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Southampton Building Alliance Breaks Ground On Tuckahoe Woods Affordable Housing Project

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Fifth graders at Remsenburg-Speonk Elementary Schoolhelps stuff care packages for soldiers over seas. BY ERIN MCKINLEY

Fifth graders at Remsenburg-Speonk Elementary Schoolhelps stuff care packages for soldiers over seas. BY ERIN MCKINLEY

authorAmanda Bernocco on Dec 18, 2017
By next spring, two Southampton Town families will be selected to move into a pair of newly constructed affordable homes in Tuckahoe, called “Tuckahoe Woods.” Each of the homes—one is... more

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