David Bouchier Offers a Taste of The Real South of France
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David Bouchier
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Annette Hinkle on Sep 8, 2019
On Saturday, September 14 at 1 p.m., George Theotacatos gives an author talk at East Hampton Library on his book “Finding Ithaka.” The memoir spans five generations and four continents... more
It was a Friday around 2 p.m. My mission, which I chose to accept, was to drop a package at UPS. As I drove there, the “Mission Impossible” song went through my head: “Dun dun dundun dun dun dundun doodle-doo, doodle-doo …” The traffic crawled. When I approached the store, my internal theme song stopped. Abort! Abort! There’s no parking! A car is double-parked in front! Ah, the Hamptons, where people double-park because they’re special. Crowds? Traffic? This annual topic is so cliché. Are we really going down this road? Again? We are. But we’ll go down it at a ...
by Tracy Grathwohl
It was one of those music moments. You know the kind: The atmosphere shifts. A few notes, and suddenly you feel it in your body. Something. Inexplicable. How does music do that? It happened a few weeks ago: a few miles from home; an orchestra; sitting in a lawn chair, looking up at the wind swirling in the trees, the birds circling. Could they feel it, I wondered? I needed it. A tender moment — a sign that the human spirit is beautiful. It was a temporary reprieve from all the shit that’s taking place in my name: masked government ...
by Biddle Duke
This is an open appeal to humanity to speak out against the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza. Palestinian people are presently starving to death in Gaza, in addition to medicines and medical supplies being held up and not being permitted into Gaza. Also, the Israeli government, under Benjamin Netanyahu’s leadership, will not allow United Nations observers to come into Gaza. The situation in Gaza is appalling. How can a solution be had with the current situation? So, again, I appeal to people of good will to speak out. Jeffrey Jeffries Hampton Bays
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As I write this letter, an ambulance and police officer are responding to yet another motor vehicle accident in front of my office at the intersection of County Road 39 and Shrubland Road in Southampton. This is the third accident I’ve had to report to 911 this summer. I’ve lost count of how many car accidents I’ve witnessed from my window in the last 10 years, but I know the death count: too many. Moments ago, a motorcycle got sideswiped by a car changing lanes that didn’t see him passing on the right. Three weeks ago, someone pulled out abruptly ...
by Staff Writer
The initial happening that led to a Suffolk County Legislature was a dinner involving I. William Bianchi, a florist from Bellport — with a special focus on growing orchids — and attorney Frederic Block, who had a practice then in Patchogue and went on to become a U.S. District Court judge, which, at 91, he still is. In the upcoming election, Suffolk County voters will decide on what would be a big change for the county’s governing body since being created in 1970: four-year rather than two-year terms for its 18 members. Bill Bianchi, a Democrat, now 94 years old, ...
by Karl Grossman
To Democrats, who no doubt are not getting much information, or, if mentioned at all, are getting it whitewashed by their favorite source of bias, The New York Times, I refer you to the campaign of misinformation referred to as “Russiagate.” I can imagine your eyes rolling at its mention, but, to put it in perspective, its damage to the reputation of our democratic history of government dwarfs Watergate. It begins with revelations concerning improper and illegal handling of national security intelligence on private phones and computer servers by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. This activity, when revealed, became criminally ...
by Staff Writer
An editor’s note from Letters: “Zohran Mamdani … is a Democratic Socialist, not a Communist” [“House On Fire,” August 21]. Yeah, and Joe Biden is “sharp as a tack”! Is there a term for the eternally gullible? I guess “liberal” will have to do for now. Frank Kubin Westhampton Beach
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Annette Hinkle on Sep 8, 2019