Express News Group Interns Reflect on Their Second Summer in the Newsroom | 27Speaks Podcast
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27Speaks on Aug 7, 2025
Dan Stark and Hope Hamilton both returned to The Express News Group newsroom in 2025 for their second consecutive summer as full-time interns. Stark and Hamilton join the editors on the podcast to discuss their experiences and most memorable articles and to reflect on what they learned that they will carry with them into their future careers.
SAG HARBOR VILLAGE — On Sunday night Village Police were called to a restaurant on Main Street. According to the management of the restaurant, an individual was brandishing a fork and threatening to stab the restaurant’s staff. Police arrived and located the suspect, the report says. The man told police that he had paid for his food and had sat down to eat with his family when the staff took the food away from him and told him to leave. The police report says officers were able to view a surveillance video at the restaurant, which seemed to confirm what ...
6 Aug 2025 by Staff Writer
A bad idea doesn’t improve with age. Suffolk County is about to discover this. In November, the county will ask its voters, once again, to sign off on four-year terms for county legislators. That’s double the current two-year term, and it comes on the heels of a 2023 state law that will switch local elections to even-number years — when federal and state positions are on the ballot, too. There’s almost nothing new about the proposed switch to four-year terms when comparing it to 2020, when seven out of 10 Suffolk County voters rejected the idea. Columnist Karl Grossman offers ...
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Last Wednesday, a utility work crew thought the middle of morning rush hour was the best time to do some maintenance work along County Road 39, closing one eastbound lane. The result, not surprisingly, was a backup that stretched nearly to East Quogue, and bungled things up for much of the day. It’s a fact: The traffic problem on the South Fork gets worse every year, and there are precious few workable solutions on the table. Credit Charlie McArdle, Southampton Town’s highway superintendent, and Southampton Village officials in particular for trying some things, hoping to hit on a silver bullet. ...
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A staple of the summer, the Eastville Community Historical Society’s annual fish fry, returns on Saturday, August 9, to the Heritage House Museum at 139 Hampton Street in Sag Harbor. This is the 40th annual event, and tickets, which include a donation to the Historical Society, are $50 each. This year marks a significant milestone, celebrating four decades of community, conversation and tradition. The event will honor the pioneering women who have been instrumental in the founding, leadership and continuity of the Historic Society with a special ceremony at 5:30 p.m. Those being honored are: Beryl A. Banks, Gladys V. ...
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