The East Hampton Town Planning Board did last week what it has taken nearly five years to do: agreed that the draft environmental impact statement for the Wainscott Commercial Center was complete. The vote closes a chapter in the saga of the 70.4-acre former sand mine, located just north of the Speedway Station in Wainscott, and opens another, as a public comment period has now begun.
If Norman Rockwell were alive today, his iconic Saturday Evening Post illustrations might star not Mother and Father with their children, but rather blended families featuring step-parents and step-siblings. “The so-called ‘blended family’ is no longer an aberration in American society: It’s a norm,” the American Psychological Association wrote in 2019. How, then, can blended families navigate holiday celebrations most smoothly? An expert from Sag Harbor weighs in.
As it strives to make good on President Biden’s goal of adding 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy capacity by decade’s end, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced last week that it had issued two draft environmental impact statements for proposed wind projects in waters off Virginia Beach and New York.
After being named one of the 11 Most Endangered Historic Places in the United States earlier this year, the Springs property of the late artists James Brooks and Charlotte Park will now be the beneficiary of a full-on historical architectural assessment by Michael Devonshire of Jan Hird Pokorny Associates, a New York City firm “with a strong focus in historic preservation work,” according to its website.
