The Half Hollow Hills Community Library serves the residents of Dix Hills and Melville with two locations. The Dix Hills Building, which serves as the main branch, is located across the street from one of the district's two high schools, Hills East. The Melville building is located across the street from one of the districts seven elementary schools, Sunquam Elementary. This public library serves 43,616 residents and circulates 512,735 items per year.
Located in Huntington, the St. Hugh of Lincoln Roman Catholic Church offers parishioners a variety of religious services accompanied by a warm, welcoming congregation. Led by Reverend Joseph Granata, the Church provides members with Sunday and weekday worship services, liturgy and music programs, youth ministries and education, study groups and more.
This beautiful church is on the corner of Deer Park Road, just off exit 51 of the Long Island Expressway. This is a "Bible-teaching church that preaches Jesus, the crucified and risen savior," according to Pastor Jerome Enderly. He added that the church has a multicultural following and even has members from around the world. Grace of God is the only Evangelical Lutheran church on Long Island and they chose Dix Hills because of its central location; they serve worshippers from New York City and all of Long Island.
Pastor Charles W. Froehlich has been the pastor for more than 30 years. St. Luke's has been in Dix Hills since 1962. It was the first Lutheran Church in Dix Hills and one of the first churches built in the area.
Meetings for parents with troubled teenagers and the local Boy Scouts troop are held here. The church also has services around the holidays like Easter and Thanksgiving to bring food to the underserved as well as on Super Bowl Sunday.
Huntington Manor Fire District is a local Fire District which serves the residents of Huntington Station, New York.
The Fire District protects 14 square miles on the North Shore of Long Island, New York. The Fire District is governed by a Board Of Fire Commissioners. The Board of Fire Commissioners consists of Five (5) Commissioners, each member is publicly elected to a five year term.
Each year on the second Tuesday in December a public election is held at Fire District Headquarters.
Senior Fire House Attendant
Vincent Bifano
Phone (631) 427-1669 press 4
Department Chief's Office
Phone (631) 427-1629 press 2
Fax (631) 427-1727
Sub Station #2
2100 New York Ave.
Huntington Station, New York 11746
Sub Station #3
1 Totten Court
Huntington Station, New York 11746
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church is a Huntington-based parish located on 18th Street. In addition to regular services, Glora Dei offers adult bible studies, preshool care, sunday school and confirmation classes. Visit the Gloria Dei Lutheran Church Web site for more information about the parish.
The St. Lawrence Of Canterbury Church is part of the Episcopal Church.
Today, members of the Episcopal church are known both as "Episcopalians" and "Anglicans." The Episcopal Church (TEC) is one of 30 autonomous national churches that are part of the Anglican Communion. With 70 million members in 64,000 congregations in 164 countries, the Anglican Communion is the third-largest body of Christians in the world after the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox communions. The current Archbishop of Canterbury is the Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Dr. Rowan Williams.
St. Andrew's, located in Dix Hills, is a parish of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA). For more information about Orthodox Christianity visit the OCA website at http://oca.org. St. Andrew's is an active religious community with vespers every Saturday at 7pm and the Divine Liturgy every Sunday at 9:30am. Priest John Klingel resides as rector and Lasha Kvetenadze is the choir director. Visit their website for more details on other church events.
Faith Evangelical Free Church in Dix Hills is part of the Evangelical Free Church of America, which is an association of some 1,250 autonomous churches united by a mutual commitment to serve Jesus Christ with the guidance of the Holy Spirit and obedience to the word of God. The growing ministry of the EFCA currently extends to some 40 countries of the world. They describe the term "Evangelical" as their commitment to the proclamation of the Gospel and to the authority of Scriptures as being inerrant in the original autographs and the only safe and sufficient guide to faith and practice.
REACH CYA is the Regional Enrichment Agency of Commack and Half Hollow Hills Community and Youth Agency, which offers social, recreational, informational, educational and advocacy programs for middle and high school students.
Upper Room Ministries is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, having started in 1935. This group began by publishing a daily devotional guide in April 1935 in San Antonio, Texas. The guide is now one of five magazines that the Upper Room publishes in what is now a global ministry. The ministry headquarters is in Nashville, Tennessee.
The church says that if you do not belong to a local church, you can become a member of Upper Room's worldwide family. Here you will have 24/7 access to spiritual guidance, help and countless forms of support. You will also have full-time access to one of the Upper Room pastors. Live webcasts of the worship services are available online.
An affiliate of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, this temple has a religious school, a preschool, a men's club and a sisterhood. Rabbi Howard Buechler explains that there are three Hebrew words for synagogue (temple): A Beit Tefillah, a House of Prayer; a Beit Midrash, a House of Study; and a Beit Knesset, a House of Assembly. The rabbi feels that Dix Hills Jewish Center is all three. Shabbat services are held on Friday nights and Saturday mornings.
