This Week, Brush Fires Bring Out Volunteers of All Kinds

The big news this week were the brush fires raging out on the east end. Firefighters from every department in Suffok answered the call, including many from Port Jefferson. Volunteers of a different sort came out to lend a hand as local animal rescue groups helped people evacuate their pets from the danger zone.

The village of Port Jefferson and the Port Jefferson School District continued to work with their budgets this week and a woman who was supposed to be running a local food pantry pled not guilty to charges she was selling fake Tiffany jewelry.

Below see our list of some of the top news you might have missed this week in Port Jefferson Patch.

County executive Steve Bellone has called 109 fire departments in Suffolk County to help extinguish the large brush fires in the area around Brookhaven National Laboratory.

As raging in Calverton, others have came out to offer assistance to people who had to flee the area with their four-legged friends in tow.

Mary Ann Bell, the Stony Brook woman who was , pled not guilty in Suffolk County Criminal Court in Riverhead in February to charges of Trademark Counterfeiting, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office.

Various departments within Port Jefferson have seen their wish lists sliced and diced as the village trimed expenses ahead of the April 16 budget hearing.

Proceeds from a recent seminar benefit the needy of Port Jefferson.

received $94,800 more from New York State than it did last year, according to Sean Leister, the school’s assistant superintendent for business.