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Week in Review: Local Hero Dies, New Supermarket Coming to Town

What made headlines on Three Village Patch this week.

The biggest news story of the week was the death of Joseph DiBernardo Jr., a former Setauket volunteer firefighter who later became a New York City firefighter and survived the tragic "Black Sunday" fire in 2005. Later in the week, friends and family launched a successful campaign to , DiBernardo's canine companion.

News of the upcoming opening of a discount grocery chain, Aldi, sparked a discussion over whether the store can succeed. Check out the story here.

at the Coventry Commons, the aging shopping center on Stony Brook Road at Nesconset Highway. Patch asked you at that location.

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Three people were injured when earlier this week. Both vehicles were heading south on Nicolls Road at the time of the crash, though the exact cause of the accident was not immediately apparent.


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