Letters to the Editor for March 5, 2026
Hand-wringing, bafflement, and outrage. Behold the Star mailbag.
Hand-wringing, bafflement, and outrage. Behold the Star mailbag.
Patricia S. Burnett of East Hampton died on Feb. 24 at the age of 98. The Brockett Funeral Home in Southampton is handling arrangements.
Minerva Perez, the executive director of Organizacion Latino Americana, has been pushing local governments to adopt an East End Public Safety and Accountability Law, drafted by OLA, that would clarify how local police would respond to Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids here.
Plans are in the works to revegetate an acre at Springs Park, cleared last year of invasive autumn olive trees.
Grass or brick? Those were the options on the table during a town board discussion about “beautification” to the south side of Amagansett Main Street from Hedges Lane to the west entrance to Amagansett Square.
On March 14, a Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Montauk transfer station, the first of this year’s four Stop Throwing Out Pollutants, or STOP, days will be held, giving residents a safe way to dispose of nasty trash items.
Sag Harbor residents were the first on the East End to try out new, all-digital voting machines unveiled by the Suffolk County Board of Elections last week in anticipation of the June 23 primaries.
The ghost of Justin Timberlake’s adjudicated June 2024 drunken-driving arrest in Sag Harbor resurfaced this week, with the pop star’s lawyers fighting the release of video footage from the incident.
An East Hampton woman had run-ins with police in both East Hampton and Southampton Towns last week, both leading to felony charges.
A woman hit a pothole on Fireplace Road in Springs Saturday. It was so large, she told police, that it damaged a tire on her Chevrolet beyond repair.
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