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Week in Review: Planning Board Reserves 7-Eleven Decision, Arrest in Town Hall Bomb Threats

The top headlines around West Islip this week.

The Town of Islip planning board reserved its decision Thursday night on the zoning change of a parcel on the corner of Udall and Muncey Roads where a .

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A Central Islip man was arrested Friday for making multiple bombs threats to Islip Town Hall over the past year, police said. 

Ronald Kellman, 41, is charged with four counts of falsely reporting an incident after police say he called in threats to Town Hall from pay phones on Nov. 17, 2011 and Jan. 11, May 23 and June 12 of this year.

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Kyle Turri, a goaltender who in just a few weeks will begin his sophomore season at Duke University, spoke with West Islip Patch about the playing for Team USA.

Marine Corp. Veteran and past potato chip route owner Anthony Dixon of West Islip has done a complete 360 after purchasing his inflatable business Jump and Slide in Deer Park seven years ago and he hasn't looked back since.

West Islip student Brooke DiPalma is one of 14 New York teens to receive a scholarship through Kohl's Department stores.

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