🌱 Big Lots Robbed + Boardy Barn Owner Dies + Saving Turkeys

Happy Thanksgiving, Westhampton-Hampton Bays! Here's everything you need to know going on today.

One of the owners of Boardy Barn died this week. Three people robbed Big Lots in Riverhead. And local animal activists are saving two turkeys this Thanksgiving.

First, today's weather:

Milder. High: 53 Low: 39.

Here are the top stories today in Westhampton-Hampton Bays:

1. Local animal activists are celebrating after saving the life of a turkey, as well as a chick, destined for slaughter. Long Island Orchestrating for Nature (LION) convinced a live New York City slaughterhouse to spare the life of a turkey and a week-old chick. The birds are recovering at LION's headquarters in Riverhead. (Patch)
2. 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)
3. Fans of the Boardy Barn in Hampton Bays are remembering co-owner Anthony "Tony" Galgano who died at age 78. (Subscription: Newsday)
4. 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)

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• Greater Long Island looks at how Center Moriches neighbors are rallying around a family struggling with a recent brain cancer diagnosis, raising nearly $13,000 and organizing a “Meal Train” for Scott Leslie, 50, who has two sons with his wife Erica. He was recently diagnosed with glioblastoma. (Greater Long Island)

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