Better use of the aquifer, and an appreciation of it as an existential resource, could help mitigate the vicissitudes of nature when it comes to the health of our water supply, and the Suffolk County Water Authority is at work on both fronts.
The Climate Prediction Center, a division of the National Weather Service, now predicts a 60-percent chance of between 14 and 21 named storms, of which six to 11 could become hurricanes, and two to five of them major hurricanes. An outlook issued in May predicted just a 30-percent likelihood of an above-average hurricane season.
Covid-19 cases have been increasing across New York State in recent weeks, with a new Omicron subvariant to blame. The good news, Stony Brook Southampton Hospital said this week, is that even among people who are admitted with Covid, it has not recently seen patients who are in need of intensive care treatment.
East Hampton Town is a place of both abundance and scarcity, an extreme example of the widening gap between rich and poor. But a new initiative, Hamptons Pantry Pickup, aims to connect the two, in a sense, while simultaneously reducing waste and providing for those in need.
