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Assemblyman Fred Thiele Asks Voters To Support Water Quality Proposition on November Ballot

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At Saturday's meeting of the Wainscott Citizens Advisory Committee, Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. asked that voters support Proposition 2, the Suffolk County Water Quality Restoration Act. CHRISTOPHER WALSH

At Saturday's meeting of the Wainscott Citizens Advisory Committee, Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. asked that voters support Proposition 2, the Suffolk County Water Quality Restoration Act. CHRISTOPHER WALSH

Across the street from the Wainscott Chapel, where the hamlet's citizens advisory committee meets, is a 30-acre parcel that East Hampton Town plans to purchase in part for water quality protection and improvement, and, farther south, the severely degraded Wainscott Pond. CHRISTOPHER WALSH

Across the street from the Wainscott Chapel, where the hamlet's citizens advisory committee meets, is a 30-acre parcel that East Hampton Town plans to purchase in part for water quality protection and improvement, and, farther south, the severely degraded Wainscott Pond. CHRISTOPHER WALSH

Christopher Walsh on Oct 8, 2024
State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr., who will retire from government at year’s end and has assumed the role of executive director of the Friends of Georgica Pond Foundation, made... more

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