Call It What It IsSouthampton Village was originally settled in 1640 and incorporated as a village in 1894. Its bona fides as a historic place are strong, and there are notable pressures that threaten the village’s quaint roots, particularly when it comes to architecture...
Falling DownFirst, it was the Cranberry Hole Road Bridge in Amagansett, which was closed to all traffic in May 2023, then again a few weeks later, after the road over the Long Island Rail Road tracks was deemed unsafe. The bridge,...
Let's Get TogetherAmong the many ideas that have evolved in the past few decades is the notion of a “gathering.” For centuries, it meant getting together in person, face to face. In the latter half of the 20th century, telephones and even...
A Win All AroundThe 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...
A Perfect SolutionIt 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...
Art Is UniversalEsly 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,...
Right and WrongTown and village officials, and police departments, on the South Fork all deserve a round of applause and unqualified support, both for their recent principled stance on the Trump administration’s new aggressive policies toward the immigrant community, and for taking...
Long Island's Last Ducks?The destruction of nearly 100,000 ducks at Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue late last month due to an outbreak of the avian flu there was alarming, and a tragedy for the family running the farm and their employees. It’s unclear...
