Standing on the steps of the Suffolk County Supreme Court building Riverhead, amid a crowd that had swelled to several hundred Wednesday, Candace Alexandra Hall of Greenport spoke about the ...
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SOUTHAMPTON, NY — Their voices breaking, three Southampton High School students spoke about what it has been like to grow up in a time when active shooter drills are the ...
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Ann Thomas, a recent Republican and Conservative candidate for Southampton Town Council, wrote a Letter to the Editor this month [“Great Strides,” Letters, December 9] “to connect with the local ...
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I am applying for the job of Southampton Town councilwoman. You, the voters, will review my background and accomplishments and decide on November 2 whether I get the job. I’m ...
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Today, in the most beautiful place on earth, Suffolk County District 1, we have a problem. The world, the country and the anger from both sides is prevalent at the ...
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I have not lived in the East End for many years, but I am a full-time, voting Southampton resident who cares greatly about local elections. I don’t understand how Barbara ...
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As a longtime town resident, I have often wondered why we elect someone to head Southampton Town’s Highway Department instead of selecting the person with the best professional qualifications for ...
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In the upcoming election on November 2, we are fortunate to have Tom Neely, a new candidate for Southampton Town highway superintendent. Tom will be the most experienced candidate we ...
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People want to live here. Our successful stewardship of our environment has made the Town of Southampton highly desirable. It is our commitment to preserving green spaces and farmland, clean ...
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I am writing this letter to ask all registered voters in Southampton Town, regardless of political affiliation, for your support, and your vote, in my race for Southampton Town justice ...
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As Election Day approaches on Tuesday, November 2, please consider casting your vote for the Southampton Town Democrats. The candidates include a teacher, a traffic expert, a sea captain, conservation ...
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There are many wonderful candidates on the slate this year. I am writing to support Tommy John Schiavoni for reelection as a Southampton Town councilman whom I have had the ...
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I’ve been spending a lot of time on the water of late, boating, swimming, kayaking and paddleboarding. The air is crisp, the water still warm. The natural beauty is just ...
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While you may know where President Joe Biden stands on vaccine mandates, or what Mitch McConnell’s stance is on raising the debt limit, do you know who’s running for Southampton ...
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It’s all about the traffic. We talk about protecting our environment and promoting our economy, but to do that we must solve Southampton Town’s traffic crisis, on the ground and ...
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The new and improved Westhampton Beach Village and Main Street should serve as the perfect example of the benefits of an infrastructure investment. It is night and day compared to ...
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Tom Neely is the man for East End traffic control as Southampton Town highway superintendent. Yes, he can do the job, and we need his skills desperately. Tom has the ...
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On the East End of Long Island, we believe we are “woke” — we believe we are doing something. We believe we are good people. We recycle, we greet our ...
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My home in Noyac represents a unique family history. It was a second home for my family for three generations. In the 1960s, my grandparents purchased the quaint beach house ...
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My life has been an eastward migration from bungalows in Breezy Point and the Rockaways, to West Islip, Fire Island and now Sag Harbor. I remember Reynolds Channel and the ...
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Labor Day has passed and the 2021 campaign season is now underway in earnest. In my humble opinion, things are going very well here in the Town of Southampton with ...
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The fate of our pollinators — ladybugs, bees, birds, butterflies, bats and more — has been at the forefront of environmental issues for many years but is getting special attention ...
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On November 2, Southampton Town voters will cast their ballots to determine town leadership for the next two to four years. Events over the past few years make plain that ...
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Three primary elections for town office in Southampton on Tuesday, June 22, are expected to cost taxpayers $118,000, even though it is likely that only a few hundred voters will ...
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The Working Families Party, being a liberal party, usually, but not always, cross-endorses the Democratic candidates for town and county offices. This minor party line does not pull a huge ...
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Southampton Democrats are fighting back over what they say is an unethical, but legal, practice in which members of the Conservative or Republican parties have registered as members of the ...
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By Michael Gormley michael.gormley@newsday.com  @GormleyAlbany Updated May 23, 2021 5:58 PM PDF version here ALBANY — The liberal Working Families Party says it’s being raided by former Republicans and Conservatives who ...
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Democrat Jonathan Kornreich has won a Brookhaven Town Board seat in a special election to fill the vacant post. Kornreich, 51, of Stony Brook, trounced Republican Theresa Laucella in Tuesday’s ...
