Grave Concerns: Neighbor Speaks Out Against Proposed Sewage Plant Next To Her Family's Land, The Cemetery, And Park In Hampton Bays - 27 East
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Grave Concerns: Neighbor Speaks Out Against Proposed Sewage Plant Next To Her Family's Land, The Cemetery, And Park In Hampton Bays

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Members of the Wells family at their Hampton Bays property in the 1940s. Current owner, Robert Wells, is the baby sitting on the knee of his great aunt Tyne Enberg Albrecht. Good Ground Cemetery, where all the adults in the photo are buried, can be seen in the background.

Members of the Wells family at their Hampton Bays property in the 1940s. Current owner, Robert Wells, is the baby sitting on the knee of his great aunt Tyne Enberg Albrecht. Good Ground Cemetery, where all the adults in the photo are buried, can be seen in the background.

Kitty Merrill on Aug 23, 2022
Her husband, Robert, their niece Judith Salmon and she are, Linda Wells said ruefully, “the only living neighbors” of a sewage treatment plant under discussion for Hampton Bays. “Everybody else... more

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