Rte. 25 deaths spark call for improvements
Photo credit: Carl Macgowan | Barbara Gallagher and Lavena Sipes stand together as traffic goes by on Main Street. (May 10, 2011)
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The lives of Lavena Sipes of Smithtown and Barbara Gallagher of Kings Park -- strangers until Tuesday -- are intertwined at the intersection of Main Street and Lawrence Avenue in downtown Smithtown.
It was there in November 2009 that Sipes' 11-year-old daughter, Courtney, was killed by a hit-and-run driver. And it was there in February that Gallagher's son-in-law, Seamus Byrne, 33, of Smithtown,...
