http://www.whbqt.info/ A regular Blog about what's really happening 'under the hood' in Westhampton Beach, NY -- stuff the Southampton Press Western Edition (The Hampton Chronicle was a grand old name) doesn't tell ya. en-US Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:53:21 GMT On The Beach Blog BP Blog 8.0 http://www.whbqt.info/template_permalink.asp?id=1079 http://www.whbqt.info/template_permalink.asp?id=1079 For thems what are interested, the official full-length video of last Thursday's Village Board Meeting, all uninterrupted 2:15:02 of it, is now the municipal Website.Someone might like to send the link to former Village Labor Attorney Vincent Toomey... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:18:48 GMT Blog http://www.whbqt.info/template_permalink.asp?id=1078 http://www.whbqt.info/template_permalink.asp?id=1078 Billy Hughes, who I've known for 25 years, is a stand-up guy... the highest compliment I know to pay someone.He's fought the Viet Cong, and he's lived it out with desperate hostage-taking gunmen here in Southampton Town. And last Summer he jumped from... Tue, 9 Mar 2010 21:19:54 GMT Blog http://www.whbqt.info/template_permalink.asp?id=1077 http://www.whbqt.info/template_permalink.asp?id=1077 ...is a passage read by Mayor Conrad Teller at last Thursday's monthly Village Board meeting which leaves the obstructionist Trustees with no place left to hide.(It is heard on video IV at 2:25.) [more]The Village's duly appointed Labor Counsel, Richard... Tue, 9 Mar 2010 03:59:24 GMT Blog http://www.whbqt.info/template_permalink.asp?id=1076 http://www.whbqt.info/template_permalink.asp?id=1076 ...missed a 5:55 minute video segment of last Thursday's monthly Village Board meeting.(The other segments are here.)Acrimonious, but some important information. Mon, 8 Mar 2010 16:04:08 GMT Blog http://www.whbqt.info/template_permalink.asp?id=1075 http://www.whbqt.info/template_permalink.asp?id=1075 Now that copies of Thursday evening's resolutions have been obtained under a Freedom of Information Request, and studied more closely, some questions arise.Have the Village Trustees declared Westhampton Beach a police state? [more]One would think so... Mon, 8 Mar 2010 03:14:27 GMT Blog http://www.whbqt.info/template_permalink.asp?id=1074 http://www.whbqt.info/template_permalink.asp?id=1074 ...and from this vantage point, it looks like it might have been ABC/Disney.The Statement from Rebecca Campbell, President and General Manager, WABC-TV posted at 8:44 pm, reads: [more]Weve made significant progress, and have reached an agreement in... Sun, 7 Mar 2010 23:25:54 GMT Blog http://www.whbqt.info/template_permalink.asp?id=1073 http://www.whbqt.info/template_permalink.asp?id=1073 It's the 11th hour and at this posting, neither Cablevision nor ABC/Disney has blinked.The cable folks, however, has been scrambling to provide its subscribers with alternatives to sitting in the familiar comfort of one's own home, watching on one's... Sun, 7 Mar 2010 18:58:38 GMT Blog http://www.whbqt.info/template_permalink.asp?id=1072 http://www.whbqt.info/template_permalink.asp?id=1072 Planning an Oscars party this evening?You're gonna need a satellite dish! [more]After a week of annoying and intrusive Cablevision messages blaming ABC/Disney for everything but the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, Disney struck back at midnight.This... Sun, 7 Mar 2010 12:50:22 GMT Blog http://www.whbqt.info/template_permalink.asp?id=1071 http://www.whbqt.info/template_permalink.asp?id=1071 ...and I don't wish to come off like an ersatz Andy Rooney... but is anyone else annoyed by You got it! as what seems to have become the standard response by restaurant service employees?I likely first became aware of it when Jeanne and I used to stop... Sun, 7 Mar 2010 07:18:46 GMT Blog http://www.whbqt.info/template_permalink.asp?id=1069 http://www.whbqt.info/template_permalink.asp?id=1069 Updated 03/08/2010 12:45 pmWhile all await Blacksheep Television's official record of last evening's Village Board Meeting, an enterprising local has come through for those not in attendance.The first hour of the two-hour plus session is now available... Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:21:01 GMT Blog