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ICYMI: Town Employees Help Local Residents Find Wallet, Phone Tossed In Trash

Check out this story reported last week on Syosset Patch.

In case you missed it, here's a story that appeared last week in Syosset Patch:

SYOSSET, NY - It may have been a dirty job, but that didn't stop a group of nine employees from helping a local resident find his wife's wallet and cellphone that was accidentally thrown out in the Town's garbage landfill.

Earlier this week, the resident accidentally threw them out the items with the morning trash.

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Although it was certainly an unpleasant job, the employees from the Department of Public Works and the Department of Environmental Resources Solid Waste Disposal Complex understood the importance of the task and did not hesitate in sorting through mounds of garbage in searching for the lost valuables.

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