COVID-19 Update: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut Issue Travel Advisory, 14-Day Quarantine
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Staff Writer on Jun 18, 2020
Wednesday, 12:20 p.m.: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut Issue Travel Advisory, 14-Day Quarantine People visiting or returning to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut from states with high COVID-19 infection... more
Southampton Town Police announced on Thursday that they have arrested a Farmingville man in connection with the September armed robbery of a Flanders deli. Police say that Demario L. Weston Jr., 22, entered the El Quetzal Deli on Flanders Road at about noon on September 23 and pointed a gun at the clerk, demanding she hand over cash in the register. The clerk told police that the man then struck her with the handgun he was holding multiple times before making off with $6,000 in cash from the store. After a months-long investigation by Southampton Town Police detectives and the ...
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It seems a lifetime ago, but there were moments of real promise in the relationship between the Shinnecock Nation and state and local governments. In 2020, after workers at a building site in Shinnecock Hills disturbed the remains of an Indigenous person, the town swiftly took action. A year later, the Town Board delivered a new law aimed at protecting graves and other culturally significant sites in town, with a focus on locations of importance to the nation. Two years later, New York State followed with a long-overdue law protecting unmarked graves. “I’m so happy it got done and this ...
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Staff Writer on Jun 18, 2020