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Brittany Wait
Brittany Wait joined newsday.com as a community journalist in April after a stint at the Times Beacon Record Newspapers in Setauket. She is a 2011 graduate of the Stony Brook University School of Journalism.
Eastern Suffolk BOCES students win national automotive competition
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Casey Cotrone and Ryan Lafata had been training since November for an automotive competition that would help them pay for college.
They trained for two hours after school, on weekends and over spring break.
And it all paid off.
Eastern Suffolk BOCES Automotive Technology students Cotrone, 17, and Lafata, 18, both seniors at Eastport-South Manor High School, were winners at the...
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