I am supporting our dream team of Mayor Bill Manger, Trustee Roy Stevenson and Trustee Robin Brown. I am grateful for all of their hard work on our behalf, and I hope they will be able to continue the progress that they have initiated.
I was pleased to see on my 2025 village tax bill that my taxes were only increased by 2 cents this year. Well done and thanks to our mayor and trustees for doing so much and yet not hitting us with more increases.
We are all very fortunate to live in such a wonderful place, and I do not recall Southampton Village ever having been in a better position in the many years that I have been blessed to call this place home.
Our North Sea Road gateway is now worthy of our historic village, with new lights and trees and flags and flowers. We have a new roof on the Southampton Arts Center, which is thriving, as are our shopping areas, with new stores and restaurants and plantings in every direction.
Beautiful Coopers Beach is back to the No. 1 position in the whole country, and every one of our beach parking lots have new signage, bike racks and trash cans. We have beach drone patrols, and a new 4x4 beach patrol vehicle.
Two of our playgrounds, on the east and west sides of the village, have been renovated. We are finally making progress cleaning up our water bodies. Over 400 trees have been planted over the past two years.
Our police are doing an amazing job, led by the incredible Chief Suzanne Hurteau, and they have new electric bikes to patrol our residential streets. Our officers are also now ticketing right turns onto Hill Street in the afternoons, which has been a successful experiment, albeit just a start. The fire department has a new truck, and the volunteer ambulance has a new ambulance. We have new PBA and dispatcher contracts.
Our green initiative has made us closer to carbon neutral. The Southampton History Museum has been restored … and the list goes on — which is why I am voting for Mayor Bill Manger and Trustee Roy Stevenson and Trustee Robin Brown on June 20 at the Southampton Cultural Center on Pond Lane.
Walter L. Deane
Southampton Village
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