To the Editor:
After renting for many summers on the Island, we were fortunate in 2004 when my wife’s mother sold us her place in Holgate, a “Shapiro shack” she and my wife’s dad bought in 1978. When I retired in 2011, we built a new home on the property. We planned our new house to fit into the neighborhood, and provide us a comfortable year-round home. We received our final CO in August 2012, just 90 days before Sandy blew in.
We weathered the evacuation and disruptions of Sandy, and being displaced from Holgate as we repaired the damage to our…
October 19, 2016
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