Rooted in the SoilFour decades ago, as John v.H. Halsey noted in an article last week, the idea of preserving land on the East End wasn’t new: Suffolk County and the towns had started to look at doing piecemeal projects where the municipalities...
Air PressureWhile a massive air cargo facility being proposed in Calverton may seem too many miles away for concern for most residents of the South Fork, the mammoth size of the project and its potential impact should send shock waves across...
Gold Stars and Dunce CapsGold Star: Several of them, in fact, after an agreement in Albany finally will put in place long-overdue protection for historic burial sites. It’s hard to imagine that unmarked graves — whether they hold the remains of early settlers, war...
A Very Local CrisisThe East Hampton Town Board and Planning Department are doing their best to make it easier for residents to construct affordable rental apartments throughout the town — and they deserve widespread support. New legislation, in the works for months now,...
A Big InvestmentMoney won’t fix everything. But when you’re looking at a multigenerational problem — decades of leaky septic systems and other polluting sources flooding our groundwater and threatening our drinking water supply — the more money put to the task, the...
Room To GrowSag Harbor School District is in fine financial shape. On Tuesday, district residents will vote on a $48.06 million budget for the 2023-24 school year — a spending plan that has one of the lowest tax levy increases in the...
Not So TemporaryGeoCubes have long overstayed their welcome in East Hampton Town. At waterfront properties in Amagansett and other communities, seawalls made up of the 1-ton sandbags were installed as so-called temporary measures to protect homes threatened by encroaching seas. But it...
Essential EmployeesWhile there are many things to argue about on the op-ed pages of this newspaper these days, it is easy to forget that we have much to celebrate on the South Fork — in particular, the number of residents who...
Staff Writer on Jan 19, 2022