The Perfect Local Shop for Your Next Gift Need: Sweeties

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If you’ve ever driven down 25A in Huntington, chances are you’ve passed the cute, little yellow candy cottage known as Sweeties located at 142 East Main Street. Owner, Lisa Hodes, bought the business back in 2005 as a single mother trying to balance life and kids and had zero experience in chocolate making!

IMG_0873 – Going Local Long Island — Owner of Sweeties Lisa Hodes

Lisa believes in not following the rules when it comes to chocolate making, which can be seen in her Smoreobars, Tiramasu Truffles and Snicker Bark! She has become of a master of her craft and is always thinking up new ways to create new products. Her best seller is her “Better than a Cupcake” which is 2 chocolate chip cookies, filled with icing and then dipped in homemade chocolate. They are to die for. If you don’t get one the next time you stop in, you are depriving yourself of a magical treat.

IMG_0872 – Going Local Long Island — Chocolate

IMG_0889 – Going Local Long Island — Chocolate

Sweeties Offerings

This local sweet shop offers a ton of candy, including nostalgic items like Razzles or Biemans, and has a huge toy selection as well! They can create a custom gift basket for any occasion and can even wrap it! They offer custom items for college acceptance, graduation, corporate events and are a great place when looking for gifts for clients for the holidays!

IMG_0866 – Going Local Long Island — Candy Bouquet

IMG_0876 – Going Local Long Island — Candy Bouquet

Sweeties is known to be THE place for the holiday and event candy needs! Lisa creates options for every occasion including Halloween, Thanksgiving, bridal showers and so many more! She offers a ton of Halloween candy options like her Spooky Chocolate Covered Oreos and creates an entire Thanksgiving meal made out of chocolate! If you have an engagement party or baby or bridal shower coming up, they will create the cutest party favors around… and they’re delicious!

IMG_0890 – Going Local Long Island — Thanksgiving turkey made of chocolate

IMG_0869 – Going Local Long Island — Thanksgiving turkey made of chocolate

If you have kids, they will LOVE this place, and if you’re a kid at heart, you will too! Make sure to check out Sweeties Candy Cottage located at 142 East Main Street for all of your chocolate, candy and toy needs! For more information, visit their website here.

Address: 142 E Main St, Huntington, NY 11743

Hours:

Saturday	10 AM–6 PM
Sunday	10:30 AM–6 PM
Monday	10 AM–6 PM
Tuesday	10 AM–6 PM
Wednesday	10 AM–6 PM
Thursday	10 AM–6 PM
Friday	10 AM–6:30 PM

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Melissa Farrell

Melissa Farrell has a mission to support local business by "Going Local." As a local business owner herself, she understands the struggles entrepreneurs face when owning a business and is always trying to find ways to shine a spotlight onto them. Melissa started Going Local Tours & Experiences back in 2020 during the pandemic in hopes to bring people back into local restaurants and shops. She created food tours in Huntington, NY that would stop at 3-4 local businesses and gave the guests the chance to meet the owner and hear the story behind the business. She soon realized how powerful storytelling is when connecting people to local businesses and created options with local store owners as well to bring them onto the tour to share their story. Melissa wanted to expand out of Huntington to be able to support even more local businesses and started creating luxury picnics where she would bring local to you! She would find local businesses in the area of the picnic set up and deliver it to you offering ways to support over 3 local businesses at each picnic. This wasn't enough. She wanted to find a better way to help spread awareness of local businesses and share their stories. Enter Evangeline Knell...a woman with over 30 years of broadcasting experience who somehow convinced Melissa to host a 3 day live stream from the Huntington Fall Festival. She had never been on camera before, but working alongside Evie to create the 3 shows, gave Melissa the confidence to take on the challenge. The 3 shows produced focused on the local vendors, the food trucks and the events that occurred at the festival and had a much larger reach than Melissa could ever of done on her own. They soon realized a business partnership was needed and combined their two businesses, Identity Digital which is a production company and Going Local Tours and Experiences to form Going Local Media. Evie and Melissa even formed their own distribution outlet by creating Going Local TV, a streaming platform like Netflix or YouTube, that is all about local businesses, events and organizations on Long Island. There are over 200 videos including their podcast series "Let's Get Local" "Long Island Business Minds" and "Local Business Spotlight" that help spread awareness of our local businesses and Long Island Professionals. They are always thinking up new ways to support local, including this site, Going Local Today that is a directory of articles on how to Go Local on Long Island. We appreciate you taking the time to read this and for supporting local! Thank you!

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