The executive board of the Brookhaven Town Democratic Committee has endorsed Suffolk County Legislator Bridget Fleming in her bid for the Democratic Party’s nomination to represent New York’s First Congressional District.
With in-person classes hanging in the balance, the Springs School Board adopted a five-day return rule for kids and employees out on Covid-19 quarantine or isolation — a distinct departure from the 10-day rule maintained by several nearby school districts. Another controversial Covid policy, known as test-to-stay, was under discussion in Sag Harbor, Montauk, and Springs this week.
Heavy machinery appearing this week at the parking lot of the ocean beach at the end of Beach Lane in Wainscott is for the East Hampton Town Trustees’ annual dredging of sand at the mouth of Georgica Pond.
A woman called police Sunday morning to report seeing, by the side of Stephen Hand’s Path near Cedar Street, a large black garbage bag containing what looked to be “a person, or human remains.” A potentially gruesome situation turned out to be rather routine.
