Editorials

Needed Remedy It was only luck that kept Robert Sargeant, a crossing guard at the Bridgehampton School, from injury earlier this month. He was trying to stop traffic for a school bus when a car bumped him and knocked him to the ground. The driver apologized but left before identifying himself. Library Fees Good news arrived last week for the beautifully renovated and expanded East Hampton Library in the form of a State Supreme Court decision that gave it $100,000 from a trust established in 1939 by William Carter Dickerman, president of the American Locomotive Company. The board of managers raised an amazing $3 million in private donations to pay for the lion's share of the project and the windfall will allow them to pay off the rest. Spit And Polish Brookhaven National Laboraratory embarked last week on an expensive scheme to develop "a strategic plan for improving its communications," in other words, to change the public perception of the lab by some sophisticated P.R. Please address correspondence to editor@easthamptonstar.com