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Person of Year 2019: James Larocca

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Sag Harbor Village Trustee James Larocca addresses the crowd at the John Steinbeck Waterfront Park on Friday. DANA SHAW

author on Jan 2, 2020
In the summer of 2015, when Sag Harbor Village announced it would try to buy a spit of land between the Lance Cpl. Jordan Haerter Veterans Memorial Bridge and 7-Eleven... more

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