Rerouting Of Drop-Off Traffic At Southampton High School Raises Concerns Among Parents
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Colleen Reynolds on Mar 30, 2011
A new traffic pattern for dropping off and picking up students at Southampton High School has thrown some parents for a loop. Moms and dads of high school students voiced... more
It seems a lifetime ago, but there were moments of real promise in the relationship between the Shinnecock Nation and state and local governments. In 2020, after workers at a building site in Shinnecock Hills disturbed the remains of an Indigenous person, the town swiftly took action. A year later, the Town Board delivered a new law aimed at protecting graves and other culturally significant sites in town, with a focus on locations of importance to the nation. Two years later, New York State followed with a long-overdue law protecting unmarked graves. “I’m so happy it got done and this ...
by Editorial Board
A bill that would have bestowed new individual zip codes for Flanders, Riverside and Northampton failed to be taken up for a vote by the U.S. Senate before Congress wrapped up its business at the end of 2024. The bill, which would have granted zip codes to more than 40 small communities around the country, had been pushed through the U.S. House of Representatives by a bipartisan coalition of federal lawmakers and residents of the three northwestern Southampton Town hamlets had been encouraged by interest in the matter shown by Senator Charles Schumer’s office. But the bill was never brought ...
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Colleen Reynolds on Mar 30, 2011