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WATERTOWN — Old Engine 77 looks a whole lot better these days than when the fire truck sat in a strawberry field in Sandy Creek for about 12 years.

Suffolk County has less than 10% of the state's farmland but used about three times more insect-killing chemicals than any of the state's four biggest farming counties in 2021, according to officials.

Secretary of Defense William Cohen announced that the United Stateswill resume military-to-military contacts with China.

Christina M. Looney has been named practice group chair for its the litigation group Sutin, Thayer & Browne.

WATERTOWN — Fifty-four years ago, Robert J. Johnston learned how to work on a pumper truck that was the first piece of equipment that the Watertown Town Fire Department ever owned. That same 1952 truck — old Engine 77 — is back where it belongs, sitting in the department’s Fire Station and back from a refurbishment project that started six years ago. “It came back looking pretty good for being 69 years old and almost as old as I am,” said the 73-year-old firefighte...