LaLota Votes for House SALT Deduction Increase; Senate Still To Weigh In
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1st District U.S. Representative Nick LaLota. RICHARD LEWIN
1st District U.S. Representative Nick LaLota. RICHARD LEWIN
Michael Wright on May 28, 2025
U.S. Representative Nick LaLota claimed victory in the approval of a Republican-authored federal spending plan adopted last week by the House of Representatives that would quadruple the so-called SALT deduction... more
Media personality Joy Ann Reid will be the guest speaker at the Bridgehampton Child Care & Recreational Center’s Thinking Forward Lecture Series focused on Equality Matters in the Hamptons. The talk, moderated by Ken Miller, will be held on Thursday, July 17, at 6:30 p.m. at Stony Brook Southampton’s Avram Theater. A VIP reception with Reid starts at 5 p.m. To purchase tickets, go to stonybrook.edu/reid. “We’ve been hosting our Thinking Forward Lecture talks annually with one goal in mind — creating space to learn from one another, to explore topics that aren’t always discussed in other forums, and to ...
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SAG HARBOR VILLAGE — Police were called to a Division Street parking lot outside of a store Saturday afternoon. The owner of the store had placed a boot on a vehicle parked in the lot because, the owner told police, the vehicle been parked there for over half an hour. The owner of the vehicle said he had gone into the store and done some business there, but then had gone to another store to get a bottle of water, returning to find his vehicle booted. Eventually, the owner of the vehicle agreed to pay $250 to have the boot ...
28 May 2025 by Staff Writer
It’s often easy to slip up and wish someone a “Happy Memorial Day” — it is, after all, the first long weekend of warm weather and a time for family and friends to get together. Beyond the time off, though, is the solemn reason for the holiday: As the Veterans of Foreign Wars put it just a few days ago, “Memorial Day is, at its core, a day of remembrance for those who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our nation.” It’s a celebration, but one that should be filled with gratitude. This year on the South Fork, there ...
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Some things are very much worth waiting for. It took a little longer than expected — though the scale of the project and the volatility of the times suggest that the earliest timetables were wildly optimistic — but the Stony Brook Southampton Hospital Emergency Department opened in East Hampton last week, just in time for the holiday weekend, typically a moment when emergency care becomes in even greater demand as the population swells and people get more active with warmer weather. The original plan was to have the facility open by late 2023. But the lingering impact of the pandemic ...
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Michael Wright on May 28, 2025