The State Department of Environmental Conservation has extended the bay scallop season until April 30 to give baymen an opportunity to harvest scallops from waters they were unable to reach... more
There was quite the political explosion last week about the first-in-the-nation congestion pricing program that took effect in Manhattan last month, including comments from Suffolk County, although many miles away. The administration of President Donald Trump last week rescinded what had been federal approval of the program. U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy scored the plan’s fee for drivers entering Manhattan south of 60th Street, which includes $9 for operators of cars on weekdays from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m., $2.25 overnight, and higher for trucks. Duffy called that a “slap in the face to working-class Americans and small-business owners.” (It ...
by Karl Grossman
By Jan Kumar, Lynn Bakamjian, Karen Hardee, Sandra Jordan and Karen Newman Elon Musk is on a mission, with Donald Trump’s blessing, to destroy USAID. Though it is doubtful that either of them knows much about what USAID does or how it works, that doesn’t stop them from spreading baseless smears about the agency on their bully platforms to make Americans believe it is a corrupt waste of money. Suddenly cutting off funding for the organization is cruel and short-sighted. It shows indifference to the tragic human toll it will take and ignorance of what the U.S. stands to lose. ...
by Jan Kumar, Lynn Bakamjian, Karen Hardee, Sandra Jordan and Karen Newman
Janie Elizabeth Brumsey of Southampton died on February 22 in Southampton. She was 101. A viewing will be held on Monday, March 3, from 10-11 a.m., with a home-going service at 11 a.m. at the Community Baptist Church in Southampton. Interment to follow at Calverton National Cemetery. Arrangements entrusted to the Brockett Funeral Home in Southampton.
by Staff Writer
Irene G. Carter of Southampton died on February 23 at her home in Southampton. She was 96. A memorial visitation will be held at the O’Connell-Rothwell Funeral Home in Southampton at a future date to be announced. A full obituary will appear in a future edition.
by Staff Writer
Morning, past its twilight, the sun fills and warms the still air. In the ditch row, and protected places, the cardinal’s voice is up against many, while the wrens single themselves out and assert from three different locations. One is at the horse farm, one in the unpruned roses at Dr. Stock’s, and the last is near the woodpile in my mother’s backyard. Starlings command the slightly obnoxious high register; an obscure melody that some would contend is too sophisticated for the human ear exists between flocks. The sound is spring’s first mention of itself, and while it may be ...
by Marilee Foster
3 Photos
on Mar 31, 2015