Southampton Town Plans To Purchase The Bel-Aire Cove Motel In Hampton Bays For Redevelopment
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The Bel-Aire Cove Motel in Hampton Bays.
The Bel-Aire Cove Motel in Hampton Bays.
Greg Wehner on Aug 15, 2018
Southampton Town officials are poised to purchase the Bel-Aire Cove Motel in Hampton Bays and expect to demolish the building and prepare it for resale—a deal that is the first... more
Jonathan Swezey Raynor, a devoted husband, father, grandfather, brother, teacher, and mentor, passed away on February 6, 2025, at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. He was 74. Jonathan was born on March 30, 1950, the son of Robert Clinton Raynor and Dorothy Raynor (née Swezey). He was raised in Remsenburg and graduated from Westhampton Beach High School before attending SUNY Oswego, where he met the love of his life, Elizabeth “Betsy” Gaylord. The two married in 1973 and shared a lifetime of love and partnership until Betsy’s passing from glioblastoma in March of last year. A lifelong ...
19 Feb 2025 by Staff Writer
The closure of the Brookhaven Town landfill in North Bellport within the next couple of years is poised to make throwing things away on the South Fork much more expensive. Anything the town can do to reduce the volume of trash being sent away from its transfer stations will go a long way toward controlling costs — and it has the added benefit of being better for the environment, the importance of which can’t be understated. The recent introduction of food scrap drop-off bins at the Hampton Bays and North Sea transfer stations — Sag Harbor and Westhampton will also ...
by Staff Writer
It feels like a classic “family dispute”: The Southampton History Museum, as respected and beloved a local organization as there is, and the Conscience Point Shellfish Hatchery, which in its brief life has done plenty to spread goodwill even as it bolsters the local shellfish populations, supports the baymen who rely on them for a living and, as a bonus, helps clean the waters. Plus, the hatchery provides a much-needed link between the storied past and present of aquaculture on the South Fork, and its future, by bringing in a whole new generation of shellfish enthusiasts through educational programs. As ...
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Esly Escobar found a passion for the visual arts quite by accident, he says. The LTV studios technician and Westhampton Beach resident describes one winter when he literally threw colorful paints on cardboard, and he fell in love. Before long, he had cleaned up a spot in his basement to serve as a studio and “got lost in it” for years. “I’d forget about everything. I would just go to work, come back, go buy materials,” he said. The driving passion resulted in him producing over 70 paintings. He soon found himself with a solo show at the Remsenburg Academy, ...
by Editorial Board
The Southampton Inn owner’s plan for a resort hotel off Hill Street received a green light from the Southampton Village Board last week in a 4-1 vote. The board approved a special permit during its Thursday, February 13, meeting, although the resort hotel still needs approval from the village’s land-use boards before the plan can proceed. The proposal is for 40 resort hotel units, eight units of workforce housing and two additional units for hotel staff. It supersedes a special permit the Village Board approved in 2021 for 46 hotel suites, four workforce housing units and four market-rate duplex housing ...
by Brendan J. O’Reilly
The Southampton Village Board heard mixed reviews last week regarding two proposed village laws, one that would establish a tax exemption for historic properties and another to require a village permit before a homeowner may remove a tree over a certain size from within property setbacks. The proposed tax exemption would allow the owners of historic properties to alter or rehabilitate their homes without an immediate increase in their tax assessments — as long as the rehabilitation work or alterations are for the purpose of historic preservation. “It phases in taxes for any improvements that are made specific to the ...
by Brendan J. O’Reilly
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Greg Wehner on Aug 15, 2018