Politics & Government
Plumb is Highest Bidder on Little Gull
Newsday reports name of Connecticut businessman who's about to own Little Gull Island.
The owner of Plumb Products machine tool company in Woodbury, Conn., is the highest bidder on Little Gull Island, a federally owned island with a historic lighthouse from 1869 that the General Services Administration put up for auction in October.
Newsday reports that Fred Plumb bid the high bid of $381,000 on the island, located about eight miles east of Orient Point. GSA spokesman Patrick Sclafani said that the GSA has accepted the bid and anticipates closing on the deal in the next several weeks.
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