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Weekly Roundup: 5 Headlines You Might Have Missed

Headlines from Westhampton to Hampton Bays during the week of Feb. 27.

1.

The owner of a Hampton Bays home, located at 3 Surf Street in Hampton Bays, has been cited for unsafe conditions.

According to a statement sent to the media on Friday, town investigators and enforcement units assisted by the Fire Marshal‘s Office and the Southampton Town Police Department inspected the home last Tuesday and found that there were more than 12 people living in the house, including six young children.

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2.

charged Dennis Malerba, Jr. 31 of Westhampton Beach with grand larceny in the third degree, a felony, on Friday after arresting him at the corner of Montauk Highway and East Pond Lane.

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Police say the arrest comes after an investigation that stemmed from a report from a Remseburg woman that her dog walker was "pilfering jewelry and silverware from her home."

3.

Residents of the have spoken — they approved a referendum asking residents if the across the street from the school district for future school use with a vote of 414 to 173.

4.

Just a few days after Bruce King, president of the Hampton Bays Civic Association, wrote a complaining of the MTA's failure to clean-up debris left over from projects of past at the Hampton Bays Train Station, the MTA started a clean-up effort. However, walking along the track on a rainy Wednesday afternoon, it was clear that was a lot more to be done.

5.

A look at how CEO, Robert Chaloner, a long-time hospital administrator experienced in steering medical facilities through choppy waters, has changed since he took over five years ago.

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