Southampton Town Councilman Chris Nuzzi is once again proposing changes to the membership of the town’s Planning Board and Zoning Board of Appeals, this time in an attempt to make... more
The geese have grazed all that is left. They take surviving collards to stubs; there are bald patches in the rye. The carrots we passed over are mined out, gnawed like only a goose bill could, conically downward into the dirt. The oats are bleached linen white. A few more days of winter, and there is no icy grip. It is the witch hazel that gets the show rolling. Not as common as forsythia, and not always yellow, the early blooming tree is the most obvious thing in the landscape, because it glows. Honeybees, nearby scavenging for crocus, are secured ...
by Marilee Foster
Sincere thanks to all firefighters who responded to the Westhampton wildfire of March 8. A 30-foot wall of flames could not overcome the efforts of courageous firefighters who battled flames from the rooftop of my building. The safety of those firefighters who put their lives on the line is of greater importance than the damage I sustained. If the Pine Barrens Commission reduces the vegetative fuel with prescribed burns, sections the vast Pine Barrens preserve with cleared fire breaks or, at a minimum, allows property owners to clear a small buffer between their buildings and the preserve, such wildfires could ...
by Staff Writer
One of my favorite things to read in these pages is the coverage given to recipients of affordable housing, sometimes in conjunction with Habitat for Humanity. Imagine my surprise when I read in The New Republic that “The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration.” Under the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act, grants were made available to groups like Habitat for Humanity to incorporate energy-saving ideas in their housing programs. In retaliation, Donald Trump’s FBI directed the financial intermediary, Citibank, to freeze bank accounts for ...
by Staff Writer
Many people voted for Donald Trump because he promised to get rid of all of those violent, law-breaking illegal immigrants so we could feel safe again. So, how is that going? Trump announced with much fanfare that he would ship hundreds of them, thousands, maybe, to the horrible conditions at Guantánamo Bay. That has been a colossal failure. Only a few hundred passed through (flown there on our very expensive military planes). There was no need for the gigantic, uninhabitable tent, or the thousands of American military sent there to guard them. This publicity stunt cost the American taxpayer, by ...
by Staff Writer
Althea Gibson, the trailblazing African American female athlete, famously said, “No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.” I’ve had several of those somebodies who helped me in my life. One of them was Bob Vishno, the iconic coach at Pierson High School from the 1950s to the 1980s. On March 7, Coach died of natural causes at his home in Sag Harbor at the age of 93. A local reporter asked me upon his passing how long I had known Coach Vishno. For a moment, I was stumped. I couldn’t remember when I didn’t know Coach Vishno. When ...
by Fred W. Thiele, Jr.
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Brian Bossetta on Aug 26, 2009