TIMES HERALD The Village
Stony Brook • old Field • Strong’S neck • Setauket • eaSt Setauket • South Setauket • Poquot t March 19, 2015
Volume 40, No. 3
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also: Irish Step Dancing at CSH Library, BNL Science Bowl winners
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Some of the three Village community’s most historically minded residents came together Sunday for an eventful discussion on the origins of the culper Spy ring and its north Shore roots. residents packed the emma S. clark Memorial library, where speakers sported colonial garb.
Setauket’s citizens, soldiers and spies
Brookhaven roads make bumpy ride
Town grapples with thawing streets
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Three Village has history. The Emma S. Clark Memorial Library hosted another packed event looking through the looking glass of the famous Culper Spy Ring, with community historians lining a panel
wearing outfits from the period. Five historians, while looking the part, spoke about the lives of citizens, soldiers and spies who made up General George Washington’s secret Setauket spy ring and how it inspired the celebrat-
ed AMC series, “Turned.” The panel included Barbara Russell, Brookhaven Town historian; Beverly Tyler, Three Village Historical Society historian; Mark Rothenberg of the Suffolk Cooperative Library
System; Elizabeth Kaplan, curator and docent for the Spies! TVHS exhibit; and Bob Winowitch, a living historian with the 3rd New York Regiment. - Phil corSo
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Stony Brook treats cop shot in Huntington Station By BarBara donlon
In a dramatic turnaround, a Suffolk County cop is back home just three days after being shot twice during a routine traffic stop in Huntington Station last week. Officer Mark Collins, 35, who is assigned to the 2nd Precinct Crime Section’s Gang Unit, and two other officers were in an unmarked police car when they stopped a vehicle for speeding and erratic driving on Jericho Turnpike just before midnight on Wednesday, March 11. During the stop, there were four individuals in the car police
recognized as members of the Huntington Station gang Tip Top Boyz, according to Bob Clifford, a spokesman for the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office. Passenger Sheldon Leftenant, 22, of Mastic Beach, allegedly fled from the vehicle on foot to Mercer Court. Clifford said Collins chased after him and tried to arrest him, when Leftenant drew a .38 caliber handgun and fired four shots at Collins. Collins was air lifted to Stony Brook University Photo by Pam Robinson Hospital and was released Suffolk county Police officer Mark collins greets fellow officer nicholas on Sunday. guerrero, both who were shot in the line of duty in huntington town COP continued on page a5 within the last year.