Gold Stars and Dunce CapsDunce Cap -- To Southampton Town officials for their on again/off again cone and flashing light program in Hampton Bays and other areas. The so-called traffic calming measures can’t possibly calm motorists who make good time one day, only to...
A Matter of FaithFor 50 years, Roe v. Wade was the law of the land and it assured women in the United States the right to choose whether or not to carry a pregnancy to term. But that precedent was overturned in June...
A Model for SuccessOnce environmental damage is done, it is exceedingly difficult to undo — but that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t try, or that our efforts won’t succeed beyond expectations. Case in point, the rebound of the hard clam population in Shinnecock...
Good Ground Can Be GreatIt was 100 years ago when the hamlet of Good Ground saw a name change to Hampton Bays, hoping to join the growing caché of neighborhoods to the east, a milestone celebrated over the weekend. (A century later, it seems...
A Will To PlayThere’s more at play than a simple change in demographics when it comes to the latest struggling East End football program, this time at Hampton Bays High School, which, for the first time in 47 years, will not field a...
Have It In WritingIt was a longtime South Fork resident, the late Joseph Heller, who said it best in his novel “Catch-22”: “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.” In Hampton Bays, as red-faced town officials scrambled to stamp out...
Keep On FightingDiscovery Land, the developers of the proposed 118-unit housing development and private golf course on Lewis Road in East Quogue, appears to have successfully played the long game, dumping money into the project and quietly waiting out the loud throngs...
Saying GoodbyeEvery death in a community impacts someone. Many bring grief from dozens, even hundreds of people whose lives overlapped with the deceased. And then there are the rare few who cause an entire community’s knees to buckle. Robert J. Long...
Staff Writer on Apr 28, 2022