Off the record, on the QT in WHB, and very hush-hush…
...with the County, and it's something Bob Stevens could've used in the heyday of his appliance store on the edge of Gabreski Airport.
Few likely connected two items in the current Southampton Press Western Edition, because one was three columns with a color photo on the lower left of the front page, and the other was a single, unillustrated column on page A3. More...
This just in from our friends at Bridgehampton National Bank:
"Dear Valued Customer!
BNB SERVES UP A FREE BBQ LUNCH
TO CUSTOMERS ON JULY 3"
Or at least I thought they were our friends 'til I read the rest of the message... More...
"New York is a place where you can do whatever you want to do. The government should get out of your personal life." – NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg
Right!
This from the man who, among other things, has proposed a citywide prohibition on food service establishments selling sweetened beverages larger than 16 ounces.
My old friend Ti Rouge who lives on the Internet she was once terrified of, forwarded me this yesterday:
"When you have a chance can you use your investigative skills to find out if this link from DrudgeReport.com is real."
The Drudge link led to something called "Weasel Zippers," sub-titled: "scouring the bowels of the internet." More...
...courtesy of her son Marcus, a 1998 letter to Hampton Chronicle-News [sigh!] Editor W. Michael Pitcher, authored by the blogger, well before there was a blog.
(It must be noted that paragraph three falls under the heading of: Had I known Then....) More...
The refrain from François Villon's celebrated "Ballade des dames du temps jadis" seems especially apt, for there are three of those ladies in the snapshot Pat Stinchi's son Marcus was gracious enough to forward this afternoon.
The time was December 1996, and the occasion More...
Updated 06/21/2012 – 12:45 pm
...have just left us and the Village is greatly diminished by their passing.
One of the very best resources of instutional knowledge of Westhampton Beach, Patricia Ann Stinchi, passed away Sunday afternoon at her home on Humphrey Lane following a brief battle with a terrible illness.
An intensely private person, Pat would have taken More...
...that Joan Levan called me at home and was all charming and sweet in that coquette-ish way she gets with any male under the age of 75?
The 'phone rang just after 6:00 pm, and the Caller ID displayed the name and number of "Marvin Levan."
Uh oh! More...
...certainly not the real people of Westhampton Beach, for Joan Levan's Lightning Party swept the Trustees' race this evening, leaving Mayor Conrad Teller a lonely voice at the head of Village Government.
Even Mr. Teller's uncontested run for reëlection was not exactly a strong vote of confidence, as he was returned to office with only 216 marks on Row A out of 369 total ballots cast. More...
...and can say with full and utter conviction, "No surprises here!"
Deputy Mayor Toni Jo Birk and Ralph Urban should need to be, respectively, re-elected and elected today when the polls are open in Village Hall between Noon and 9:00 pm. More...
Okay, everyone get today's mailing from the Lightning Party, the red and black sheet on white paper playing fast and loose with Deputy Mayor Toni Jo Birk's record and dragging Westhampton Beach Police Chief Ray Dean back into the frey?
Mrs. Birk is a big gal and by now a veteran of Village politics, so she doesn't need OtBB to respond to the obviously politically motivated charges spun by the challengers. More...
Updated 06/12/2012 – 03:49 pm
...has, with Westhampton Beach Elections just days away, resurfaced for fair as Trustee Candidate Charlie Palmer Jr., former Trustee Joan Levan and shady political operative Angelo de la Fuente have descended on Village Hall with a fistful of Freedom of Information Act requests.
Their objective? To discover some way that the Suffolk County Board of Election's denial of the Lightning Party's challenge to Toni Jo Birk's Nominating Petition might be appealed. More...
The Kings of Los Angeles are now the kings of the National Hockey League, having vanquished the New Jersey Devils in the Stanley Cup Finals, four games to two!
It is the ultimate achievement in professional hockey, and that the Kings are hoisting the Cup, is one of the top sports stories of 2012... Los Angeles was the eighth seed in the Western Conference, having clinched a play-off spot on the penultimate day of the season.
Live long the Kings... 'til one year from now when order is again restored to the NHL as the Detroit Red Wings reclaim Lord Stanley's Cup!
In this instance, it is the photograph which speaks for itself, and raises the question of why does Angelo dela Fuente, who lives in Speonk, institute himself in Westhampton Beach politics every year?
And what nefarious schemes are Empress of Oneck Joan Levan and Señor dela Fuente hatching for this year's Village election on Friday?
This will be the first of the past eleven Sunday evenings that there won't be a new episode of "Game of Thrones" on cable HBO, and I for one am glad for the respite so that I can better reflect what Season Two has wrought.
Although I awaited with increasing impatience for the series to return in April, when it appeared it didn't have the "bang" that Season One did... right up until its final ten minutes.
Which is ironic, because the very first ten minutes of More...
Uncommonly short session this evening considering there's but eight days 'til the 2012 Village Elections.
All this year's candidates were in attendance, but no one had anything to say... except Mayor Conrad Teller in the course of conducting the meeting, and Deputy Mayor Toni Jo Birk in respect to reading resolutions and signaling in the affirmative as the vote was called. More...
With the annual Village Election a scant eight days away, we turn our attention to last month's Westhampton Beach School District Election, in which budgets passed and one former School Board member beat another for the seat left open by the retirement of Beecher Halsey.
The shocking headline on 27East this week reads:
Westhampton Beach Board Of Education Investigates Allegations of Illegal Electioneering
The gist of the report is that former School Board More...
...before I saw this news report:
Romney's private e-mail possibly hacked
"The website Gawker reported Tuesday that an anonymous hacker had signed into Romney's personal Hotmail account."
...but now quiet desperation has set in for the future of our troubled Nation! More...
If anyone thought that the Empress of Oneck had retired from the local political scene when she stepped down from the Village Board last year, it's not so much that "She's baaaaacccck!" as that she never went away.
So this morning's dispatch from the local Patch...
Board of Elections Denies Westhampton Beach Petition Challenge
...came as scant surprise. More...
Ahhhhhhhhhhh, Summertime, while not officially here 'til Wednesday, June 20th, but for those who come to the The Hamptons, and those who serve those who come to the The Hamptons, it's been here for the past ten days plus however many hours.
One of the things my wife likes best about "The Season," aside from being able to wriggle her fingers in the earth and making things grow, is that she can again dine on More...
...a catchy name, cf: "Jack the Ripper," "the Night Stalker," "the Angel of Death," "the Beltway Sniper," "the White Hispanic Neighborhood Vigilante," ad nauseum.
(Actually, the jury of public acceptance appears to have put the kibosh on the last one.)
The sensation-mongers can't quite decide on the appropriate tag for the lastest bit of gruesomeness, so More...
"'Mother may I go out to swim?'
Yes, my darling daughter,
Hang your clothes on a hickory limb,
But don't go near the water."
If you're headed for Rogers Beach this morning, be prepared to stay dry!
Same goes for Quantuck Beach Club, Lashley More...
...especially the quotables, like the 120 point black-letter headline in The Detroit Free Press of June 21, 1995:
UH OH!
The heavily-favored Red Wings had just lost a third More...
I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime, but the gutsy little New York left-hander just accomplished what no other Mets pitcher before him... not Tom Seaver, Jerry Koosman, Nolan Ryan, Jon Matlack, Ron Darling, Dwight Gooden, Sid Fernandez, David Cone, Frank Viola, Mike Hampton or Al Leiter... had ever done while wearing a Mets uniform!
Santana just pitched a no hitter, and he did it against the best hitting team in the National League!
