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Southampton Town Board Votes To Establish Riverside Sewer District

Bel-Aire Cove Motel One Step Closer to Demolition

‘I Have Cancer, Cancer Doesn’t Have Me’: Anita Fuellbier Faces Stage IV Diagnosis With Strength, Determination

Tom Crowley of Hampton Bays Honored With Peace Pole at Good Ground Park

After 32 Years Living in and Running Montauk’s Parks, Tom Dess Retires

East Hampton Tells Food Shops To ‘Skip the Stuff’; Pickleball Moratorium Extended

Bus Loop Repairs, Tilework Happening at Springs School This Summer

Montauk Restaurant Remake in the Offing for Summer 2024

Drake Is Appointed Sag Harbor Police Chief

Plans for Lovelady Park Could Be Ready for North Haven Residents’ Review by Mid-Month

Roberts Will Challenge Fiore in North Haven Mayoral Race

Photographer’s Images Capture a Slice of Sag Harbor Life

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Terrible Optics

Westhampton Beach Village officials and Police Chief Steven McManus need a lesson in optics. The revelation last week that a body camera video recorded during...

A Costly Hire

Permitting public employees to collect a six-figure pension while simultaneously collecting a six-figure salary is one of the reasons why New York is such a...

Talk It Through

East Hampton Village Mayor Jerry Larsen pledges to keep an open mind and to tweak a proposal he unveiled last week to create a 10...

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With regard to the Bel-Aire Cove Motel, I would like to mention a few things that are either not fair or make no sense. Bel-Aire was bought about seven years ago. The supervisor at that time said, “Now that we own it, the building will come down and the property will be cleaned up.” What about the asbestos? Can’t it leach into the groundwater? Shouldn’t the new supervisor and board honor the previous supervisor’s statement? Southampton Town spent millions of...

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It might pay to review the resolution approving the 600-acre golf course resort in East Quogue (known as the Lewis Road PRD). The property was originally governed by a 5-acre zoning standard, which means the owner of the 600 acres, Discovery Land, had the right to build 118 houses. Those houses could have been clustered on smaller-than-5-acre lots. However, the 5-acre zoning standard would not have changed; i.e., the space that opened up as a result of clustering the housing...

Viva Las Vegas! Raiders Select Dylan Laube in Sixth Round of NFL Draft

A Modern-Day Rudy: Mickey Brown Walks On to the Fighting Irish Football Team

In an interview with The Express News Group’s Cailin Riley in 2019, Rudy Ruettiger, the ....

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Lieder Helps Team USA to Fifth-Place Finish at ISA World Longboard Championships

When Chase Lieder made the tough decision last year to skip both his East Hampton ...

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The Bridgehampton Half Marathon Folds Due to Rising Costs

The Bridgehampton Half Marathon saw its final race in 2023, race organizers Amanda Moszkowski and ...

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Review: ‘The Pillowman’ at LTV Delves Into the Darkest Corners of Humanity

An Exhibition Provides Food for Thought at Parrish Art Museum

The Parrish Art Museum’s current exhibition, “The Art of Food: From the Collections of Jordan D.…

A Champagne Luncheon To Celebrate ‘Judy Carmichael’s Jazz Inspired’

For more than two decades, Grammy-nominated jazz pianist and Sag Harbor resident Judy Carmichael has…

Book Review: Shelby Raebeck’s ‘East Hampton Blue’

“If life’s lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.”…