Town Board Starts Year Tackling Toughest Job
A deal between East Hampton Town and the State Department of Environmental Conservation will allow the town to spread the gargantuan task of closing its two landfills over the next 13 years.

New Accabonac Crises
Without a $1 million-plus gift from the town, the East Hampton Housing Authority's beleaguered Accabonac Highway affordable housing project may never be completed, according to Maureen Murphy, the group's new chairwoman.

AIRPORT
Supervisor Cathy Lester and her Democratic allies on the East Hampton Town Board voted Tuesday to appeal a State Supreme Court ruling ordering her to sign a construction contract for work on East Hampton Airport's main runway.

CUTTING BACK: Hospital Layoffs Loom
Southampton Hospital will lay off 25 full-time employees, including seven registered nurses and two vice presidents, and also reduce the hours of 25 part-time and per diem employees, as of Feb. 7.

SANDRA W. MEYER
Sandra Wasserstein Meyer, a resident of Lee Avenue, East Hampton, and Manhattan, who was one of the first female executives at several major corporations, died on Dec. 30, 1997, at New York University Hospital in Manhattan. Mrs. Meyer, who was 60, had breast cancer for several years.