My wife and I and our whole neighborhood would like to publicly thank our local firefighters for the swift response on Sunday morning, February 2, at about 3 a.m. There was an unattended propane heater that went on at that time, making the house under construction look like it was glowing with fire.
Big thanks to them.
Terry Sullivan
Sag Harbor
On Long Island in the 1950s, our large family had one car and went to Jones Beach every summer. My father, aunt and three uncles served in the war, and families with lost sons lived among us. We knew the...
In response to the letter written by George Lynch, “A Gratuitous Swipe” [Letters, April 25], where Mr. Lynch accuses me of being irrational, misleading, and calling my points “unsupported allegations,” I feel compelled to defend my positions. In my letter,...
As a longtime opponent of the wind turbine project offshore of Montauk, I appreciated the letter from R. George Arnold on April 4 [“Scary Things”]. I’m happy to join his “merry little band of citizens with common sense.” Building a...
While we count down to the August end of the battery energy storage system moratorium in Southampton Town, a new BESS debating season kicked off on Earth Day with the initial meeting of the town’s newly appointed BESS Steering Committee....
If the success of a mayor’s term were judged by turnover in key positions, ousted Southampton Village Mayor Jesse Warren would have a statue outside Village Hall. Of course, excessive turnover is neither a sign of success nor civic health...
I owe a debt of gratitude to Ray D’Angelo, the president of the Hampton Bays Civic Association, for his recent letter [“Advocate & Adjudicate?” Letters, April 25] establishing that he has, as I pointed out almost a month ago, “a...
I am profoundly disappointed in the news that Fred Thiele, the retiring state assemblyman, has dipped into the Community Preservation Fund for $2 million to rehabilitate the condemned windmill at the former Southampton College [“State Budget Authorizes Southampton Town To...
Last Friday afternoon, I was walking on Hill Street with my dog, Jada, when I tripped and had a bad fall. Two ladies saw my fall, stopped their car, helped me up, ushered Jada and me into their car, and...
I’ve been pondering how to live with both the geopoltical reality of the conflict in Israel over the war to exterminate a virulent terrorist organization, Hamas, and the upwelling of campus unrest in New York City and the nation at...
Another homicide at another Concern for Independent Living “supportive housing” complex, this time in Brooklyn, happened in February: One Concern resident murdered another. A previous crime in Melville involved police officers on call being stabbed and killing the knife-wielder. Yet,...
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