Taxpayers Approve $2.4 Million Hampton Bays Public Library Budget On Tuesday
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The Hampton Bays Public Library. VALERIE GORDON
The Hampton Bays Public Library. VALERIE GORDON
Valerie Gordon on Aug 15, 2018
On Tuesday, taxpayers approved the Hampton Bays Public Library’s $2.4 million operating budget for 2019, 239-79. The budget, which will go into effect on January 1, will increase spending by... more
One of my friends owns the Green Bay Packers. Back in November, the topic of conversation at the mahjong table was Thanksgiving plans. Sally Belfi announced that she was going to the Packers game in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She added a green battery-operated heated vest to wear with her thermals, down coat, her warmest hat, socks and boots. I asked her: Why Green Bay? That’s when she told me that she and family members were owners of the Packers. I gasped in surprise. She laughed and said, “Not like Jimmy Jones, Rob Walton or Steve Tisch. Green Bay is publicly ...
4 Feb 2025 by Denise Gray Meehan
Sympathetically, I told my students last week that the use of cellphones wasn’t allowed in my classes. When I became a professor (of journalism) in 1978, cellphones were certainly not an issue. But, these days, youngsters are, I’d say, more attached to their cellphones than any other object (exceeded only perhaps, for those of driving age, by their cars). And there is obsessive use of them. I expressed sympathy as classes started for the 2025 semester, because cellphones have in recent years become a necessity in functioning in what has been dubbed the “digital society.” It’s not the students’ fault ...
by Karl Grossman
The East Hampton Healthcare Foundation has expanded its student scholarship program and will now award two scholarships in 2025. The health care education scholarships will award $2,500 per year of study to two graduating high school seniors in the Town of East Hampton who will be pursuing a health care education at a two-year technical school or four-year college. Special consideration will be given to applicants in the BOCES nursing program who are intending to work in health care in East Hampton Town after graduation. Interested applicants should visit their school guidance counselor for more information and an application.
3 Feb 2025 by Staff Writer
The Southampton Animal Shelter Foundation will be the beneficiary of a “Tail-Gating” party at Uber Geek Brewery in Riverhead on Saturday, February 8, from 1 to 4 p.m. The brewery is located at 400 Hallett Avenue. The event is intended to showcase adoptable pets as a buildup to the Super Bowl the next day. Expect opportunities to take pet photos, a “puppy bowl” play yard, football-based chance games, raffles, snacks for people and pets, a pop-up shop from Spoiled Bitch Boutique, a food truck, adoptable dogs and beer. The Synergy Brew Project is taking over the taps at Uber Geek ...
by Staff Writer
Sound Aircraft Services at East Hampton Airport is hosting a program for young people to learn about becoming a pilot. The “Guide for Aspiring Aviators and Their Families” will take place on Friday, February 7, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the airport, 173 Daniels Hole Road in Wainscott. The program will touch on local training options, and a panel of experts, including East Hampton Town Airport director and former United Airlines Captain James Brundige, and ex-FAA regulator turned flight instructor Lou Cusimano will answer questions. Those who wish to attend should email fbo@soundaircraftservices.com.
by Staff Writer
In recognition of Black History Month, Hallockville Museum Farm will host “Slavery on the North Fork,” a presentation by members of the North Fork Project, which has spent four years researching the history of slavery in local communities. The presentation will be held on Sunday, February 23, from 1 to 3 p.m. in the visitors center at Hallock State Park Preserve, 6062 Sound Avenue, Riverhead. The illustrated presentation, “Slavery on the North Fork,” will lay out the history of slavery on the North Fork from the earliest settlements in New York State to the abolition of slavery here in 1827. ...
by Staff Writer
A new program for teens, “Ambassadors for the Long Island Collection,” is being offered by the East Hampton Library. The program, open to those in grades six through eight, will be held at the library on Friday, February 28, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Students will earn community service hours while exploring the history of Long Island through the treasures found in the library’s Long Island Collection. Participants will get an up-close look at the collection’s artifacts (including “pirate treasure” from Captain Kidd and a whale’s tooth); will learn about the Culper Spy Ring, the Revolutionary War-era espionage network; and ...
by Staff Writer
Now that most leaf blowers have gone into hibernation, we have the real quiet of midwinter to relish. Contrary to description, quiet is not actually quiet, but it is largely left alone, undisturbed, and so in the empty, cold air you can hear the small but cumulative sounds. Things like beach pebbles, miles away, drawing back with a wave. The predation begins before dawn. The woman fills her feeders. The sparrows move in, and doves, lazy from the cold night, flap down from high branches to huddle on the ground. One small movement begets another — and the hawk sifts ...
28 Jan 2025 by Marilee Foster
Governor Kathy Hochul recently issued two whoppers of vetoes of measures passed by the New York State Legislature. One was of a bill that recognizes the Montaukett Indian Nation. As East Hampton Town declared in a proclamation in November, “the Montaukett remain resilient.” But don’t tell that to Governor Hochul. The Montaukett were the victims of a land grab in a 1910 court case, Pharaoh v. Benson. “The New York State courts removed recognition from the Montaukett in a racist decision based on the legal fiction that the Montaukett were extinct to justify what could only be described as a ...
by Karl Grossman
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Valerie Gordon on Aug 15, 2018