For Water Quality
Proposition 2 on Suffolk County ballots this election cycle would allow the county to raise the sales tax by one-eighth of 1 percent to support a dedicated Water Quality Restoration Fund.
In Defense of Gunning
Should a gun club be allowed to exist in East Hampton in 2024?
The Mast-Head: Beware the Zombie Deer
Deer are rapidly adapting to their new reality and doing things they never did before.
Waxing Poetic Over Wainscott Preservation Buy
People have often been moved to paint or photograph the 30-acre property at 66 Main Street in Wainscott. At a public hearing last Thursday on East Hampton Town’s plan to purchase it for $56 million, some people were moved to near tears and others to poetry.
The Shipwreck Rose: The Groucho Vote
I’m a believer in the veil of distraction. It seems to me blatantly obvious that Karl Marx was correct on that score, anyway.
Early Voting Begins Saturday
Early voting begins on Saturday, and there are locations in East Hampton and Southampton where registered voters can cast ballots through Nov. 3.
Gristmill: Up, Up, and Away
The National Warplane Museum in Geneseo triggers (in a good way) one non-pilot.
On the Police Logs 10.24.24
On Saturday afternoon at the Huntting Inn, a woman caused $2,000 worth of damage to lights and lanterns, smashing them up, the manager told police, after she questioned a bartender about a former employee and objected to the response. After breaking eight lights, she got in an Uber and fled.
Sag Harbor Justice Argues in Federal Court
Carl Irace, an East Hampton attorney who is also a Sag Harbor Village Court Justice, is in a Manhattan federal court today to argue an appeal of a case involving “distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death.”
Hot Tea and a Hospital Trip
Two women were taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on the morning of Oct. 15 after their southbound Honda hit a telephone pole on Flamingo Avenue in Montauk, near Mulford Avenue.