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Driver’s License Panel Thursday

Thu, 01/30/2020 - 14:22

The hows and whys of New York’s new driver’s licenses for all program will be explained at a panel discussion this evening at 6 at the East Hampton Library.

Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. will take part with Sandra Dunn and Andrew Strong of the OLA of Eastern Long Island advocacy group. Tim Garneau, a new East Hampton Town trustee and member of the East Hampton Town Anti-Bias Task Force, will moderate. The Anti-Bias Task Force is a co-sponsor.

The new law allows state residents, regardless of immigration status, to apply for licenses. It went into effect in December.

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Buddhist Monks on the Path to World Peace

Twenty or so monks from a monastery in Texas are making their way to Washington, D.C., on a mission of compassion, while locally a class on the Buddhist path to world peace will be held in Water Mill.

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‘ICE Out’ Vigils on Friday

Coordinated vigils for what organizers call victims of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement will happen across the East End on Friday at 6 p.m. and in Riverhead on Saturday at 10 a.m., with local events scheduled in East Hampton Village and Sag Harbor.

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Item of the Week: The Reverend and the Accabonac Tribe

This photostat of a deposition taken on Oct. 18, 1667, from East Hampton’s first minister, Thomas James, is one of the earliest records we have of “Ackobuak,” or “Accabonac,” as a place name.

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