Former deputy mayor tired of anti-Semitism, leaving Westhampton Beach
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on Aug 11, 2008
Former Westhampton Beach Deputy Mayor Tim Laube, who lost his bid for mayor in June, said this week that he is moving out of the village he grew up in... more
Julio Chitaynij, 36, of Westhampton Beach was arrested by Westhampton Beach Village Police on September 1 at 1:04 a.m. near 112 Montauk Highway in Westhampton Beach and was charged with DWI, a misdemeanor. Chitaynij was observed traveling east on Montauk Highway and failing to maintain his lane and also failing to use a turn signal, according to police. Police said he was pulled over and an investigation revealed he was intoxicated. Chitaynij said he drank six beers before driving, and a breath test revealed a blood alcohol content reading of .22, police said. He spent the night at the Southampton ...
by Staff Writer
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — The owner of a Range Rover that was stolen from the driveway of a Little Plains Road home, overnight between August 25 and August 26 — one of three vehicles stolen that evening — told Village Police that when he discovered the vehicle missing he tracked an Apple AirTag that was in the vehicle to Old Town Crossing, where he found it parked and locked. Using the Range Rover app to unlock the vehicle he was able to recover the vehicle but the key fob, which had been inside the unlocked car when it was parked at ...
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Sometimes, when you see a storm coming, there’s time to prepare and to take action to limit its damage. In Hampton Bays, what’s brewing has the potential to do a great deal of damage — and there’s still time for cooler heads to prevail and limit the intensity. The Shinnecock Nation’s plan to build a gas station on a segment of the nation’s Westwoods property off Sunrise Highway isn’t new. Neither is a more ambitious plan for a resort hotel on the bluff of Westwoods overlooking Peconic Bay. Tribal leadership has spoken openly about both projects for years, though until ...
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The house fire in August 2022 that killed two young women in Noyac is a terrible tragedy for everyone involved — there’s no ignoring that, along with the lives lost, so many lives were forever changed that awful night. If there is anything to take away from the tragedy, it is the lesson that while code enforcement is often derided as “Big Government” overreaching, and mandatory inspections and permits are considered mere bureaucratic harassment, those rules and that oversight save lives. Every single year. Uncounted lives, because they were protected by safe environments. Absolutely nobody would ever want to be ...
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