaping Resources

May 27, 2026 / Katheryn Laible

Recently Updated! A few years ago now, I started reaching out to friends and collecting resources that we are pleased to share with you!

Shop Local! Northport 2026

May 27, 2026 / Katheryn Laible

A Shopping Guide starring the merchants of Northport, NY!

A Few Good Places to Give

December 30, 2025 / Katheryn Laible

Long Island needs more people to give to local organizations addressing our local challenges. Here are just a few to consider:

"Thank you for shopping local" photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash

YOUR Picks: Favorite Local Shops

December 8, 2025 / Katheryn Laible

It's that time of year again! Please shop local and keep the magic that is our beautiful downtowns alive! Also, please help me update this list of favorite local shops! There are so many wonderful places run by great people out there. They only exist because people like you spend money there. The list barely scratches the surface, please help add to it!

Delicious, Healing, Somatic Yoga: Embody with Megan MacCarthy

September 25, 2025 / Katheryn Laible

This sweet, smart, online yogi has done more to help me overcome a variety of chronic pains and to improve general well being than all sorts of other endeavors. Not to knock any of them at all, this has just been exceptionally effective.

LIAA Board Member Marc Wong, David Okorn and Melissa Greenberger of LICF, and Lauren Wagner of LIAA show off key stats from a recent comprehensive study of the economic impace of Arts and Cultural organizations on LI

Arts Matter: LIAA Releases Numbers Detailing $330M Impact on LI

December 12, 2023 / Katheryn Laible

Share this with anyone involved in securing investment in the arts. We know the value is clearly deeper than economics. Still, that impact is profound and now we have numbers to clearly illustrate it!

Counting Blessings…

February 2, 2021 / Katheryn Laible

Over the last few years we've been blessed to share some truly wonderful people who continue to inspire us every day. In case you missed them the first time, just want to read them again, or are looking for more worthy organizations to give to:

Who Saved Whom? We’re Never Quite Certain, But We Sure Are Grateful for These Animal Rescue Folks!!!

November 24, 2019 / Katheryn Laible

A friend with lots of experience here helped assemble this list of local Animal Rescue organizations. Let us know of more!