In-person voting for the Amagansett Library’s annual board election is from Friday, March 15, through March 17.
Mail-in ballots must be dropped in the library’s return bin by March 17.
Voters must live, rent, or own property in the hamlet’s school district. Those without a library card can show photo identification, a utility bill, a tax document, a lease, or a similar document with name and Amagansett street address. Questions can be emailed to [email protected].
Sensational mentions of a flesh-eating bacterium aside, the State of the Bays symposium at the Stony Brook Southampton campus offered dire news regarding degraded waterways and climate change.
The Vibrio vulnificus “flesh eating” bacterium “is not unusual in warm saltwater or brackish environments and does not necessarily indicate pollution or a widespread public health emergency,” the Southampton Town Trustees said in an advisory issued following a social media post that went viral.
The L.I.R.R.’s Fishermen’s Special to Montauk and Hampton Bays was once a convenient and popular rail service for urban anglers. The photo here is from 1946.
Your support for The East Hampton Star helps us deliver the news, arts, and community information you need. Whether you are an online subscriber, get the paper in the mail, delivered to your door in Manhattan, or are just passing through, every reader counts. We value you for being part of The Star family.
Your subscription to The Star does more than get you great arts, news, sports, and outdoors stories. It makes everything we do possible.