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Town demolishes Wading River fire damaged home

By Vera Chinese

VERA CHINESE PHOTO | Riverhead Town Highway workers demolished a fire damaged home on Kay Road in Wading River Tuesday.

Riverhead Town Highway Department workers demolished a fire damaged home in Wading River Tuesday.

The house, located at 77 Kay Road, had caught fire in October. Neighbors said no one was living in the house at the time.

Riverhead Town Highway superintendent George Woodson said workers would likely remove the debris sometime Tuesday or Wednesday.

Mr. Woodson said the building was demolished at the request of the Riverhead Town Board.

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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