“The timing could not be better,” Rebecca Morgan Taylor, Project Most’s executive director, said in an announcement, “as we aim to expand our services to meet the increased needs of our young people,” some of whom, who, she said, had experienced “traumatic interruptions during the pandemic.”
The lone star tick, which is far more common here than the black-legged tick, does not transmit Lyme disease, nor does it spread the very rare but scary Powassan virus. The good news stops there, though. Lone star ticks transmit ehrlichiosis, heartland disease, tularemia, Bourbon virus disease, and southern tick associated rash illness, or STARI.
New York Communities for Change got its message across, a member of the Brooklyn-based group of activists said Tuesday, with multiple demonstrations on the South Fork between Friday and Monday. They were protesting what they say is the role of the very wealthy — the “1 percent” — in perpetuating climate change, housing unaffordability, income inequality, and the destruction of native lands.
The East Hampton Village Board will resume public work sessions after a vote at their meeting on July 6. They will be held the first Thursday of each month, at 11 a.m., at a historic location to be determined before each meeting.
