Sultan Kilic was sleeping in her sixth-floor apartment in Adana, Turkey, with her 10-year-old son, Cagan, at 4:30 a.m. on Feb. 6, when the earth began to speak, and their building began to shake. “We formed a ‘life triangle’ and waited to die,” she recalled this week in Sag Harbor, where she is now staying with her son.
An East Hampton Town proposal to build a sewage treatment plant in Montauk appears to be dead in the water for now following a unanimous 8-to-0 vote by Suffolk County Parks Commission trustees last week to reject a proposed town-county land swap that was key to the project’s getting off the ground.
Last week, an attorney for Vrbo filed a motion with the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, asking that it dismiss Vrbo as a defendant in a civil suit involving a fatal fire at a Noyac rental house last August.
The Southampton Town Board chose not to close a public hearing and vote to commit community preservation fund money to a Sag Harbor School District project to build an athletic field and community park across from the school along Marsden Street. Instead, at its meeting Tuesday night, and much to school officials’ chagrin, the board voted to keep the public hearing open until its March 14 meeting.
