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Week in Review: High Profile Guilty Pleas; Absentees Counted

The week's local news in a quick round-up.

Take a look back at Southampton's top stories for the past week, or catch the news you missed. Follow the links to see the full stories.

Police & Crime

Former Justice Pleads Guilty to Identity Theft: Katherine Pope, who served as Shelter Island justice from 1998 to 2002, , a misdemeanor, and her husband, Wayne Pope, pleaded guilty to fourth degree grand larceny, a felony, for stealing more than a million dollars from an 89-year-old Water Mill woman suffering from dementia.

MacPherson Pleads Guilty: Westhampton Beach resident Donald MacPherson, who was George Guldi's co-defendant in a $82 million mortgage stacking scheme,  last week before Judge James F.X. Doyle in Suffolk County Court.

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Cops: Teen Flees, Crashes Motorcycle: An 18-year-old Southampton man was arrested Nov. 8 and charged with unlawful fleeing a police officer in the third degree and reckless driving. He , according to police. He was apprehended on Mariner Drive after becoming involved in a motor vehicle accident with no reported injuries, police said.

Camera Catches Employee Swipe iPhone: A 40-year-old Southampton man was arrested in Bridgehampton and charged with petty larceny, a misdemeanor, after he in August from a table at the Water Mill restaurant where he worked, according to police.

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PHOTOS: Police Drill in Redwood: In the Redwood section of Sag Harbor on Monday, South Fork police departments . The drill was to further prepare the different police agencies on how to better coordinate their domestic disturbance response procedures.

Election

Scalera Clinches; Bender Concedes: Republican , holding onto her election night lead throughout the counting of absentee ballots.

Southampton Village Board

Three Income Levels Sought for Affordable Housing: Southampton Village officials are slated to appear before the Suffolk County Legislature on Dec. 1 to seek an extension for an affordable housing project that includes three new homes — and to request permission to .

More Businesses Wants Tree Lights: Twenty-five Southampton Village-owned trees along Jobs Lane and Main Street have been wrapped in white lights, to be illuminated throughout the holiday season, and now in this exercise of holiday cheer.

Hearing Set on Law to Allow New Grocery Store: A revision to Southampton Village on properties zoned "highway business" will be the subject of a public hearing on Jan. 12 at village hall.

Southampton Town News

2012 Operating Budget Estimated at $80.3 Million: In figures released by the town supervisor's office Tuesday, the , up 0.1 percent, or $70,822, from 2011.

Town Urged to Take Over Unimproved Roads: North Sea resident John Watson, the chair of the town’s ad hoc unimproved roads committee, is coming to the end of a long pot hole-ridden and puddle-filled road — or at least he hopes. The ex-Hampton Bays resident, who stopped by his former hamlet’s civic association meeting Monday night, has been working to , a potpourri of unpaved, narrow lanes, wide streets maintained by homeowners associations and the “minefields” of Shore and Wauhope roads.

More News

NTSB: Ounces of Fuel in Tank When Plane Crashed: Only on July 24, according to the National Transportation Safety Board, which said there were no signs that the tank had a leak.

Arts

Artist of the Week: Daniel Gonzalez has had photographs published in almost every newspaper on the East End, he shoots fashion for Newsday and he has been known to document a wedding on occasion, but .

Vocalist Fellowship Applicants Sought: The East End Arts School has opened up the submission process for every junior and senior high school student in all five East End towns to .

Holidays

Radio Production of 'Christmas Carol': Under the direction of Michael Disher, the artistic director of Center Stage at the Southampton Cultural Center, a cast of East End thespians recorded an  on Monday, which will be broadcast throughout the holiday season on 88.3 FM Peconic Public Broadcasting.

All Holidays Coverage: Find out where to shop, where to dine and where to make merry this holiday season in Southampton Patch's 2011 Holiday Guide.

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