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Week in Review: Fires, Black Ice and Arrests

Happenings in Westhampton -Hampton Bays during the week of Jan. 16.

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Snow and ice on Thursday night caused a number of motor vechicle accidents, including one in Riverside. Police urges residents to stay of the roads, which were quickly turning to black ice.

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A sherif's department K-9 Unit located a wanted Riverhead Man in a Hampton Bays home. The man, police said was hiding under furniture.

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Southampton police arrested an 18-year-old woman on felony criminal micheif charges after an invetigations. Police say the teen intentially damaged a BMW in August.

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The Village of Westhampton Beach said it is set on raising summer rental permit fees from $100 to $150 to residents that rent their homes for 30 days or less and $250 for those who rent their homes for more than 30 days.

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A Westhampton Beach business owner says he is going to put on his boxing gloves and participate in the Long Island's Fight for Charity event in March.

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On Tuesday evening, the Westhampton Beach fire department extiguished a basement fire at the old Air Force base housing complex in Westhampton. There were no injuries.

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Preliminary reports indicate that East End resident James Riley, 60 had four times the legal limit of alchol in his body when he crashed into an East Hampton family on Sunrise Highway near exit 63 on New Year's Eve. Riley, who was driving the wrong way, died in the accident.

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An application to subdivide the East Quogue Cruzin East club has been submitted to the Town of Southampton Planning Board. The applications asks for a subdivision that would make way for four homes.

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A hearing on a controversial 100-foot cell towner proposed to be constructed next to the East Quogue fire house was adjourned to Feb. 9

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The Westhampton Beach Fire Department responded to an electrical fire at 101 Oneck Lane in Westhampton Beach on Thursday evening. No injuries were reported.


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