Off the record, on the QT in WHB, and very hush-hush…
For some reason, the reports earlier this month about citizens exercising their Second Amendment rights in proximity to President Barack Obama, attracted some strong Comments by OtBB regulars.
I have my own views on the subject, of course, but I am more interested in the panoply of response and debate. More...
I once thought that my formative years as an "Army brat" gave me a fairly broad education: 44 states before I was 12 years old, living in Florida, three locations in Virginia, Kansas, Washington State and two places in Michigan.
I have nothing on my peripatetic daughter, however. More...
...or perhaps a little foolish?
Remember the flurry of pre-election activity by the First Hampton Lightning Party in the run-up to this June's Village election? More...
Whoever you put your trust in, it shouldn't be MSNBC, the 24-hour cable news channel jointly owned by Microsoft and NBC Universal.
In witness whereof is offered these clips from YouTube: More...
...arrived in my (snail) mailbox yesterday, and I don't know quite what to make of it.
The content of the letter itself is More...
It was hot and muggy, and before it was over, it got hotter for Cablevision's Joan Gilroy.
Westhampton Beach is still engaging Black Sheep Television to videotape and produce a broadcast-ready product... which is still not being broadcast. More...
...Shock could be bad!
These are less than an hour old at this posting, and midday Wednesday or not, this is nothing less than outrageous! More...
Great start with an excellent Leo Kottke concert at WHB PAC... yeah, I know it's not the type of big name entertainer that generates the big buck sponsorship the Center needs, but wow!, he was terrific! More...
Updated 08/27/2009 – 12:45 pm
When OtBB uncovered the unlicensed commercial lodging then Deputy Mayor Jim Kametler's wife was operating at 24 Oak Street, there was considerable comment on the 27East report of the "scoop."
One, with the nom de 'Net "wow," posted: More...
...how Chester Morris' appointment to the Village Board reckoned the course of Westhampton Beach, possibly for decades to come.
Chester, a family friend my entire life... his mother Winnie worked for my paternal grandmother and my Mom annually engaged his sister Julia to make her special Apple Brown Betty for all my single digit birthdays from age four. More...
Updated 08/19/2009 – 06:51 pm
...about Bridget Fleming, Democratic Candidate for Southampton Town Board this November.
Imagine OtBB's surprise at seeing a detour on Library Avenue today!
The real surprise was where the Suffolk County Water Authority was directing traffic attempting to pass the construction site of the Westhampton Free Library. More...
...in the sense that none of the disruptive Right Wing extremists who turned Tim Bishop's previous Town Hall meeting into a verbal free-or-all were supposed to know about it.
Oops! More...
Updated 08/17/2009 – 05:38 pm
Or, cat fight across Weixelbaum's Alley!
I've never been quite sure of the origins of this ever-simmering, estrogen-laden acrimony between the ladies Finley and Richman, but this weekend it again achieved the level of competing Police Reports. More...
...or, Plugola.
Two of our locals seem to have been studying Jay Levinson's Guerrilla Marketing series of books, with efforts directed at OtBB. More...
...and discovered it was the day of the Feast of the Sacred Virgin.
I immediately informed my wife of this fact and a large "wtf?!?" thought balloon popped up over her head. More...
Updated 08/13/2009 – 05:01 pm
There appears, deep (A14) within the pages of today's Southampton Press Western Edition, a Letter to the Editor bearing a name not seen or heard hereabouts o'er the past 20 years.
It's brief, so brief that it is hand-transcribed hereinunder: More...
Updated 08/12/2009 – 01:14 pm
...at that weekend in 1969?
I wasn't, and for good reason....
(Hint: think "Mike Battle!") More...
...in the rain.
It was good. More...
...or, as as us younger ones knew him, Teddy or Ted, as in Theodore Brigham Conklin, Jr.
(I never got the "Bobby" thing, but that's how my Mom and her bridge table biddies... all of whom knew him a lot longer than did I... always referred to him!) More...
Updated 08/07/2009 – 05:25 pm
The big story of tonight's Westhampton Beach Village Board meeting was that the Village Attorney and the Building Inspector both strongly advised the Village Board to do something, and the Trustees to a one, declined.
For his part, Mayor Conrad Teller listened to the Village's two highest paid retainers, and cast the lone dissenting vote. More...
Updated 08/06/2009 – 04:51 pm
We... as in all of us... lost a great one yesterday afternoon with the passing of Quiogue's resident man of letters, Budd Schulberg, at 95. More...
First there was last weekend's sensational paragraphs and mugshot on 27East.com1 about a woman with an "assault2 weapon" arrested for taking photos at Gabreski Airport.
How sensational was it? More...
Clearly rankled by the on-going public relations siege against them by the Westhampton Cemetery Association, the Southampton Town Trustees got some measure of satisfaction yesterday when Association representatives came before them and again attempted to obtain approval for a "land swap" which would allow all cemetery lands to remain contiguous. More...
Being a continuation of Healthcare... in a Comment by Mr. Overton and Response by Mrs. Speir format.
"One of my greatest concerns with the health care debate in this country are comments like our 'health care is DOA.' More...
It's good to be a Trustee re-elected by a near 2-1 margin... now Joan Levan can do on Main Street in the middle of the busiest Saturday of the year, what she routinely does in the Village Hall parking lot any ol' time she pleases. More...
