"We were freaking out a little. We didn't really believe what we were looking at," said said one of the fishermen who spotted the shark. "It's pretty rare."
Pericles Linardos said he has spent five years filing court motions and appeals since the Village of Muttontown fined him almost $23,000 for having trees removed from his front yard after superstorm Sandy.
The Village of Nissequogue Fire Department is buying a $47,000 powered stretcher and ambulance load system, in part because people are getting too heavy for emergency personnel to safely lift, said Chief Russell von Frank.