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GreaterSayville reaches 1M views; check out the 10 stories you’ve read the most

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Staff report

GreaterSayville sailed past 1 million views earlier this week, just 18 months after its spring 2019 launch.

As of 5 p.m. Friday, the go-to community news website has pulled in 1.02 million views, with more than 710,000 unique visitors.

Through its coverage of restaurants and other businesses; popular events, such as Summerfest, high school homecomings and Miracle on Main Street; and important community topics like a proposed Starbuck’s in West Sayville, the news site’s popularity has skyrocketed.

Readers have also turned to GreaterSayville for its stories about the COVID-19 pandemic, which have included important updates on closures and openings, as well as compelling pieces about heroic healthcare workers and others who have worked on the frontline of the pandemic.

“It’s a tremendous milestone and a reminder that our team has so much to be thankful for,” GreaterSayville Editor and Co-publisher Brian Harmon said. “It’s also an extremely rewarding and humbling feeling knowing that throughout this stretch in 2020, the community has continued to invest time into consuming our product.”

GreaterSayville is jointly published by Harmon — a former New York Press Association Writer of the Year who was an assistant metro editor at the New York Daily News and an award-winning investigative reporter at The Detroit News — and Greater Long Island Media Group Inc.

Last April, Harmon’s Harmonizer Media operation produced the compelling video “Sayville in the Time of Coronavirus.”

The video has been watched more than 45,000 times. The amazing vocal talents of local singing sensation Camryn Quinlan, now an eighth grader at Sayville Middle School, are featured in the video.

“The near-immediate positive impact that GreaterSayville has had on its communities is testament to what a highly trained, professional writer and reporter is capable of,” said Michael White of Greater Long Island Media Group.

Here are GreaterSayville’s most viewed stories, so far.

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This one nearly broke the internet — well, at least our little piece of it. The story blew up so big and so fast that it pretty much shut down our web servers. It sent our webmaster scrambling to make the fixes necessary to accommodate the influx of readers. In the end, it reached more than 69,600 views.

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