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Outrage Spews on Southampton Officials Over Removal of Public Trash Cans From Downtowns

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Bridgehampton business owners and residents gathered at the Candy Kitchen on Tuesday morning to discuss what can be done about the town having removed the trash cans from the hamlet's downtown. MICHAEL WRIGHT
The concrete pads where garbage cans used to sit in downtown Hampton Bays and Bridgehampton are now vacant, but still seen as a good place to drop refuse by some. MICHAEL WRIGHT
Bridgehampton business owners and residents gathered at the Candy Kitchen on Tuesday morning to discuss what can be done about the town having removed the trash cans from the hamlet's downtown. MICHAEL WRIGHT
Bridgehampton business owners and residents gathered at the Candy Kitchen on Tuesday morning to discuss what can be done about the town having removed the trash cans from the hamlet's downtown. New York State Assemblyman Tommy John Schiavoni said that state law requires that the town maintain the right-of-way on state roads, but that it is up to the Southampton Town Board to decide what that maintenance entails. MICHAEL WRIGHT
Trash cans are conspicuously missing from Main Street in Hampton Bays. DANA SHAW
Trash cans are conspicuously missing from Main Street in Hampton Bays. DANA SHAW

Bridgehampton business owners and residents gathered at the Candy Kitchen on Tuesday morning to discuss what can be done about the town having removed the trash cans from the hamlet's downtown. MICHAEL WRIGHT

The concrete pads where garbage cans used to sit in downtown Hampton Bays and Bridgehampton are now vacant, but still seen as a good place to drop refuse by some. MICHAEL WRIGHT

Bridgehampton business owners and residents gathered at the Candy Kitchen on Tuesday morning to discuss what can be done about the town having removed the trash cans from the hamlet's downtown. New York State Assemblyman Tommy John Schiavoni said that state law requires that the town maintain the right-of-way on state roads, but that it is up to the Southampton Town Board to decide what that maintenance entails. MICHAEL WRIGHT

Trash cans are conspicuously missing from Main Street in Hampton Bays. DANA SHAW

Residents and business owners from hamlets whose downtowns lie along Montauk Highway exploded in outrage this past week at Southampton Town Highway Superintendent Charles McArdle and members of the Southampton... more

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