With plans to remodel her father’s 35-year-old Hampton Auto Collision shop on Springs-Fireplace Road next door to Springs Pizza, Lindsay Reichart and her partner, Gunnar Burke, quickly won over the East Hampton Town Planning Board with their idea for “a year-round location for people to socialize.”
One of the first executive orders of the new Trump administration rescinded Biden administration policies that forbid Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from conducting raids in “sensitive areas” such as schools and places of worship. With this dramatic policy change, local school officials and religious leaders are banding together in a call to protect the immigrant community.
“Our building ranges from 25 to 98 years old,” he said, “and it’s really starting to show its age,” the school's chief custodian told the school board.
Oyster survivorship in Georgica Pond over the last five years is 40 to 50 percent, which Stony Brook’s Gobler Lab deems “really quite amazing.”
