A new president, vice president and board member were all sworn in at Tuesday night’s Hampton Bays Board of Education meeting, held at the middle school. The board voted in... more
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — A woman called Village Police on January 30 to report that someone had called her demanding money and threatening to harm her mother if she did not pay. The woman called her mother, who lives in New Jersey, who told her that she was fine and had not been threatened by anyone. Police advised her that the call was a scam and that she should not send any money. SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — A Village Police officer pulled over a vehicle on East Gate Road and Hill Street on January 30 because the vehicle’s license plates matched that ...
5 Feb 2025 by Staff Writer
Mark G. Kerson, 37, of New York City was arrested by Southampton Town Police at about 9:15 p.m. on January 28 and charged with DWI after he was pulled over on David Whites Lane for speeding and an officer determined he had been drinking more than the legal limit for operating a motor vehicle.
by Staff Writer
The destruction of nearly 100,000 ducks at Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue late last month due to an outbreak of the avian flu there was alarming, and a tragedy for the family running the farm and their employees. It’s unclear whether the last remaining duck farm on Long Island will be able to rebound. The outbreak at the farm was the latest in a series of scary global outbreaks in recent months, affecting the poultry industry and resulting in a sharp increase in cost to consumers. Locally, it follows an outbreak of the deadly virus at Spring Farm, a game ...
by Editorial Board
The first two weeks of the second Donald Trump administration have been a fire hose of developments “flooding the zone,” so it’s easy to miss small developments that could have enormous impact in some quarters. One of those is the Federal Communications Commission and its new focus on NPR and PBS. The New York Times reported that FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has launched an investigation into “whether the news organizations’ member stations violated government rules by recognizing financial sponsors on the air.” Its conclusions could lead Congress to take away financial support. NPR and PBS acknowledge corporate sponsors on air, ...
by Editorial Board
A man was found dead last week in Westhampton Beach inside a van that did not belong to him, though authorities say the death is noncriminal in nature. On Monday, January 27, at 5:02 p.m., the owner of the van called Westhampton Beach Village Police to report a suspicious person he’d found sleeping in the front passenger seat of his van, which was parked off Main Street. The van owner reported he had noticed the passenger door was slightly ajar, and when he went to check on the van, he found the stranger inside. He told police he had tried ...
by Cailin Riley
A 2021 federal lawsuit against the Village of Southampton and its former police chief charging racial discriminatory practices in promotions was scheduled to go to trial this week, but the trial has been put off as the judge considers a motion for summary judgment. The motion on behalf of the defendants — former Chief Thomas Cummings, the Southampton Village government, and 10 unnamed co-defendants — will be decided in the coming weeks by Judge Nusrat J. Choudhury in an Eastern District of New York courtroom in Central Islip. Kareem Proctor, a Village Police officer, filed the lawsuit in October 2021 ...
by T.E. McMorrow
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Kyle Campbell on Jul 3, 2013