Elizabeth E. Vail Joins Board of East Hampton-based i-tri
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Elizabeth Vail
Elizabeth Vail
Staff Writer on Dec 13, 2019
Farrell Fritz has announced that Elizabeth E. Vail has joined the board of East Hampton-based i-tri. Ms. Vail practices land use, municipal and environmental law in the firm’s Water Mill... more
This November, I will be voting for only one candidate for Southampton Town Council: Tom Neely. Here’s why. I am exhausted by the gamesmanship of governance. I want a Town Council that is populated by well-informed, experienced and hardworking public servants who share the goal of moving the town forward on road quality, traffic congestion, clean air and water, and affordable housing. I am tired of the hostility, the division, the constant finger-pointing and name-calling that dominates our political climate. I’m tired of leaders at every level treating each other as enemies instead of colleagues with different perspectives. I’m tired ...
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By all measures, “Soldier Ride — The Hamptons 2025” was a great success. This year marked the 21st anniversary of Soldier Ride, an event that had its origins locally at the Stephen Talkhouse. In the 21 years since it began, Soldier Ride has transformed the way our injured veterans recover through the shared bonds of physical activity and engaging with our communities. Indeed, the community did come out in support: Close to 200 people joined the veterans on the 25-mile ride from Amagansett to Sag Harbor and back. Almost $50,000 was raised for programs that help veterans adjust to both ...
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What do they teach in school these days, I wonder? Having a true liberal (broad-based) arts education, I was exposed to the ancient Greek mythology and philosophy. For a fun twist, I have a beautiful old copy of an interpretation of these myths illustrated by Maxwell Parrish, created for children. Sigh. The things we once taught. We, especially the MAGA crowd, perhaps never encountered these ideas. If they did, they did not much understand them. The sign around the corner from me says, “America is back.” I disagree. First of all, this is just the United States. Second, the notion ...
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Will this be the summer that the Hamptons finally loses its mind? Just about everyone I talk to says the same thing: “I’ve never seen it like this.” They could be commenting on the sweltering heat, the restaurant prices or the lack of parking. But everyone seems to agree one thing: the massive amount of vehicular traffic. It’s become impossible to go anywhere without some sort of delay. There’s been lots of attention devoted to the trade parade and how it impacts the village. Unfortunately, the sizable morning and afternoon runoff from the parade impacts residential side streets all over ...
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The Hampton Bays Public Library Board of Trustees would like to thank everyone for coming out and showing your enthusiastic support for the library last Wednesday. The vote tally of 411 yes and 87 no is a clear indication that our budget was important to you — no prior budget vote has received such a turnout. We are grateful to see a margin of over 4-to-1 in favorable support of the library. And we are respectful of those who objected to this budget, we are mindful of your concerns. We adhere to our duty of responsible management and thought toward ...
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Southampton Town leadership once again fumbles and stumbles its way into litigation against the Shinnecock Indian Nation, this time using the U.S. Department of Interior as a proxy. As stated in Michael Wright’s August 14 article [“Southampton Town Takes Department of Interior to Court Over Status of Tribal Land in Hampton Bays,” 27east.com]: “Westwoods is a separate parcel acquired by the nation some 200 years after the nation’s aboriginal title was extinguished by a series of conveyances recognized and ratified by the prevailing sovereign authority before the United States even existed.” The problem with this statement is that it is ...
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I worked in Upper Manhattan and lived in Yonkers during a subway strike. My company, and others like it, put up bulletin boards where people wrote where they lived, what time they had to get in to work, and when they normally left. This effort was very successful and led to many carpools enabling people to get to work and reduced the car traffic going into Manhattan. Bulletin boards are a thing of the past, but I’m sure someone can develop an app that would link people from the western part of the East End who work in the eastern ...
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By Nancy Hamma My grandfather built a three-room bungalow in Mastic Beach in the 1930s. He never knew all the joy it would bring me. When she was young, my mom would go out there with him from Brooklyn for a day here and there. But with only an outdoor pump for water and an outhouse filled with spiders, there was not much of an attraction, except maybe to get away from the city heat. In time to come, a bathroom and kitchen were added, but very rudimentary. We still pumped water from the outdoor pump and had an outdoor ...
by Nancy Hamma
Midweek last week, I stood on Armande Street between Halsey Street and Moses Lane in Southampton Village at about 5:30 p.m. and counted cars. Of the first 20 cars that passed me, 17 were driver-only cars, and the other three had just one passenger. Clearly, ride-sharing is absolutely essential. The only question is how Southampton Town is going to provide safe parking and ride-sharing opportunities for those who need to travel through our town. Paula Angelone Southampton
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Staff Writer on Dec 13, 2019