Community Corner

Town of Huntington Gets New Website

Old site disabled by Hurricane Irene.

The Town of Huntington has a new website, rushed into service when Hurricane Irene knocked the original site offline Saturday night.

The new address is http://HuntingtonNY.gov; email addresses are NAME@HuntingtonNY.gov.

While the change was planned a few months ago, the changeover was propelled when the old address, town.huntington.ny.us, was knocked out by the storm. "The contracted data center that hosted the old address was disabled by the storm, and the contractor was unable to provide the Town with a definite timetable for it becoming active again," the town said Sunday morning.

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Supervisor Frank P. Petrone ordered the new address to be activated immediately. “Fortuitously, we had been working on this change and were close to launch when this problem developed, and our Information Technology department was able to activate the new name in the middle of a storm so that our residents would not lose touch with their Town government,” he said. “We hope our residents will appreciate the new name, which is shorter, easier to remember and better fits the standards of other municipalities.”

Eventually, the Town hopes to restore the old address and support it alongside “HuntingtonNY.gov” for a transition period.

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