Southampton Schools Report Double-Digit Gains in Regents, State Test Scores
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Southampton High School. FILE PHOTO
Southampton High School. FILE PHOTO
Michelle Trauring on Sep 3, 2025
Following a dip below Suffolk County averages for Southampton School District students last year, the majority of 2024-25 Regents and state test scores have recently shown noteworthy gains in passing... more
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — Police responded to a Main Street jewelry store on September 1 after receiving a call saying that a man was holding a knife to the throat of another man at that address. When police arrived they found no such event taking place and later determined the call had been hoax intended to illicit an aggressive police response. Police said they are investigating to identify the caller. SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — Village Police charged a New York City woman with petit larceny, a misdemeanor, on August 21 following an August 16 report from an employee at a Main Street ...
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Pierson High School is putting forth its first varsity girls tennis team this season. After forgoing competition last year after East Hampton announced its decision to solely allow Bonacker players on its team, the Whalers will be back on the courts. “It is great to finally have a varsity program at Pierson,” head coach Keegan Blaney said. “Our seniors come with a lot of experience, and I will be leaning on them and the team captains for leadership.” Team captains will be seniors Ally Cottrell and Sam Robinson. Other seniors include Chloe Tanner and Ilana Lerner. Juniors Kiera Martin, Lia ...
by Desirée Keegan
There is a healthy debate surrounding The Express News Group’s annual list of “Water Hogs,” the somewhat inelegant moniker given to the South Fork’s biggest residential consumers of water. Is it an effort to shame the Suffolk County Water Authority’s “super users”? Or a reasonable effort to inform the authority’s other customers of the property owners who are doing far less to preserve water, especially at a moment when all 1.2 million customers are subject to a Stage 1 Water Alert calling for conservation? Either way, the focus should be on what needs to happen — and that is clearly ...
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In January, at an Express Sessions event, Kara Bak, who is the director of housing for Southampton Town, made clear the stakes when it comes to affordable housing: “Both East Hampton and Southampton have this crisis, and we are at a crisis level,” she said. “We have young people who are leaving the area, we have seniors who can’t afford to stay, we have this huge traffic problem because the people who work in our community can’t afford to live in it.” Advocates of more affordable housing in both towns said streamlining the process and maximizing the impact of each ...
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Michelle Trauring on Sep 3, 2025