Stephanie McNamara Bitis, a former general manager of Long Island Radio Broadcasting, admitted in November to using a company credit card for more than 600 personal expenses, but it wasn't until last week that her attorney and the assistant United States attorney prosecuting the case agreed on the exact dollar figure involved.
Under a New York State rule enacted in 2020 that is known as Brianna's Law, all operators of motorized watercraft are required to take a boating safety course by Jan. 1, 2025. With that in mind, New York State Assemblywoman Jodi Giglio has scheduled a safety course that meets those requirements.
The realms of fine food and fine arts will come together once again at the Watermill Center, where the Artists' Table brunch series returns starting June 5. From noon to 2:30 p.m., a farm-to-table meal by Martine Abitbol, an acclaimed chef and restaurateur, will be the backdrop for private presentations by Rachel Dickstein, an Obie Award-winning theater director, and Tomashi Jackson, a multidisciplinary artist who is the 2021 recipient of the Watermill Center's Inga Maren Otto Fellowship.
This is an original copy of a letter Robert Townsend, a Manhattan and Oyster Bay merchant, and his brother, Solomon Townsend, sent to two Charleston, S.C., merchants regarding an antislavery matter in 1787.
