Manny Vilar To Chair East Hampton GOP After Amos Goodman Is Charged With Fraud
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Michael Wright on Dec 8, 2018
Just two days after its former chairman, Amos Goodman, was arraigned on 20 felony charges, having been accused of forging the signatures of Republican voters on the party’s nominating petitions,... more
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
Through the month of January, Birdies Ale House, on County Road 39 in Southampton, will participate in Pints for Pups, in which for each pint of beer sold, the bar will donate $1 to ARF Hamptons. Plus, on Sunday, January 19, the ARF mobile adoption van will be in the parking lot at Birdies from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. For more information, visit arfhamptons.org.
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The Town of Southampton Youth Bureau will be holding open auditions for the 2025 Hamptons Got Talent Competition on Friday, January 24, at the Southampton Cultural Center, 25 Pond Lane, and on Friday, January 31, at the Hampton Bays Community Center, 25 Ponquogue Avenue. Auditions will be held from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on both dates. Students in grades five through 12, who reside and/or attend school in Southampton Town, are eligible to enter. Finalists will have the opportunity to work with performance coaches and mentors at a series of rehearsals before they perform in the Hamptons Got Talent Competition, ...
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Steve Frano has been selected to be the grand marshal of the 57th Westhampton Beach St. Patrick’s Parade. The lifelong resident of Westhampton is a 50-year member of the Westhampton Beach Fire Department, also serving at one time as its chief, a former member of the Westhampton War Memorial Ambulance who retired to help take care of his son. “The St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee is very proud to have Steve Frano as our 2025 grand marshal. Steve appropriately chose this year’s parade theme to be ‘Is There a Volunteer Within You?’ With his long history of volunteering for the ...
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The Parrish Art Museum has appointed seven new members to its Board of Trustees: Ruchira Bhuyan, Marty Cordes, Suzi Cordish, Astrid Hill, Dr. Harvanit Gahunia, Kimberley Taylor, and Marlies Verhoeven. According to the museum, the new trustees bring expertise in philanthropy, global communications, health care, contemporary art, and real estate, further strengthening the Museum’s mission to celebrate art, artists, and the East End’s artistic legacy and expand access to the arts for the surrounding community and beyond. “As we begin an exciting year filled with extraordinary exhibitions and deep community engagement, we are thrilled to welcome these dynamic leaders to ...
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Submissions are now being accepted for the fourth annual Bliss Morehead Poetry Grant. The $1,000 grant is awarded each April to the competition winner. Applicants must be unpublished poets aged 17 or older and reside on the East End of Long Island (Riverhead and points east). Bliss Morehead was a resident of Shelter Island who dedicated much of her life to the art of poetry. As a student of poetry, and a poet herself, she sought to share “this most complex of cultural achievements.” Bliss was the founder and curator of the Shelter Island Poetry Project which produced the annual ...
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Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts has released its winter/spring 2025 lineup of classes and workshops. Among the offerings are Improv for Everyone, running from January 27 to March 3, for those 21 and older; On-Camera Scene and Character Study, January 27 through March 4, for those 16 and older; Mic Drop … Karaoke Edition, from January 29 through March 5, for those 21 and older; and On-Camera Workshop, one day only, Saturday, March 15, for those 16 and older. For details about each workshop, or to register, visit baystreet.org.
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Michael Wright on Dec 8, 2018