A proposal from PSEG Long Island, the electric utility, to install a single supersize pole on Cooper Lane that would allow for fewer transmission lines and less obtrusive poles on nearby McGuirk and King Streets, was the subject of a heated public hearing at an ad hoc meeting of the village board on Tuesday evening.
Valerie Cartright, a Democrat and Brookhaven Town councilwoman, is the fourth candidate to enter the race for the New York State Senate seat now held by Senator Kenneth P. LaValle.
Representative Lee Zeldin of New York’s First Congressional District, which covers the South Fork, was appointed to President Trump’s impeachment defense team on Monday.
Genevieve Frances Keyser of East Hampton, who had a long career as the head of communications for Winthrop Hospital in Mineola, died of heart disease on Monday. She was 88 and had been ill for about a year and a half.
