The Southampton Board of Education on Tuesday night unanimously voted to fire a part-time security guard who is being held in Connecticut after boarding the Cross Sound Ferry with a... more
Hampton Bays voters turned out in large numbers and voted to approve the Hampton Bays Public Library budget by a wide margin on Tuesday. Nearly 500 residents cast votes in the election at the library on Tuesday, three times more than voted on last year’s budget, and the vast majority of them threw their support behind the library. The budget was approved with 411 “yes” votes to just 87 “no” votes. “The Board of Trustees appreciate how the community pulled together to ensure that the budget passed,” library Executive Director Stephanie McEvoy said on Thursday. “Much gratitude goes out to ...
by Michael Wright
For the League of Women Voters, controversy is anathema. It’s an avowedly nonpartisan organization that takes great pains not to take sides in the political world, even as it helps provide lots of information to voters, and to encourage “everyone to fully participate in our democracy,” as its website outlines its mission. Even in this time of mudslinging, there’s no way anyone can besmirch the objective bona fides of the League. Which makes this week’s “Viewpoint,” from Judi Roth of Southampton, all the more startling, and impactful. Roth chairs the Unite & Rise Committee for the League of Women Voters ...
by Editorial Board
There’s just something special about the junior lifeguard programs in both East Hampton and Southampton towns. The two towns have lifeguard programs that involve friendly competition but a lot more cooperation, and that’s also true of the junior lifeguard programs, which have had the spotlight in recent weeks. The two towns come together in the Hampton Lifeguard Association to send a team of both adults and youths to Huntington Beach, California, for the United States Lifesaving Association’s National Lifeguard Championship. That was held last week — and the U19 lifeguards crushed it, despite 10-foot waves at times, and were the ...
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Erin McKinley on Jun 18, 2014