Removing garbage cans from several East End towns? How short-sighted [“Outrage Spews on Southampton Officials Over Removal of Public Trash Cans From Downtowns,” 27east.com, September 17]. With an admitted operating budget of $12.58 million, surely the Highway Department can afford to continue to pick up the garbage.
There’s something else going on here. Why don’t they just split the costs between the state and the local towns to maintain the health of all residents and the beauty of our towns? Makes sense to me.
Bring back the garbage cans.
Flo Friedman
Water Mill
The cans were returned this week — Ed.
Doable ActionsThe following is a response to the heart-wrenching letter written by Sofia Altamirano [“What You Can’t See, Letters, September 18]. This is a truly frightening time in our country, and many of us, Latino or not, are filled with anxiety...
Extreme DisplayOn Sunday, Southampton Village deployed a multi-jurisdictional SWAT team on Main Street during a busy shopping day. Heavily armed officers displayed military-grade weapons, brought bomb-detection equipment and used dogs to sniff ordinary shoppers. This show of force disrupted businesses and...
Pay Fair ShareI am writing in response to the article about the removal of trash cans from downtowns [“Outrage Spews on Southampton Officials Over Removal of Public Trash Cans From Downtowns,” 27east.com, September 17]. I want to clarify the role of highway...
Get To Know MeI want to introduce myself to those in the hamlet of Hampton Bays who don’t know me. My name is Eileen McPhelin, and I am running for the position of president of the Hampton Bays Civic Association. As a member...
Sign Me UpAt the last Southampton Village Board meeting, Trustee Len Zinnanti, a former Rudy Giuliani employee and Mayor Bill Manger’s deputy mayor, told frustrated residents that “anyone who wants to be on the traffic committee can be on the traffic committee.”...
Stand Up and YellIf, perhaps, you are having a hard time dealing with the current ugly spectacle in D.C., then perhaps you might wish to distract yourself as I do — with Ken Burns’s documentaries about America. “The Civil War” is simply extraordinary....
Let's Make a Deal?As we approach Election Day, November 4, Southampton Town registered voters should feel confident that the only truly qualified person to vote for and to hold the position of Southampton Town clerk is Sundy Schermeyer, the current town clerk. Her...
Use the Zoning CodeWe can’t live with this traffic craziness forever. If you agree with the following solution or have another, you must contact this paper and the village trustees, politicians or anyone else that you think matters. The more people who respond,...
