People’s Arc of Suffolk honored longtime nurse Michele Latona as the organization’s first-ever recipient of The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses during a ceremony Tuesday in Hauppauge. Latona has served People’s Arc of Suffolk for 21 years, providing compassionate nursing care to hundreds of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities while training and supporting countless nurses and staff members.

People’s Arc of Suffolk donated $1,000 to St. Ann’s Episcopal Church in Sayville on Wednesday, August 5 to support the restoration of its historic belltower, originally constructed along with the church in 1887. “It’s something that we’re known by. We’re the little stone church with the belltower,” said Rev. Susan