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Records: Nassau paid Looks Great per tree

One of the downed trees in the Welwyn

Photo credit: Newsday / Audrey C. Tiernan | One of the downed trees in the Welwyn Preserve in Glen Cove that Nassau County contractor Looks Great Services Inc. chopped down. (Dec. 13, 2012)

Nassau County paid a Huntington tree service for each of 141 trees taken down in the Welwyn Preserve in Glen Cove after superstorm Sandy -- although county officials assured lawmakers the firm would be paid at a lesser rate for time worked, records show.

The bill for felling 117 trees and cutting up two dozen more already on the ground came to more than $105,000, not including labor costs,...

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