Southampton Village Passes More Stringent Leaf Blower Law
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Christian Picot, who headed the leafblower task force, speaks at last week's meeting. CAILIN RILEY
Christian Picot, who headed the leafblower task force, speaks at last week's meeting. CAILIN RILEY
Cailin Riley on May 18, 2022
The Southampton Village Board last week unanimously approved a resolution to further regulate the use of gas-powered leaf blowers within the village, and set a target date for phasing out... more
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — A Village Police officer spotted a commercial pickup truck traveling on North Sea Road with flames leaping up out of the rear of the vehicle on May 7. The officer stopped the truck, whose driver had not noticed the flames, and extinguished the fire before it caused serious damage to the vehicle. SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — A caller told Southampton Village Police that they had seen a suspicious person “hiding in the bushes” outside a Windmill Lane bank on May 7. An officer responded to the scene and reported back that there was an employee washing the building’s ...
14 May 2025 by Staff Writer
When the Community Preservation Fund gets its well-earned accolades for the good it has done for the East End in the past quarter century, the focus often is on the preservation of land, keeping it from being developed and thus protecting the region from becoming too intensely suburban. Without question, that effort to maintain the region’s rural appeal is a significant, historic accomplishment. But sometimes we forget the importance of the CPF in keeping agriculture alive as a major contributor to the region’s agroeconomy, which has quality-of-life benefits of its own for both farmers and those who live among their ...
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The East Quogue School District will ask voters to approve the district’s proposed $32.3 million budget for the 2025-26 school year, which hikes spending by more than 5 percent but does not pierce the state tax cap. The proposed budget is a $1,578,988 increase in spending over the current school year’s budget, driven mostly by contractual salary hikes for staff and increasing costs of health insurance, rising tuition costs for students who attend the Westhampton Beach School District’s middle school and high school, and expanding the English language arts and science curriculum, according to the district’s budget documents. The district’s ...
by Staff Writer
The Quogue School District has proposed a 2025-26 operating budget of just under $10.1 million that includes a 4.5 percent increase in spending and a 3.29 percent increase in the tax levy but remains within the state-mandated tax cap. The growth in spending is driven primarily by increases in the cost of health insurance premiums, busing costs and tuition for students who have graduated from the Quogue School and moved up to the Westhampton Beach School District’s middle school and high school. To cover the nearly $1 million in additional spending over the amount that the state tax cap would ...
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Cailin Riley on May 18, 2022