Van Scoyoc Joins Vilar in East Hampton Town Supervisor Race
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Republican East Hampton Town Supervisor candidate Manny Vilar. 2017 file photo
Republican East Hampton Town Supervisor candidate Manny Vilar. 2017 file photo
gavinmenu on Apr 5, 2017
[caption id="attachment_62664" align="alignnone" width="624"] Peter Van Scoyoc[/caption] By Kathryn G. Menu East Hampton Town Councilman Peter Van Scoyoc officially threw his hat into the town supervisor’s race on Monday, announcing... more
Suffolk County in recent years has been the only region in the state to increase its number of farms and add farmland, according to a report titled “A Profile of Agriculture in New York State,” by the office of the state’s comptroller, Thomas P. DiNapoli. The report includes data from 2017 to 2022, a period in which the state lost 8 percent of its farms, while Suffolk County added 18 farms, a jump of 3 percent. The number of farms in Suffolk in 2022 totaled 578, it says; the amount of farmland, 33,821 acres. The Suffolk figures are in the ...
by Karl Grossman
The starlings begin stuffing grass and garbage in the overhead track of the barn door. These are not permanent nests: They fall every time we need a tractor and the doors get pushed open. The birds, if they are home, fly out. Do they count their tragedy in homeownership? Or does this merely occupy and entertain them, practice on a winter’s day, cozy on the coldest nights. Of which we’ve had at least a few. Farther from the farm, the geese are destroying a rye field. You can only spend so much time hunting them, you can only spend so ...
by Marilee Foster
Many people see in the raging Los Angeles a harbinger of the future. Those seeking a metaphor for our past and present can look at a small town in Pennsylvania. In May 1962, the Centralia Town Council met to discuss how the town would go about cleaning up the local landfill. The 300-foot-wide, 75-foot-long pit was made up of a 50-foot-deep strip mine that had been cleared in 1935. A state inspector had become concerned about the pit when he noticed holes in the walls and floor, as such mines often cut through older mines underneath. The town arranged for ...
13 Jan 2025 by Tom Clavin
College News Lire Coulter, of Sag Harbor, was named to the dean’s list at the University of Connecticut for the fall 2024 semester. Kayla Stallings, of Sag Harbor, has been named to the dean’s list at Slippery Rock University for the fall 2024 semester. Emily Kennedy, of East Hampton, was named to the dean’s list at Bates College for the fall semester ending in December 2024. Kennedy is majoring in physics and minoring in mathematics.
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gavinmenu on Apr 5, 2017