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Brookhaven, NY

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  • Cops: Man arrested after iPhone robbery at ecology center

    North Patchogue man was arrested Friday morning about five minutes after robbing a woman off her iPhone at the Town of Brookhaven's Wildlife and Ecology Center in Holtsville, police said.Suffolk County police received a call at 10:45 a.m. about a man who stole   Read more »

  • Driver sentenced to 2 to 6 years in hit-run death

    about to celebrate his 50th birthday.Both Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota and family of the victim, Scott Wayte of Brookhaven, decried the sentence for Joseph Plummer, 49, as insufficient for the loss of a life."You left my dad on the road to be hit   Read more »

  • Brookhaven highway chief has emergency plan

    new highway superintendent unveiled a sweeping emergency preparedness plan yesterday, to ensure a more efficient response after the department was heavily criticized for slow snow removal during February's blizzard.In his first major news conference since   Read more »

  • Town denies Middle Island rezoning request

    Brookhaven Town Board has unanimously denied a developer's request to increase density in a Middle Island community."Obviously, I have heard from the majority of the Birchwood community," Councilwoman Connie Kepert, who represents the area, said of the 6-0   Read more »

  • Democrats now outnumber GOP in Suffolk

    do with "motor-voter" laws that allow people to register to vote when they get or renew driver's licenses. LaValle said many are young people: "They are checking boxes, but they don't vote."Suffolk Democrats now hold an enrollment edge in three of the county's   Read more »

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About Brookhaven, NY

The Town of Brookhaven is a town located in central Suffolk County, New York, USA, and stretches from the North Shore to the South Shore of Long Island. Brookhaven is part of the New York metropolitan area. The population of the town was 448,248 at the 2000 census. It is largest town (by area) in the state of New York, and the second most populous, exceeded only by the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County.

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