Week in Review: MTA Payroll Tax Reduced, Sweet Booth at Smith Haven

Here's a look back at the top news articles that were published on Hauppauge back from Dec. 11 to Dec. 17: 

*: Hauppauge-based nonprofit charities, hospitals and the school district say that reductions were a step in the right direction, but do not go far enough. They speak out on what further steps are needed to bring taxes and costs under control. 

*  Have you ever stumbled by the pink-and-white striped booth at Smith Haven Mall in Lake Grove? We take a closer look at the homemade, sugary confections offered by the Scrumption Treat Company. 

* : A Hauppauge-based accounting firm is renovating a former two-story house into a Smithtown office in hopes others will follow their lead. 

* :  New York State Department of Transportation speaks out on how the decorative barriers being installed on Route 347/Nesconset Highway are the first of their kind. 

* : Petland Discounts is the last business to move out of a Lake Grove shopping center at the intersection of Routes 347 and 25, after Sixth Avenue Electronics and Ara International's closures.