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Testing Traffic Fixes on CR 39 — What’s Changing and What Comes Next | 27speaks

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Highway Superintendent Charlie McArdle.

In a few weeks, the Suffolk County Department of Public Works will institute changes in traffic patterns on County Road 39 between North Sea Road and Magee Street in Southampton to test a pared-down version of an experiment run by the county and Southampton Town last spring. Local officials said the plan, as envisioned by Charles McArdle, Southampton Town superintendent of highways, brought marked improvement in travel times for afternoon commuters and eased bypass traffic on residential back roads.

27Speaks · Testing Traffic Fixes on CR 39 — What’s Changing and What Comes Next | 27speaks

This week, the editors are joined by senior reporter Michael Wright and McArdle to talk about how the new plan will work and some of the Southampton road challenges that remain.

Commodity, Not Community

Last week’s Express Sessions event in Southampton Village, part of a five-part series called “Local Matters” — upcoming events will turn to Sag Harbor, East Hampton, Hampton Bays and Westhampton Beach — was largely dominated by a trio of interconnected issues: traffic, most significantly, but also affordable housing and the need for septic solutions. As it turns out, the three are so intertwined that you simply can’t discuss them individually, and no “solution” will slay this three-headed dragon alone. Still, there was a great deal to take away from this first conversation, and it impacts the entire South Fork, because ... 15 Oct 2025 by Editorial Board

A Day To Share

The three-day weekend just past is generally known as Columbus Day weekend, but in recent years the holiday has an alternate identity, Indigenous Peoples’ Day. More than four decades after the idea was first suggested in 1977 at a United Nations conference, former President Joe Biden issued a proclamation in 2021, making it a federal holiday alongside Columbus Day. President Donald Trump countered that proclamation with one of his own last week, restoring Columbus Day as the lone federal holiday, bringing it “back from the ashes,” in his estimation. This matters only symbolically, except for the federal holiday designation — ... by Editorial Board

Daniel Conkright of Sag Harbor Dies October 7

Daniel Conkright of Sag Harbor died on October 7. He was 39. Visiting hours will be at Yardley & Pino Funeral Home in Sag Harbor on Saturday, October 18, from 2-5 p.m. and Sunday, October 19, from 2-5 p.m. A graveside service will be held on Monday, October 20, at 11 a.m. at St. Andrews Cemetery in Sag Harbor. by Staff Writer

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