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Suffolk parcel holds up farm tax break list

June 30, 2012 8:58 PM By RICK BRAND rick.brand@newsday.com

Suffolk County Legislator,William Spencer, at Riverhead Legislative Auditorium,

Photo credit: Photo by Randee Daddona | Suffolk County Legislator,William Spencer, at Riverhead Legislative Auditorium, Riverhead. (June 19, 2012)

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Last week, a resolution was put before the Suffolk Legislature to add 21 farms, totaling 607 acres, to the county's agricultural district.

While the annual procedural resolution passes routinely, one farm on this year's list stopped the entire process in its tracks.

The parcel is the 441-acre Sandpiper Farm in Asharoken, once owned by an heir to J.P. Morgan and now in use to train horses...

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