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On the Police Logs 01.25.24

On Jan. 11, at the Mobil gas station on Main Street, passers-by noticed what turned out to be “fire suppression materials” sprayed all over the pavement there. An employee told police that his jacket had “got caught on an extinguisher pin” the night before, which apparently “activated the system in error.”

Richard Gambino

Richard Gambino, recently of North Haven and Southampton, who rose to prominence in academia with his books on Italian-American history, died on Jan. 12 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital at the age of 84. He had dementia and lymphoma.