Article: TOWN BOARD FINDS ITSELF IN THE MIDDLE KINGS ROAD BECOMING ZONING BATTLGROUND.(Local)

Byline: Rosemary O'Hara Staff writer

When 80-year-old Anthony De Filipo was a boy, Kings Road was just a sandy track, passable in winter only by sleigh.

The area was "nothing but plain pine barrens," he said. Pine trees coated the land "as thick as the hair on a dog."

De Filipo still lives in the nine-room house his family moved into in 1906. He still raises his own vegetables and fruit on a handful of his 73 acres, and all year he eats chickens raised on his home-grown corn. And he can still pull on his snowshoes and find solitude in the woods on his Kings Road property.

In short, De Filipo said, "right now I live in heaven."

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