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UPDATE: Town Deems ‘The Hills’ Environmental Impact Statement Complete

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Carolyn Zenk

an environmental attorney from Hampton Bays and a former Town Board member

UPDATE: Tuesday, 2:30 p.m. The Southampton Town Board deemed the Draft Environmental Impact Statement, or DEIS, for The Hills complete during Tuesday’s meeting. Mark Hissey, vice president of Discovery Land... more

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Community News, April 2

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At sundown, a line of nine lanky great blue herons sifts up Sagg Pond. They fly slowly. They are low but not quite ready to land as they ease past. Pterodactyls, marionette-like, the line hooks left, toward white walls and the mouth of the swamp. As night falls and the spring peepers begin to chant, the peacefulness of our immediate surroundings tries to take hold. But from house to house already comes the shared light, the blue flicker of a television screen. Everybody, stay inside. It used to be dark in Sagaponack. But houses, even when empty, threaten to emit ... 31 Mar 2020 by Staff Writer

Beyond F2F

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This Is Sagaponack

The first tomatoes germinate. Unlike lettuce, or even onions, this little green shoot, wiring up from the shallow flat of potting soil, makes me take a deep, meditative breath. Of all the things we raise, the tomato seems like the one with the most variables and expectations. The one most desired and adored, the one that takes so much attention and so much time. “Maybe,” I think, as I gently flick the stem with my index finger and watch it barely wobble, “it will be a perfect year.” Rain is hammering the greenhouse. Wind compresses the air that inflates the ... 24 Mar 2020 by Staff Writer

Hitting Pause

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Global Calamity

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When the news came down from the publisher that weekly columns such as mine would be temporarily suspended due to impending doom and economic shortfall, I asked if I could write for free — and my suggestion was not rejected. I have written here for about 25 years, and now seemed like a bad time to stop. I joked that if I wrote for the money, I would have never started. It is not charity; it is opportunity. By design farmers are preppers. We need things before we need them — it’s part of our annual budget and the reason ... 17 Mar 2020 by Staff Writer

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