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Week in Review: Bay Street on the Move; Guilty Plea in Child Murder

Also in the week's news: Java Nation needs a new home; Southampton Village grocery store zoning proposal under fire; stranded windsurfer rescued on Robins Island.

Take is a look back at the week's top headlines in Southampton, and some news you may have missed:

Sag Harbor

Bay Street Theatre to Decide on Move Within 60 Days: Bay Street Theatre directors and board members ran down a list of about 10 options for the Sag Harbor theater's new location but , financially.

Java Nation at a Crossroad: Tucked away in a corner yet somehow poised almost in the heart of Sag Harbor is Java Nation. It seemed like just another day at Java Nation, the unofficial counterculture’s coffee shop of choice, but it wasn’t — it .

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Havens Beach Clean-Up Approved, Finally: Fifteen years and many meetings later, the clean-up work at Havens Beach in Sag Harbor is . According to The East Hampton Star, the remediation work to improve the water quality and safety at the village's only bathing beach was approved this week. The Sag Harbor Village Board and the Village Harbor Committee gave a nod to the plan formulated by Inter-Science Associates.

Drug-Sniffing Dogs May Roam Pierson Halls: Drug-sniffing police dogs are already used in high schools further west on Long Island, but Sag Harbor may be the first school district to , 27east reports.

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Southampton Village

Opponents Slam Supermarket Zoning Plan: Critics of a plan for a new grocery store on the site of a closed car dealership berated members of the Southampton Village Board Thursday night, with one resident if the proposal that would allow such development in the highway business zone passes.

Architects Awarded for School Expansion: BBS Architects & Engineers of Patchogue recently won an award in the Site Selection & Development category of School Planning & Management magazine’s 2011 Sustainability & Innovation Awards program .

Village Fights County's Sump Plan: Suffolk County's plan to dig a sump on North Main Street to collect stormwater runoff from County Road 39A is who fear the sump will tarnish an undeveloped entrance to the village, according to a 27east report.

Crime

Man Pleads Guilty to Murdering Child: Pedro Jones, 22, who was arrested in August 2010 after beating his girlfriend's son to death, Wednesday.

Village Police Log: 2 Charged With Assault at 75 Main: Southampton Village Police Department .

Southampton Incident Reports: Man Offered Ride, Then Robbed: A weekly round-up of .

Town Police Log: DWI Charged After Accident: Southampton Town for east of the Shinnecock Canal.

Town News

Councilman Controversy and Reappointments: Check out the for all the week's news on the Town Board front.

County

County Aims to Combat Pharmacy Robberies: On the heels of a violent and sometimes deadly year at Long Island pharmacies, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone announced Monday a .

Schneiderman Sworn In to Fifth Term: Suffolk County Legislator , I-Montauk, whose district covers the South Fork, was at the William H. Rogers Building in Hauppauge to his fifth two-year term last week.

Rescue

Stranded Windsurfer Rescued on Robins Island: A 68-year-old Center Moriches man who drifted into Peconic Bay alone on a windsurfing board and landed on Robins Island was shortly after noon on Friday, police said.

Community

New Scouting Group Hits East End: Rachel Stephens, of Hampton Bays, was looking for something fun to get her 8-year-old to get involved in. She tried Boy Scouts, but she said it just wasn't right for her son. She continued her search and .

Agriculture

Green Groups, Farming Community at Odds Over Pesticide Ban: Citing "alarming" data in a study being worked on by the State Department of Environmental Conservation, more than 20 environmental groups on Wednesday in an effort to protect drinking water aquifers.

Vintners: Mild Winter OK, But Sudden Freeze a Worry: With recent temperatures in the 50s in the middle of January, grapevines, like the rest of us, think it feels like spring. That means the sap in the vines, instead of spending most of its time underground, is still flowing through the upper portion of the vine, which could mean an early bud break, according to local vintners like Ann Marie Borghese of Castello di Borghese in Cutchogue. Borghese said that in her 13 years of winemaking on the North Fork, she’s .


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