Southampton Village Board, Residents Discuss Traffic Once Again
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Southampton Village Hall. File Photo
Southampton Village Hall. File Photo
Cailin Riley on Jul 16, 2025
It’s mid-July, and that means the issue that’s top of mind for almost every resident of Southampton Village right now is traffic. It was not surprisingly the big topic of... more
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — A New Jersey man was charged with assault following a road rage incident on June 30 following a motor vehicle accident on Hill Street. Police arrived at the scene and determined that Kevin E. Guevara-Martinez, 26, of New Jersey was fighting with a 43-year-old Hampton Bays man. Both men were arrested. Guevara-Martinez was charged with assault in the third degree, a misdemeanor. The Hampton Bays man had to be taken to the hospital for treatment of injuries and was charged there with harassment in the second degree, a violation. SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — A Southampton man, Dashawn Barner, ...
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The Southampton Town Board last week hurriedly adopted a change of zone affecting properties along Montauk Highway, or Main Street, bordering downtown Hampton Bays. The lawmakers said it was an effort to protect the hamlet from large commercial developments in the corridor. The move also effectively extinguished a proposal by Mottz Green Grocer to build a cannabis dispensary in the former North Fork Bank building next to the Carvel store in the corridor. The lawmakers say blocking the pot shop was an unintended — but welcome — consequence of the zone change. The business owners have cried foul. And hamlet ...
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Elaine M. Sylvester of Southampton died on July 12 in Southampton. She was 92. A viewing will take place on Saturday, July 19, from 10-11 a.m., with a home-going service at 11 a.m. at Galilee Church of God In Christ in Riverhead. Interment to follow at Southampton Cemetery. Arrangements by the Brockett Funeral Home.
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The iconic “Jaws” poster by artist Roger Kastel was not based on a great white shark, but rather a shortfin mako head that Kastel studied at the American Museum of Natural History, where the specimen remains today. Looking back on the artistic choice 50 years after the film first thrashed into theaters, it’s hard to second-guess it. The image is chilling, menacing and easily the most instantly recognizable film poster in cinema history. But the poster, depicting a larger-than-life shark lunging upward, toothy mouth open, toward a woman doing the freestyle stroke, is also one of the ways that “Jaws” ...
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Cailin Riley on Jul 16, 2025