🌱 Cancer-Causing Chemicals On LI + Veterans Parade Marshal

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A Westhampton Air Force sergeant will lead NYC's Veterans Day Parade. And new information about where cancer-causing PFA chemicals are on LI has been released.

First, today's weather:

Some sun, then clouds. High: 57 Low: 52.

Here are the top stories today in Montauk:

1. Westhampton resident, retired Air Force Senior Master Sergeant Kevin Carrick will be the grand marshal of 2021's New York City Veterans Day Parade. Carrick served for over two decades as a pararescueman with the 106th Rescue Wing out of the Francis S. Gabreski Air National Guard Base in Westhampton. (WABC-TV)
2. News 12 looks at new data from EPA released by The Citizens Campaign for the Environment showing where PFA, cancer-causing chemicals are located. Gabreksi Airport in Westhampton is one. (News 12)
3. AM New York talks to an amputee athlete who began racing triathlons in his second year of being an amputee. His first-ever event was this June at the Montauk Lighthouse Triathlon. (AMNY)

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Today in Montauk:

• Veterans Day Flag Ceremony, Montauk Playhouse Community Center, 11 a.m.
• Classics Zoom Book Group with Carolyn : "The Catcher in the Rye," by J.D. Salinger, Montauk Library, 4 p.m.

Montauk Patch Notebook

• Montauk Brewing Company is brewing a new beer to commemorate the end of 2021: On The Horizon 2021 – 2022 is a double IPA with lemon, lime and citrus with herbal aromas. (Brewbound.com)

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