Doreen Buckley, with her mane of blond hair and a bright, welcoming smile, is aware of how she appears at first glance. On the surface, she is educated, has a home and has worked within the Tuckahoe Common School District for 15 years. But none of this she takes for granted. Her past is not so picture-perfect, she explained, and it is one that allows her to connect with some of her students and their ...
Editorials
Setting aside politics for a moment, the federal government shutdown, now in its fifth week, is having significant consequences. A Washington Post story last week...
Letters
Baffling DecisionSouthampton Town Democratic Chairman Gordon Herr picked the wrong election cycle to sit out. His baffling decision to not run a second Democrat Town Council candidate came amid a blue wave that swept across eastern Long Island, New Jersey and Virginia — a wave that carried all five Democratic Town Trustees candidates in Southampton Town and even ousted experienced and well-liked Trustee President Scott Horowitz. Town Democrats should have been prepared for a pendulum swing like this, yet they weren’t....
ArroganceSouthampton Village Mayor Bill Manger and his loyalist attorney, Eileen Powers, are once again wrong, this time by blocking access to an Architectural Review Board study that could expand Southampton Village’s historic district. Their excuse? They call the report a “draft.” Under New York’s Freedom of Information Law (Public Officers Law § 87[2][g]), that justification doesn’t hold. FOIL explicitly prohibits an agency from withholding “statistical or factual tabulations or data,” even when those appear in a preliminary document. If a...
The Westhampton Beach girls tennis team has made the most of its at-large bid, beating ....
Read More Southampton SportsThe East Hampton/Pierson/Bridgehampton girls swim team finished its regular season 3-3 in League II dual ...
Read More East Hampton SportsFor a decade, the Pierson/Bridgehampton field hockey team reaching, and winning, the Suffolk County Class ...
Read More Sag Harbor SportsFor many artists, the key to success is finding the right producer or musical guide to help polish…
