🌱 Armed Robbery At Big Lots + Selling Alcohol To Minors

Morning, North Fork! Here's everything you need to know to get this Thursday started off right.

A Big Lots store was robbed at gunpoint. Fees are being raised at three municipal facilities in Greenport. And two gas station clerks are accused of selling alcohol to minors.

First, today's weather:

Sun, then clouds; milder. High: 52 Low: 41.

Here are the top stories today in North Fork:

1. Lisa Finn reports that a Big Lots store in Riverhead was robbed at gunpoint Tuesday. Two women tried to steal merchandise in a baby carriage and a third man may have been involved. (Patch)
2. The Suffolk Times explains that Greenport's Mitchell Park carousel rides and the marina will get a little more expensive, from $2 to $3. (Suffolk Times)
3. RiverheadLOCAL reports that two gas station convenience store clerks in Riverhead were arrested by state police yesterday for selling alcohol to minors: Ates Gursev, 42, of Port Jefferson Station, a clerk at Mobil Gas on East Main Street and Ilyas Cakir, 62, of Bay Shore, a clerk at BP Gas on Old Country Road. (RiverheadLOCAL)
4. Riverhead Town is now accepting applications for the upcoming season’s shotgun-hunting lottery. The lottery for the permits for deer-hunting on town-owned property during the special January season takes place Dec. 7 at 6 p.m. It's open to licensed and eligible hunters, who must have a current and valid New York State hunter’s license, a state big game tag, and must be either a Riverhead resident or property owner. (RiverheadLOCAL)

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North Fork Patch Notebook

• A new West Nile virus case is a Town of Southold resident who is over the age of 50 who became ill with West Nile virus in early October, was hospitalized in mid-October, and has almost fully recovered at home. (Patch)
• Sammy the cat has been missing for a few days: He is 16-year-old black cat wearing a blue collar with stars and moons on it last seen near Factory and Old Sound avenues in Mattituck. (Facebook)
• Southold Historical Museum's Holiday Fair is coming up, on Dec. 4 at the Peconic Rec Center. (Facebook)
• Cutchogue New Suffolk Free Library opened registration for an estate planning seminar on Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. (Facebook)

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