Ask an average 20-year-old to describe a senior citizen — someone in their 70s or 80s — and they’re likely to imagine someone slow-moving, isolated from society, complaining of aches... more
Dozens of Southampton Town’s civil service employees on Tuesday bombarded Supervisor Maria Moore, on the steps of Southampton Town Hall, with grievances about their pay and conflicts with town department heads, ahead of the first public hearing on Moore’s first town budget as supervisor. The supervisor’s budget gives nearly across the board raises to the town’s nonunion administrative staff, which Moore said is an effort to bring lagging town employees’ salaries up — a mission she pledged to continue to address when the town negotiates a new multi-year contract with the CSEA union employees in 2025. But the union workers ...
23 Oct 2024 by Michael Wright
South Fork voters will get to decide the outcome of three propositions this Election Day, November 5, including one that is statewide and one that is countywide. The third opportunity to weigh in will be different for Southampton Town and East Hampton Town voters, as hyperlocal measures are on the ballot in each town. Proposition 1, also known as the Equal Rights Amendment, is to amend the New York State Constitution to extend the guarantee of equal protection under the law to more groups. Currently, the State Constitution specifies that equal protection is afforded to people regardless of their race, ...
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