Patchita Tennant is on leave from her job as a manager at the CVS pharmacy in East Hampton, following her arrest on charges of shooting her boyfriend in their Flanders home earlier this month and then fleeing with their 3-year-old daughter, who was later found safe.
Imagine a village with fewer empty stores in the off-season, with more cafes and affordable apartments in “bungalow courts.”
Those are a few of the potential changes a civil engineering firm hired by the East Hampton Village Board on Friday will explore as it develops plans to revitalize East Hampton Village’s commercial district, provide a sewage treatment system for the area, and increase parking and affordable housing.
For those who remember David Gruber’s early involvement in East Hampton politics, his alliance this election year with the local Republican Party might seem an unlikely pairing.
A new policy handed down by the Trump administration last month will limit the ability of immigrants to obtain visas and apply for permanent residence. The “public charge” ruling, as it is known, pertains to applications by people who have used or are even likely to use many types of government benefits.
