South Fork Commuter Connection To Return September 7
Zoe Kava on Aug 24, 2021
After more than a year of absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the South Fork Commuter Connection, the Long Island Rail Road commuter train service with weekday trains from Speonk... 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 ...
8 Jan 2025 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 House of Representatives by a bipartisan coalition of federal lawmakers and residents of the three nortwestern Southampton Town hamlets had been encouraged by interest in the matter shown by Senator Charles Schumer’s office. But the bill was never brought to ...
by Michael Wright
