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From Smithtown: Utility Pole Fire Closes Smithtown Library's Main Branch
Have a must-read book you want to grab from the library, you might have to wait.

The Smithtown Library has temporarily closed its Main Branch, located at 1 N. Country Road in Smithtown, due to a power outage. Patrons and staff were evacuated from the building at roughly 11 a.m.

The scare happened when a worker discovered a Rubbermaid box containing an object covered in wires, tape, flares, along with a letter addressed to "The President of America" with an Arabic name in the return address, in the trunk of a Hyundai Sonata they were beginning to detail.

From Kings Park: Kings Park Firefighters Gear Up to Celebrate 100 Years of Service

Kings Park Fire Department is preparing to celebrate their 100th anniversary with a community celebration this Saturday. It's one more example of how much they give to the town - for quite likely more than a century.

"The general yard that is kind of agreed upon is the year 1913," said Miles Borden, firefighter and historian of the Kings Park Fire Department. "But there is evidence, I've found, that this little fire brigade existed as early as 1908. 

From Three Village: Cab Driver Killed in East Setauket Accident

Police have identified a taxi driver who died early Friday morning in a car crash in East Setauket as Wayne Bracone, 58, of Ridge. Bracone was driving a 2001 Ford for Islandwide Taxi when the cab left the roadway and struck a utility pole at Gnarled Hollow Road and Route 25A. He was pronounced dead at the scene.