With Sign Down, Canio’s Books Faces Next Chapter
While the overstuffed bookstore is no longer, whatever comes next at 290 Main Street in Sag Harbor, locals will always know it as Canio’s.
While the overstuffed bookstore is no longer, whatever comes next at 290 Main Street in Sag Harbor, locals will always know it as Canio’s.
Due to bridge and track maintenance on the Montauk branch of the Long Island Rail Road, trains will not run to or from the South Fork from very early Saturday morning, at 12:30 a.m., to Monday morning at 4.
Whether the East Hampton High School varsity and junior varsity girls volleyball teams won or lost matches with Amityville here Tuesday mattered little in light of the news that the players coached by Abigail Downs and Jacqueline Bates had raised around $15,000 for the Side-Out Foundation, a national organization that provides breast cancer treatment for women who can’t afford it and also finances breast cancer research.
The Bridgehampton School Board voted unanimously after an executive session last week to mandate another psychiatric evaluation for a popular English teacher who was reassigned to home leave less than a week into the school year in September.
The organizers of Hamptons Doc Fest have put out a call for student-produced films from across the East End. Middle and high school students have been invited to submit a short documentary film about the “Hometown Heroes” who have significantly impacted their lives and communities. The deadline for submissions is coming up quickly, with the window closing Friday, Oct. 11.
East Hampton Town officials are encouraging Springs residents to visit the town’s website by Wednesday to take a nine-question survey that will assist them in applying for $4.5 million in state money for the hamlet.
With just over a month before Election Day, the race in Congressional District 1 between Representative Nick LaLota, the Republican incumbent, and John Avlon, a former CNN anchor, is set to get interesting.
With the power line now fixed at East Hampton Village Mobile Home Community following a four-day summer outage, residents heard last week of a new issue stemming from the power failure: a 6-percent rent increase due to either “capital improvements” or increased “operating costs.” Now, residents wonder: Is that legal?
In 1834, 14-year-old Martha Thompson (1821-1854) made this sampler in Center Moriches. Detailed with the alphabet, her name, year of her birth, and a short poem, it was completed as a way for Martha to practice her needlework, writing, and reading skills.
The just over $103.72 million preliminary budget that Rebecca Hansen, the town administrator, presented to the board this week brings the town’s projected expenses above $100 million for the first time, because of an over $8 million spending increase.
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