On The Beach Blog

This is the ideal house-warming present for the home-owner who has everything, but is careful about who knows it. More...

...or so the Southampton Town Democratic and Independence supporters would have everyone believe.

Candidate says invitations at work were a mistake

No kidding! More...

...and is it, or is it not, a "hate crime" involving a young local woman from Dune Road?

It depends on whether one trusts News­day or Long Island Press. More...

...or, How well do you know our local Congress­man? More...

...and the devil appears!

Or at least an automated version of his voice does! More...

Having seen something being promulgated around the Internet of late as the words of our 26th President of the United States, I under­took to learn exactly what Theodore Roosevelt actually did say about immigrants "back then," and when he said it. More...

Updated 06/28/2009 – 06:05 pm

I've been of two minds about our Congress­man, Tim Bishop, D-NY, for some years now.

On the plus, he exhibited a certain admirable testicularity at a Peconic River Sportsman's Legislative Night More...

If there was any soul for whom the term "irre­pressible" was more suited than Gaylord Rob­bins, I was never afforded the pleasure of his or her company. More...

No one likes a sore loser, and neither of the candidates who came up short... w-a-a-a-y short... on Friday, will be have that opprobrium hung on them! More...

So, just how does an adventurous 50-some­thing mother and step-mother of six deal with the prospects of an "empty nest?" More...

...this morning, I awoke with several thoughts that must have been processing while I slept:

1. Mayor Conrad Teller's personal More...

The politics of fear prevailed in Westhampton Beach today as both incumbents were returned to office by convincing margins. More...

Updated 06/19/2009 – 08:56 pm

From a June 2008 entry:

"...Westhampton Beach should have an election free from the taint of ineligible voters attempting to rig the outcome."

That hasn't happened for the past two years More...

...and more importantly today, the type of per­son who's in bed with the Levan/Tucker team.

Lightning Party partisan "Publius," More...

...and, of equal import, who they're in bed with.

Remember Hank Tucker's pledge to... More...

Updated 06/18/2009 – 07:56 pm

...or as it's known today, The Southampton Press Western Edition.

(My, but The Hampton Chronicle was a grand old name!) More...

Originally intended as a Comment to OtBB, it was too long to post as such and too rich with insight to dismiss.

Much has been made by the Levan/Tucker campaign of the Police Chief's salary and what was incorrectly referred to as "accumulated overtime" in their campaign letter of June 12.

What they should have said was "accumulated comp time." More...

...or, why Arnie Scheiffer is a schmuck! More...

This was briefly considered as a sur-Comment to the pseudonymous "Publius" on 27East ("Political advertisement causes a stir in West­hampton Beach"), but I decided to not vary personal policy and stay in my own backyard. More...

...predicts future behavior, and after reviewing the intellectual dishonesty of their "What we've done" campaign, let's drop the other shoe and examine the "What We Will Do" part. More...

The first Lightning Party campaign letter of 2009 hit Village mailboxes yesterday, and as predicted here, their primary thrust is brandishing the eruv at everyone.

(Any within 11978 who didn't receive one of those letters now have a better idea of just who Joan Levan and Hank Tucker feel they represent.) More...

It wasn't the way I would have liked it to have turned out, but it was a hard-fought game and the Pitts­burghs out played the Detroits to win the last two game of the Stanley Cup Finals.

Congratulations to the Penguins!

...we're going to be seeing a lot more of our favorite mail gal, the talented Elizabeth Duer­schmidt this Summer than just her annual appearance at the Mary O. Fritchie Greater Westhampton Outdoor Art Show the first weekend in August.

Starting next Saturday, Lizzie will be hung More...

Next Friday's Village election isn't about the Police Chief's compensation... that's simply eyewash to detract from the real issue for the Levan-Tucker supporters, many of whom con­sider $150,000 "chump change." More...

We note with sadness the loss of two ladies whose obituaries appeared in this week's Southampton Press. More...

Anyone doubt that Connie Teller is irate?

Look at the half-page advertisement More...

A closer reading of 27East's "Political adver­tise­ment causes a stir in Westhampton Beach" seems to reveal what may be a key element of the murky payment for the space taken on page A9. More...

...or as a certain wag on Windmill Lane has dubbed it: "Checkgate."

"What check?," you ask? This check. More...

More importantly, what did Planning Board Chairman Ralph Neubauer, the increasingly less covert political operative of the Joan Levan/Hank Tucker team, mean by it in another of his recent promiscuous E-mails?

Here's the context: More...

Following up this morning's blog entry about the First Hampton Party's questionable adver­tisement in the current Southampton Press Western Edition, it has been learned More...

...of the current week's Southampton Press Western Edition.

There's a great deal more to the political ad­vertisement than appears at first glance, start­ing with More...

...and that is Royal Pains, cable USA's new series about "The Hamptons" which debuted last Thursday. More...