Unique Law
I just attempted to order my high-strength reading glasses on Amazon, as I have done for over 15 years. I was surprised and angered when my order of five pairs of reading glasses, 6.0 strength, for $14.99 was rejected —...
Liberty Gardens Lies
I attended Ralph Fasano’s first meeting at Rogers Memorial Library when he proposed this housing. He did, in fact, state that this was affordable rentals for the working class. I questioned him at that time about the entrance/exit at the...
A Rare Kind of Store
I am an unusual woman, in that I am not much of a shopper, but I love clothes. Which is why finding Debbie Ohana and DeeJay’s decades ago was a game changer for me [“Boutique Clothing Store DeeJay’s Will Close...
Creative Solution
A group of environmentally aware Hamptonites are again making an effort to encourage the Parrish Art Museum to install solar panels on the museum’s iconic roof. Such an enormous institution uses an enormous amount of energy, I am sure. I’ve...
Bureaucratic Fog
Truth be told, these guys are shameless. Foremost, Ralph Fasano tantrumming about “deficient reporting and bias” [“Biased Reporting,” Letters, January 26]. In 2018, on the first leg of his development tour, he crowed that people were won over when they...
Trustee Nonsense
On Tuesday, January 24, I attended a Southampton Village Board meeting where the trustees again acted like peevish children, ruthlessly attacking the mayor when they should be working on the business issues of the village [“Acrimony Between Trustees and Warren...
Not a Landslide
Your recent article about the “heavy lifting” that will now have to be performed to get the Community Housing Fund up and running is of great interest [“Thiele Schools Towns, Stakeholders on Next Steps for Community Housing Fund,” 27east.com, January...
Legal Expenses
At the latest Southampton Village Board work session, we learned that we have nearly exhausted our budget for legal expenses for the current fiscal year, with more than four months left. Residents deserve an explanation and more transparency about what...
‘Donor’ Hamlet
Invitations to the Hampton Bays Civic Association meeting this week announce that the association has established several committees to discover the community’s need for action in areas such as sewers, density, code enforcement, downtown Hampton Bays rezoning and revitalization. I...
False Conclusion
My attention is normally more focused on national politics, but I find myself drawn into the local crusade to return our electrical utility back to home rule, so to speak [“Overwhelming Support To Make LIPA Public Entity at Southampton Hearing,”...