🌱 DWI In Hampton Bays + Flying Veterans To D.C. + Gang Sentence

Morning, Westhampton-Hampton Bays! It's Saturday, so let's get you started with everything you need to know going on in town today.

A Hamptons Bays woman was arrested for DWI after she drove into a post. And a Hamptons-based nonprofit is flying veterans to D.C. to see war memorials again after the pandemic.

First, today's weather:

Afternoon showers; breezy. High: 62 Low: 29.

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

1. Lisa Finn reports that a Hampton Bays woman was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated after a single-car crash Wednesday night. Paula Lester, 65, struck a light post at 9:47 p.m. at Skippers Cottages on E. Montauk Highway. (Patch)
2. Southampton-based Honor Flight Long Island Honor Flight Long Island resumed its first flight since 2019 last month. Nine World War II veterans were given free, chaperoned flights to the Washington, D.C. war memorial erected in their honor. (Dan's Papers)
3. The Daily Voice writes that a Long Island Bloods gang member faces life in prison after being found guilty of murder, forcible rape, sex trafficking, and drug possession. Lawrence Lewis, 38, of Calverton, was convicted Tuesday for the 2017 murder of John Birt, the forcible rape and sex trafficking of a Suffolk County woman and many more charges. (Daily Voice)

Today in Westhampton-Hampton Bays:

• Boy Scout Thanksgiving Food Drive, Church of St. Rosalie, Hampton Bays, 9 a.m.
• Monthly Poetry with the Poetry Rising Group, Hampton Bays Public Library, 1 p.m.
• JB Smoove, Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center, 8 p.m.

Westhampton-Hampton Bays Patch Notebook

• Long Island Native Plant Initiative (LINPI) is looking for volunteers to help preserve Long Island's natural history and botanists and nature lovers for their volunteer board. (Facebook)
• On Tuesday, Nov. 16, join the Hamptons Observatory and the South Fork Natural History Museum for an online astronomy lecture on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope by William Francis Taylor at 7 p.m. (East End Beacon)

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