Local Police on Immigration Crackdown: No Significant Change in Policies Expected
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Southampton Town Police Chief James Kiernan. DANA SHAW
Southampton Town Police Chief James Kiernan. DANA SHAW
Stephen J. Kotz on Jan 17, 2025
In the days before a new presidential administration is expected to make detention and deportation of immigrants who are illegally in the United States a focus of its agenda, police... more
At the end of the first week of Southampton Town’s experiment with bypassing the traffic signals along County Road 39 west of Southampton Village, Southampton Town Highway Superintendent Charles McArdle said that the concept helped to lessen delays along the notoriously clogged roadway and moved many more cars per hour through the corridor. The number of cars on County Road 39 west of North Sea Road had increased by nearly 50 percent per hour by the fourth day of last week’s test run of eliminating red-green light cycles, and the number that flowed up from Sandy Hollow Road doubled, according ...
27 Apr 2025 by Michael Wright
A Sag Harbor woman was defrauded out of more than $200,000 since the summer, when a fraudster first reached out to her via social media. The victim reported to Sag Harbor Village Police last Thursday afternoon that a man she knew only as David had begun communicating with her through Instagram. He encouraged her to invest money online through Coinbase and Cash App, telling her the cash would then be converted to cryptocurrency. Over several months she did so, transferring $170,500 from her checking account into Coinbase. The money would then be used to buy bitcoin, the profits from which ...
5 Feb 2025 by Staff Writer
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Stephen J. Kotz on Jan 17, 2025