State Will Fund Long-Planned Lighthouse Erosion Protection Improvements
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on Apr 24, 2018
New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s office announced on Tuesday that the state will direct $24 million to a long-planned project to bolster the protective revetment at the base of... more
Behind tall hedges, shining through a break in the wall, properties are forced to share their magnolias. Those planted publicly bask in their own generous glow. Nothing compares. Both gaudy and beguiling, the showy tree brings joy into a cold and cloudy day — the April norm in Sagaponack. Our spring, in the Land of the Large Ground Nut, is, sometimes for days on end, a steady night of fog. It’s generally safe to plant potatoes when the first of the magnolia bloom, but with far fewer acres to plant and the weather not really sorted out, why push it? ...
8 Apr 2025 by Marilee Foster
I never thought I would see this story, and as a nine-page article no less, in the current April issue of the esteemed and influential magazine Scientific American. “A Softer Corps” is the headline. The subhead: “The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has uncharacteristically been working with nature instead of bulldozing it into submission. Will this enlightened approach prevail?” So the piece would not be missed, it is flagged on the cover of Scientific American with: “Reinventing the Army Corps of Engineers.” When I began as a journalist based in Suffolk County in 1962, the Army Corps was promoting a ...
by Karl Grossman
The Southampton Press recently reported that employee files were left unsecured at the Village Department of Public Works barn, a serious lapse that village employees say included private and HIPAA-protected health information and resident files [“Southampton Village Union Alleges Mishandling of Sensitive Employee Records,” 27east.com, April 2]. While disturbing, this news should not come as a surprise. During my tenure, I repeatedly sounded the alarm about incompetent and ineffectual management at the top of the Public Works Department. Today, the department is led by a superintendent hand-picked by Bill Manger, a person whose compensation package totals $227,463. With that level ...
by Staff Writer
Last week’s article outlining the delays associated with the Shinnecock Nation gas station is disturbing [“Shinnecock Say Town Reviving Abandoned Deal to Derail Tribal Land Purchase,” 27east.com, April 6]. How much more can we do to these people? This is their land. Long before any of us got here. They have lost the land, had it stolen from them or manipulated from them for centuries. The government took their land and then named it the Shinnecock Canal, almost to torment them. The U.S. government has stated that the Shinnecock Nation is a free and independent nation, almost like another state ...
by Staff Writer
As a public librarian for more than 45 years, I have struggled with wringing sufficient funds from my municipality, along with a pitiful pro-rated stipend from my province, to keep my small-town library operational. Not once throughout my career did we ever get a penny of support from our federal government [“Institutions React to Federal Cuts to Institute of Museum and Library Services,” 27east.com, April 3]. After I retired, I do believe some of my staff, working in collaboration with librarians across Canada, may have been given stipends to further develop the groundbreaking and inexpensive software they created, enabling them ...
by Staff Writer
Something must come to fruition in Southampton Town Hall. At numerous meetings over months and months, and years, the same stuff is discussed over and over, but there is never a conclusion. Something should be finalized. The first time I heard about a sewage treatment plant coming to Flanders was in 1966. That’s 59 years ago. There’s still no plant. Bel-Aire Cove property: Thanks to the town for removing the motel, but now it’s a vacant piece of property with a fence around, making it look like a Superfund site. It was supposed to become a park. Why is the ...
by Staff Writer
I’m Route 27 east-west from the end of Southampton Village all the way to Montauk. I was built about 100 years ago. I used to run through broad stretches of verdant farm fields all the way to Wainscott and eastward through quaint New England-style hamlets. The insatiable lust for land to develop has pretty much wiped that out over the past 40 to 50 years — and with that my tale of woe starts. When I was built back in the 1920s, I was state-of-the-art. The communities I served all the way to Montauk were sleepy little country villages. By ...
by Staff Writer
The March 20 Southampton Press front-page story, “Riverside Sewer Project Is Among Local Work Impacted by Federal Cuts,” is instructive. Reporter Michael Wright informs readers that it was “mostly Republican-led spending cuts.” The vote to pass the 2025 Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, which was the legislative vehicle to cut money from the Riverside and other important East End projects, was approved in the House of Representatives by a vote of 217-213. All but one of the Republicans voted to cut community project funding. All but one of the Democrats voted to keep and continue funding. Our congressman, Nick LaLota, ...
by Staff Writer
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on Apr 24, 2018