It didn’t matter that Crab Meadow Beach lifeguard Alex Kiewra had never made a “serious rescue” before Tuesday afternoon. When word came in that three kayakers were stranded more than a mile from shore in the Long Island Sound, he and fellow lifeguard Connor Quinn immediately took action.

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Margaret Norton, a pillar of the Cold Spring Harbor community who taught in the Cold Spring Harbor School District for 45 years, died on June 24 of natural causes, her son, Bill Norton, said.  She was 105.

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