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SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — His obituary described him as one of the most respected residents of the Hamptons. But the important legacy of former slave Pyrrhus Concer was lost in the last century ...
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That was no ordinary piece of scrap metal arriving in Hampton Bays on the back of a flatbed truck on Thursday, February 11. It was the nearly 7,000-pound anchor from ...
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In January of 2018, Suffolk County became safer. This was the month that Errol D. Toulon Jr. assumed the position of sheriff—Suffolk County’s highest ranking law enforcement official. Elected that prior November, ...
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The Suffolk County Legislature closed a public hearing on the county's Shellfish Aquaculture Lease Program on Feb. 2, with some legislators expressing weariness and irritation at residents pressing for tighter ...
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LONG ISLAND, NY — On Friday, Rep. Lee Zeldin addressed his decision to vote in support of Georgia Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene, who was stripped by the U.S. House of ...
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With Democrats now in control of both houses of Congress and the White House, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Rep. Thomas Suozzi have reintroduced legislation to restore the full ...
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The Windsor Heart, a tribute to gay rights activist Edith Windsor, will be unique among a growing collection of memorials honoring the woman who fought for marriage equality. Set on ...
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SUFFOLK COUNTY, NY — Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone has joined United States Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in calling for the impeachment or removal of President Donald Trump from office ...
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Riverhead Town has joined with other East End towns in an amicus (“friend of the court”) brief supporting the Southampton Town in defending an appeal brought by a Noyac sand ...
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The “holiday surge” in COVID-19 infections has hit “shocking” levels that have Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone worried about what could happen in the wake of New Year’s celebrations. In ...
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Long Island is typically second only to Hawaii in the cost of electricity, but only 5 percent of that electricity is derived from renewable sources, Suffolk Legislator Bridget Fleming, who ...
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Suffolk County lawmakers will look in the New Year into creating a digital platform to help town and village governments join and operate pacts to lower energy costs for consumers ...
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East Hampton Town Airport is either an essential South Fork economic engine or an environmental nightmare destroying the region’s lure, depending upon who’s asked, as the dogfight over the airport’s ...
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U.S. Representative Lee Zeldin defended President Donald Trump’s attacks on the American electoral system this week while also joining with the president in refusing to recognize Joe Biden as the ...
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Evelyn “Evie” Ramunno and the volunteers of the Sag Harbor Community Food Pantry were named the recipients of the Sag Harbor Partnership Community Service Award early this week. Members of ...
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The Democratic Party has far outpaced Republicans in recruiting new registered voters in Suffolk County in the past year, Turnout for the 2020 election soared in Suffolk County and on ...
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Southampton Town Justice Karen Sartain will retain her seat on the bench after the counting of absentee ballots lifted her past her Republican challenger, Patrick Gunn, in vote totals. Mailed-in ...
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Nancy Goroff should be the East End of Long Island’s next representative in Congress. Even for First District voters not politically aligned with her, having a member of the majority ...
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Nancy Goroff, the Democratic candidate to represent New York’s First Congressional District, has picked up the endorsement of two prominent Democrats in the state, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone and ...
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Vote for public servants who will represent all Americans. Few places in America have been hit harder by the coronavirus and its economic fallout than New York and New Jersey ...
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Nancy Goroff is the best prepared and most knowledgeable newcomer at any level of Long Island politics in years. The Stony Brook University chemistry professor is a scientist. And she’s running ...
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The Democratic Party has far outpaced Republicans in recruiting new registered voters in Suffolk County in the past year, especially in the South Fork towns, on the backs of city ...
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An arduous and at times tense election night count on Tuesday bled into Wednesday morning, and it took until around 1:30 a.m. for Joseph McLoughlin and his running mate, Gina ...
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“The coronavirus is still here,” Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman said Thursday morning, September 10, during a brief Town Board work session. Two out of every 100 tests for coronavirus ...
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A new community center is in the Westhampton community’s future. On Tuesday, the Southampton Town Board unanimously approved the $4.1 million purchase of the property at 112 Old Riverhead Road ...
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The Southampton Town Board passed historic legislation Tuesday afternoon to protect unmarked Shinnecock graves and burial sites, the first law of its kind in New York State. “Protection for Unmarked ...
