On The Beach Blog

Late story on the 27East site:

First Hampton Party candidates decline invitation to debate in Westhampton Beach

No surprises there More...

Passed the old Raynor's Garage site this af­ter­noon... that mound of presumably petro-polluted excavated soil is all but gone, and it's a safe bet that that's a load off of owner Oak­ley Gentry's mind... not to mention a chunk out of his exchequer. More...

From the current Southampton Press Western Edition, Westhampton Beach Trustee Toni-Jo Birk, explaining why she and running mate, Deputy Mayor James Kametler, chal­lenged Elyse Richman's nominating petition:

"People don’t realize that if you’re running as an elected official in [the] village, there are rules to be followed. You can’t make up rules."

Just so, Mrs. Birk, just so. More...

Deputy Mayor James Kametler, that is!

Once again, Jim's been caught with his mitt in the cookie jar, More...

A terrible typo, possibly the most horrendous in the his­tory of Eastern Long Island publish­ing, occurred on the front page of the January 6, 1982 Suffolk Life, and since the East End's most celebrated landmark has been in the news again, it's appropriate to revisit that notorious event. More...

...in the "Errata Log" last month when OtBB observed that Goldberg (in)Famous Deli's signs of disrespect were now down to one.

That was apparently a temporary dismounting of the one sign due to misadventure.

On a positive note, the (newer) rear window sign overlooking the parking lot has it right.

Progress seems to be being made.

...and everyone should know the rest of that.

Truth will out, Deputy Mayor James Kametl­er, breakfast served or not. More...

...Elyse is out and the eruv proposal has been shelved 'til after the Summer. More...

The Blogger was hors de combat for 17 hours, so time's-a-wastin'!

Waldbaum's

The former and much lamented National Store on Sunset Avenue in Westhampton Beach sud­denly displayed an "available" sign in its empty front window earlier this week. More...

...some help in getting the Gussie Meeker homestead, presently perched on beams on the edge of its site for the past 275+ years, from there to its "final resting place" adjacent to the Westhampton Beach Historial Society museum building at 101 Mill Road.

The Goldsteins would like it gone More...

...and in today's balloting, both the School Dis­trict and the Library budgets passed, but one member of the Westhampton Beach Board of Education will not be returning. More...

Lots happenin' 'round our Village this day... for the observant.

28 Library Avenue ...is a lot lighter after nine (count'em, 9!) trucks hauled away a sizable chunk of (presumably contaminated) soil More...

The Westhampton Beach Union Free{sic} School District is holding its annual budget vote today, as well as electing two Members to the Board of Education. More...

"...(w)hat I am hearing in my door-to-door campaign is that Teller is not getting any­thing done."

Yeah, the stumping candidate "hears" a lot on the campaign trail... More...

No big surprises with the filing of petitions at today's 5:00 pm deadline for the Friday, June 20th Village Election.

As expected, the three incumbents, More...

Fairly uneventful Zoning Board of Appeals session this evening, notable mostly for Andrew "Buddy" Mazzio finally obtaining a heavily conditioned approval for his "Finn McCool's" sign, erected without the necessary permit more than a year ago by the producers of Fox's Kitchen Nightmares.

And attorney James N. Hulme, of Kelly & Hulme, P.C., received his monthly spanking More...

...The Most Ill-Informed Statement to the Media This Year (local category) so far:

"The stores will all have to change to conform with Shabbat1."

Uttered before the WCBS Channel 2 news camera by former Westhampton Beach Code Enforcement Officer Tim Dahlen, More...

Remember Quoguemire.com with its dark, foreboding home page with stock photos of a police officer handing a driver a traffic citation and a male having his hands 'cuffed behind him? More...

During the current flap about the creation of an eruv chatzerot within the Village, Rabbi Marc Schneier has (wisely) kept an uncharac­teristically low profile, More...

Following up on Covered Up?..., E-mails and 'phone calls from area residents and passers-by over the past two days alerted OtBB to the possibility that there are bigger problems at 28 Library Avenue than have been previously reported. A correspondent relates:

"The caller who told you of the big petro smell near Raynor’s old garage is quite correct. More...

Residents of the Village who've never heard of the place are fearful that, with the establish­ment of an eruv chatzerot, Westhampton Beach will become "another Kiryas Joel."

Those who harbor such dread More...

From More of "The Story"...

"Robert A. Kelly, Jr., known to most as 'Gus,' serves as Westhampton Beach Village Justice. And while only his part­ner Jim Hulme appears before any Vill­age Boards, did someone say 'Conflict of Interest?'"

One who appears to More...

Which is not to equate Rabbi Marc Schneier with Darth Vader, but has anyone seen today's NY Post yet?

Hamptons' Edgy Holy War
Residents of a wealthy East End enclave are up in arms and living in fear that their tony way of life will be destroyed - all because of a quarter-inch strip of plastic.

And yeah, even with the "wealthy East End enclave" and "tony way of life" garbage designed to titillate the Gotham strap-hangers, they're talkin' 'bout us!

That which OtBB discussed ten days ago, ("Incomprehensible!") has come to pass, and it is only the first of other shoes to drop.

What's sad for the Village is that is was all so avoidable.

Wow! Nothing... well, scarcely anything... happened at the Monthly Planning Board meeting tonight!

Which, considering what's been happening at municipal board meetings of recent, More...

The question must be asked: what has Eastern Environmental Solutions been doing at 28 Library Avenue of late?

The parcel in question is private property, of course, site of the former Raynor's Garage but pres­ently under review by the Westhampton Beach Zoning Board of Appeals as the propos­ed temporary home of the Westhampton Free Library during their $7,827,820 "raze and re­build" project up the street. More...

...but certainly not un-newsworthy, were the uncommon activities at the Westhampton Beach Planning Board Work Session of April 28th.

It's not that The Southampton Press Western Edition didn't have anyone More...

It was, quite simply, the worst of Westhamp­ton Beach on display during a two-plus hour monthly Village Board meeting, and the "hot topic" was not the $25 million dollar Federal Civil Rights lawsuit by the Muchnicks, but the Hampton Synagogue's proposed eruv. More...

Updated 08/25/2008 - 2:23 am

Timing, it is said, is everything, and this has been especially true in the initial stages of Westhampton Beach Asso­ci­ates LLC's $25 million 1983 Federal Civil Rights Action against the Incorporated Village of Westhamp­ton Beach and eighteen named individuals. More...