Keeping Us Safe
I want to congratulate our new Southampton Village Ocean Rescue officers: Chief Alexandra King, 1st Assistant Chief Joshua Belury and 2nd Assistant Chief Vincent McGann. I also would like to note the significance of Chief King’s election as the first...
Jesse’s Lesson
I had turned off the television to get away from the constant fighting in Washington and decided to take my time with the digital edition of The Southampton Press. And guess what I got? Hot warfare on the Southampton Village...
The Long Run
As Mike Anthony demonstrates in his recent letter [“Focus on Climate,” Letters, January 19], the Express News Group does our community a great service with its close and continuing attention to climate change, a phenomenon the importance of which cannot...
Find Right Candidate
The following is my understanding of the timeline around nominating a candidate for Southampton Village provisional chief of police. At the December meeting, where the Southampton Village Board selected the candidate for chief of police, there was no information on...
Birds and Bees
Are you aware that neonicotinoids, or “neonics,” are dangerous neurotoxic pesticides linked to massive bee and insect losses throughout the world, which also affect our food supply, our water supply and our own health? In the United States, neonics have...
Tattered Trust
It is heartening to see The Press move from wish-filled hopes for workforce housing to a near indictment of “Liberty Gardens,” which was presented and promoted as local workforce housing and exposed by public scrutiny to be anything but [“Bait...
Biased Reporting
Your editorial [“Bait and Switch,” January 19] is replete with misinformation regarding Concern Housing’s proposed affordable housing development in Southampton. When a Southampton official asked us in 2017 to consider the site, I made it clear what Concern does and...
Traffic Solution
Traffic on the East End is an ongoing issue that is going to demand creative ideas to ease the throng of vehicles. The biggest problem is probably the morning/evening trade parade that clogs the entrance to the area. The obvious...
Traffic Impact
This is in reference to the article dated January 18 concerning the impact of East Hampton Airport closures on Montauk [“Airport Impact Analysis Should Put Magnifying Glass to Montauk, Residents Say,” 27east.com]. The middle of the article states: “After conducting...
Your Seat Awaits
It was Bay Street Theater’s hope that 2023 would see the launch of a campaign to support the generous development plans of “Friends of Bay Street,” which had acquired 22 Long Island Avenue in the heart of Sag Harbor’s business...