For about 28.2 million homes in the United States a permanent state of digital disconnection is an everyday reality. According to Evan Marwell, chief executive and founder of Education SuperHighway, a nonprofit that’s dedicated to bridging the gap to broadband connectivity, the reason 18 million households are offline is that they simply afford an internet connection.
A community survey revealed a desire for offerings including exercise, workshops and classes, lectures, a dining room and coffee bar, outdoor gardens, arts, games, social clubs, and outdoor games. People want a “community not ‘senior’ center,” “a happy place,” “croquet plus shuffleboard,” "bigger tables, bigger kitchen, more help, a lanai so we can sit out even in the rain.”
The East Hampton Town Trustees have commenced a survey of docks in waterways under their jurisdiction, a plan agreed upon shortly after the nine-member body approved construction of an 80-foot dock in Three Mile Harbor in October and subsequently enacted a 12-month moratorium on new docks catwalks, floating docks, floating structures, and floating platforms.
Gardiner’s Marina, on Three Mile Harbor in Springs, hasn’t changed much since 1962. It's owners want to expand not by adding slips, but enlarging the boat basin so that roughly 10 slips can accommodate larger vessels and renovating the existing bulkhead.
