The PEM project has been deemed a “success.” I still wish they would have done quarterly reports, as I requested at the meeting years ago. This is only to know how storms changed the course of the sand. Sand is “ever moving,” after all. Short-term success will need to be correlated with long-term gains. Future findings await. Science.
As we begin the school year, let us not forget: Quoting the Special Kids Advocates Agency, “It’s amazing the lengths school districts will go to brainwash a community into silence.”
Still here.
Joe Karpinski
Amagansett
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