Southampton Town Justice Barbara Wilson Ordered To Pay $250k To Neighbor
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Barbara Wilson
Barbara Wilson
on Oct 30, 2019
Barbara Wilson, a Southampton Town and Southampton Village justice, was ordered on Friday to pay her neighbor $250,000 after a State Supreme Court jury found her guilty of defamation of... more
The vine wraps its way directly up the deer fence. The flower is fragrant, a cluster of blossoms, a voluptuous spiral, cone-shaped, lupine-like. Apios Americana, the ground nut known locally in precolonial times as Sagaponack. The leaf is edible, the flower will mature into pea-like pods, and below the ground grow hard, dense, edible tubers. We stop and look at the native legume for a while. We take turns sniffing — it is sweet and soft, but still pungent and pure. The settlers, didn’t change the name of this place. They saw that the ground nuts were both big and ...
by Marilee Foster
The beach parking lot looks like plover flight school. The tiny birds, chattering enthusiastically, look like oversized butterflies fluttering their wings, flying just inches above the ground. Last year, I observed them in a more advanced stage, when they were starting to fly in formation. I took note of a few slow students and definitely an unruly one. Looking back over my years as a middle school teacher, other than a few exceptional students, the ones I remember best were the “bad kids.” Since I taught remedial reading as well as English, I generally had the difficult students. For the ...
by Denise Gray Meehan
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on Oct 30, 2019