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The COVID-19 public health crisis led to an economic crisis, according to New York State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. Early on, in anticipation of the fiscal predation of the ...
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East End lawmakers have introduced a new law that will mandate early voting on Shelter Island, the only township on the Twin Forks not to have a dedicated early-voting polling ...
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The House Democrats' campaign committee on Wednesday added Long Island congressional candidate Nancy Goroff to its "Red to Blue" program. Goroff is challenging incumbent Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin in the ...
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Nancy Goroff, the former Stony Brook chemistry department chair who is running to unseat Congressman Lee Zeldin in the First Congressional District, is urging voters to not give in to ...
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Two measures designed to lessen the burden on local homeowners could provide property tax relief for year-round residents in Southampton Town, if given the go ahead by state lawmakers. Members ...
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On Friday, the Cook Political Report announced that it had changed its rating of 15 campaigns for the House of Representatives, 11 of them in Democrats' direction. Among these was ...
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United States Census Bureau workers began going door-to-door on the South Fork last week as the nationwide population survey finally began the in-person phase of counting the populace, after months ...
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The Peconic Bay Community Preservation Fund has seen its revenues soar in the first half of 2020, especially in Southampton and East Hampton towns. Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr., who ...
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Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone angrily denounced President Trump on Wednesday, telling reporters that the president referred to federal disaster assistance as “some sort of bailout” during his fund-raising visit to the South Fork ...
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Until last June, a thin strip of land that runs between the southern edge of Lake Agawam and the parking lot across from St. Andrew’s Dune Church on Gin Lane ...
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A tale of two cities - while D.C. Republicans manipulate the 2020 Census limiting our representation, Democrat Fred Thiele helps ensure our East End's voting rights . Tell your friends, ...
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The director of the U.S. Census Bureau, Steven Dillingham, ordered on Monday night that “illegal aliens” be removed from the final numbers used to apportion seats in the U.S. House ...
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The Founding Fathers were a gifted group. Somehow, sifting through all their competing interests, different constituencies, clashing ideas, and firmly held beliefs, they could still see clearly enough to draft ...
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Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman spoke at length on Friday, via Zoom, about the fallout from the July 25 benefit concert in Water Mill featuring the Chainsmokers — and Mr ...
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We all rejoiced when Michelle Obama announced her podcast earlier this month, and the news got even better when she revealed that her first guest would be her husband, Barack Obama. On Wednesday, the inaugural episode ...
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Today members of the TAI Social Justice Committee packed fresh farm vegetables for the members of the Shinnecock Nation. Made possible by generous donations! The Social Justice Group is co-chaired ...
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It is painfully ironic that that the federal agency created to keep the United States safe after the Sept. 11 attacks now targets Americans. In 2002, Congress created the Department ...
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The Montauketts have waited over 100 years to regain recognition from the State of New York after being declared extinct in 1910. But State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. believes ...
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WASHINGTON — Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone met on Capitol Hill Wednesday with members of the Long Island congressional delegation to make a plaintive point — without federal funding, the future ...
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The New York State Assembly and Senate have passed measures that could make it easier for voters to cast absentee ballots as well as register to vote, Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele ...
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Legislation penned by local state legislators this week, one that provides greater regulation of the Long Island Power Authority and the other that would lower rates for boating liability insurance, ...
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Nancy Goroff, a chemistry professor at Stony Brook University, would seem an unlikely candidate for Congress. A graduate of Harvard University who later received her doctorate at UCLA and did ...
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(CNN) With 100 days remaining until Election Day, voters in three critical battleground states swing in former Vice President Joe Biden's way, according to new Arizona, Florida and Michigan CNN polls conducted by SSRS. In Florida (51% ...
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Southampton Town’s updated housing plan will go beyond addressing the need for affordable housing and will determine all types of housing stock that will best serve the town’s future, according ...
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Approximately 4,000 building and electrical permits issued in the Town of Southampton since March will be extended another six months due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Southampton Town Supervisor Jay ...
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Landing the old Manhattan Motorcars building on Old Riverhead Road in Westhampton for a new community center would be “a score,” noted Craig Catalanotto, the vice chairman of the Citizens ...
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Nancy Goroff, the former chairwoman of the chemistry department at Stony Brook University, has won the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican incumbent Lee Zeldin for his 1st Congressional District House ...
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