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Letters to the Editor 02.07.19
The Last Duck Springs February 2, 2019Dear Mr. Rattray, The early morning reports from the Accabonac have quieted so I believe this year’s duck hunting is over. Saturdays and occasionally more often, I’d be awakened by the noise.
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At Its Best Amagansett May 6, 2019Dear David,It was East Hampton at its best on Saturday night at the Neighborhood House where the community came together to celebrate Cinquo de Mayo.
Letter to the Editor: 05.02.19
From Members East Hampton April 29, 2019To the Editor:I went to the Jewish Center of the Hamptons for a wonderful Passover Seder! On this holiday there is great focus on the children. Rabbi Joshua Franklin and Cantor Debra Stein did a most excellent job!
South Fork Poetry: ‘Memorial Day’
From “Hamptons,” a new poetry collection by Lucas Hunt, who will read from it at the Amagansett Library on Sunday at 2 p.m.
Cable Fight Obscures Greater Issue
Wind power is coming, and the waters south and east of Long Island are slated to be the site of more electricity-generating offshore turbines as time moves on. Climate change and energy independence are the big drivers of the move to renewable power.
Block Island Cable Revamp
With the first public statement hearing on the proposed South Fork Wind Farm’s Article VII application approaching, Orsted U.S. Offshore Wind and National Grid have been ordered to reinstall the transmission cables serving Orsted’s Block Island Wind Farm at their landfall site, Block Island’s Town Beach, after they became exposed.
Share the Road, Save the Planet
Above all else, the East End grumbles about traffic on Memorial Day weekend. Routine errands are run in haste during the previous workweek or put off until Tuesday. If one does venture out, it’s as if on a polar expedition, with circling to find a spot like parking-lot polka. The traffic control officers do their best to keep things moving. Fender-benders abound. Tempers rise.
Recorded Deeds 05.23.19
AMAGANSETT15 Green Tree L.L.C. to P. and R. Kanter, 15 Green Tree Court, 2.06 acres, March 8, $6,166,000.S. Goldart to Town of East Hampton, 25 and 35 La Foret Lane, 4.01 acres, March 28, $2,400,000.BRIDGEHAMPTONCVR First L.L.C. to D. Boutross, 23 Barn Lane, .84 acre, March 27, $3,300,000.BMC Partners L.L.C.
It’s CBD Tea to the RescueAmy Hammond, who recently started Glow Water, which produces three formulas of CBD tea, says an emerging market will soon become ubiquitous as people realize the benefits.
Connections: Language Creep
In this digital age in which even someone like me, who thinks of herself as a stickler for grammar and punctuation and has made the English language her lifetime work, uses linguistic shortcuts — IMHO, for example — it seems pretty antiquated to complain about other writers’ prose stylings.I never claimed excellence in grammar, but there was a time when I boasted of a proclivity for s
The Lineup: 05.23.19
It’s that men’s slow-pitch softball time of year again. Get your rundown of that and other locals sports action right here.
Hold the ChiantiThomas Harris, the undisputed king of memorable grotesquerie, returns with a murderous albino pornographer, sex trafficker, torturer, and organ harvester in his long-awaited new thriller.