Police
A family that survived the Rwandan genocide of 1994 and escaped civil war in the Ivory Coast a decade later, before finally finding a permanent home in Bridgehampton in 2005, lost everything they owned when a fast-moving fire gutted their home on Saturday night. “We just felt exhausted,” said Thierry Balihuta, 35, who lived in the home with his mother, father and younger brother, and stood outside and watched as...
Editorials
Last week, the Sag Harbor School District announced that it would move forward with plans to purchase five parcels on Marsden Street on its own,...
Letters
Fake NarrativeOn the Marsden Street purchase: Plain and simple, since the wealthy second-home owner NIMBYs got involved in this process, the Southampton Town Board, and specifically Tommy John Schiavoni and Jay Schneiderman, have been negotiating in bad faith. There is ample evidence and correspondence to prove this. The latest example is of those officials making statements claiming that there is limited community support for this project, when the one legally implemented election passed by a significant majority. These types of statements...
Common GroundWe are polarized. We need to break this cycle. We are all part of this community, and we all have a personal relationship with it. The way we use the town and the land, the way we greet our neighbors and rally around town needs. Some of us are new to the area, and some have been here for generations. People come and go — much like the tides, we ebb, and we flow. Without ebbs and flows there is...
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