While sitting at a youth baseball game the morning of July 10, four Litchfield kids were impatiently huddled around a cell phone, waiting to hear the Medallion Hunt clue broadcast over the radio.

It’s out with the old. The Town of Hempstead is ditching its decades-old rusted and dilapidated water tower with a “state-of-the-art” replacement because it’s cheaper than giving it a ...