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Work begins on Main Road sidewalk project

By Vera Chinese

BARBARAELLEN KOCH PHOTO
Workers with E.W.Howell Co., LLC of Plainview began spreading
the concrete in Jamesport for the sidewalk project Friday
morning.

Construction has begun on a sidewalk that when completed will connect ten miles of a continuous pedestrian walkway on the north side of Main Road between Riverhead and Mattituck.
The 1.2 mile addition, which connects two existing walkways, will run from the intersection with Washington Avenue in Jamesport until Colonial Drive in Aquebogue, according to state Department of Transportation spokesperson Eileen Peters. Construction is expected to be completed by the end of the summer.
The project is part of a $940,000 initiative to install sidewalks in Jamesport, Aquebogue and Setauket. Of that money, approximately three quarters will be used for the Jamesport sidewalk, Ms. Peters said.
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Vera Chinese has been the editor of northforker.com and northforker magazines since May 2014. Prior to that she spent two and a half years as a staff reporter for the New York Daily News. She joined the Riverhead News-Review as a staff writer in January 2010 and was named Associate Web Editor nine months later. She previously worked for the Southampton Press Western Edition and was named the third place 2008 Rookie Reporter of the Year by the New York Press Association. She graduated from Wagner College in 2006 where she received a bachelor's degree in English. She earned a master's degree in English education from New York University in 2007. She is a 2002 graduate of Eastport High School and has lived on the East End for more than 20 years.

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