Finally, after years of yelling and screaming, a new group is trying to do something positive to bring our community together again…

The group has about 20 members and is drawing both longtime residents concerned about Farmingville's seemingly intractable problems with its day laborer population, and Latino immigrants themselves, many of whom consider the community home. After meeting out of the limelight for six months, the group held its first public event Oct. 15 when, with an eye toward helping Farmingville present a better face, about 100 people spent the day cleaning up trash in the Horseblock Road area. They collected 1.4 tons.

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