Southampton Hospital Interested In Becoming East End's First Trauma Center
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Alyssa Melillo on Nov 10, 2015
Southampton Hospital is interested in becoming a Level 3 trauma center, which would enable it to stabilize severely injured patients before they are transported elsewhere to a Level 1 or... more
The family of Shirley M. Eckart, who died on December 21, 2024 in Westhampton Beach, is inviting friends and family to a celebration of life service on Saturday, April 26. She will be interred at 2:30 p.m. at Westhampton Cemetery, followed by the memorial service from 3 to 6 p.m. at Eckart’s Luncheonette. Refreshments will be served, Eckart was born in East Hampton on April 10, 1926, and will be remembered for a beautiful and long life shared with her husband Warren “Red” Eckart, children, family and friends. Eckart’s Luncheonette, more than breakfast and lunch — it’s a place where ...
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Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon Jr., along with representatives from the New York State Sheriff’s Association and autism advocacy organizations recently announced the Suffolk sheriff’s office’s participation in the nationwide Blue Envelope Program. The initiative, being sponsored by the New York State Sheriff’s Association, is intended to facilitate smoother interactions between law enforcement officers and drivers on the autism spectrum during traffic stops. The program provides drivers with an official envelope to safely store essential documents, such as a driver’s license, vehicle registration, and insurance information. In addition, the blue envelope serves as a visual cue to officers, signaling that ...
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Thomas Paul Stubelek of Southampton died on April 7 in his home. He was 77. He was born in Southampton on January 20, 1949, to Marilyn McLeod Stubelek and Walter Henry Stubelek. He graduated from Southampton High School and began working as a milkman for Sherry’s Dairy and later for Schwenk’s Dairy. He loved the outdoors and ultimately became a gardener and caretaker. He took pride in caring for his roses and the estates where he worked all of his life. When not working, he enjoyed spending time at the ocean or watching the Yankees. He enjoyed his friends and ...
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SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — Three men were arrested on March 30 after they attempted to steal what police called a “full cart of groceries” from the Stop & Shop supermarket on Jagger Lane. Christian G. Lucero, 27, John Luna Matute, 27, and Milton Peralta, 31, all of Southampton, were each charged with petit larceny, a misdemeanor. Police said the men had filled a cart with groceries and then pushed it out of the store without paying for the items. Store employees stopped them in the parking lot as they were loading the groceries into a car and called police. All three ...
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If you poll most Americans of all political stripes, you’d find a general agreement that there’s likely waste and fraud in the massive amount of federal spending, and that identifying and eliminating it would be a worthwhile task. What’s happening, though, in the first 100 days of the second Donald Trump administration is drawing criticism, and it’s because the cuts are being made with a chainsaw — Elon Musk’s symbolism, not ours — instead of a scalpel. Surgery was needed, but the intervention appears far worse than the ailment the nation came in with. One piece of evidence to support ...
9 Apr 2025 by Editorial Board
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Alyssa Melillo on Nov 10, 2015