Author: Beth Young

Beth Young is an award-winning local journalist who has been covering the East End since the 1990s. She began her career at the Sag Harbor Express and has reported for the Southampton Press, the East Hampton Press and the Times/Review Media Group. She founded the East End Beacon website in 2013, and a print edition in 2017. Beth was born and raised on the North Fork. In her spare time, she tinkers with bicycles, tries not to drown in the Peconic Bay and hopes to grow the perfect tomato. You can send her a message at editor@eastendbeacon.com

Environment News

Surviving Sandy: If you go down in the flood it’ll be your fault

June 15, 2013July 1, 2013 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_623" align="alignnone" width="587"] Talking about climate change at Guild Hall.[/caption] It takes a lot to drag people off the beach in East Hampton on a perfect Saturday afternoon, so it's a pretty nice feat that The Hamptons Institute at Guild Hall managed to bring in about 50 people to a symposium discussion on climate change this afternoon. East Hampton astronomer Dava Sobel grilled three academics from Columbia University on

Opinion

Learning to love the Strawberry Festival

June 14, 2013June 12, 2014 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_582" align="alignnone" width="598"] This is the beginning of a Ray Bradbury novel.[/caption] I'm afraid of hulling night. I have to admit it and I'm very sorry to the Mattituck Lions Club and to all the people who love the Mattituck Strawberry Festival. I will learn to love this festival some day. You see, my fear of hulling night dates back to a time, a long time ago, in Mattituck,

Environment News

Algae bloom season starts; shellfish programs fighting back

June 13, 2013June 19, 2013 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_540" align="alignnone" width="600"] image courtesy Stony Brook University[/caption] Like swallows returning to Capistrano, every one of the last seven years the brown tide has come back to Shinnecock Bay, a large, shallow lagoon-like bay just south of Hampton Bays and the Shinnecock Indian Nation between the barrier beach of Dune Road and the mainland. This week, scientists at Stony Brook University's School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences reported that

Opinion

Oh, you live in a duck? Where is Flanders?

June 11, 2013November 11, 2013 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_531" align="alignnone" width="600"] Shannon Merker's Big Duck flag flies over Flanders today.[/caption] It's difficult to not have an inferiority complex when you live in Flanders. People in Riverhead think you're uptight about reminding everyone that you live in Southampton Town, and therefore in The Hamptons. People in The Hamptons spit the word Flanders as if they're hacking up a lung when you mention where you live at a cocktail

Arts Performing Arts

North Forkers to dance their butts off?

June 10, 2013July 5, 2013 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_511" align="alignnone" width="600"] Nile Rodgers wants YOU to dance! | publicity photo AFTEE[/caption] The East End has more than 1,000 registered non-profit organizations, and, despite the fact that they obviously can't make a profit, they need money to do their work. Music producer and New York native Nile Rodgers has had a long and legendary career that spanned his authoring of dance hits including "We Are Family" and "Good

Week in Pictures

This week in pictures: June 1—June 8

June 8, 2013July 1, 2013 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_503" align="alignnone" width="600"] Montauk Sunrise June 1[/caption] This week on the East End was punctuated by the usual early June sunshine and early summer traffic, dampened by a late week storm that washed the twin forks clean. The Beacon's week began on June 1 at Montauk Point and headed east to Louse Point, where a souped up bayman's Toyota was captured on film..er...er..on an SD card. In Sag Harbor's

In the World News

East End women like to be equal

June 8, 2013July 1, 2013 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_452" align="alignnone" width="599"] East End women rallied in Albany Tuesday | courtesy Jennifer Maertz[/caption] A consortium of East End women took a bus trip to Albany June 4 to rally in support of Governor Andrew Cuomo's new 10-point plan addressing women's rights. Among the highlights of the governor's proposal, announced on Tuesday, are pay equality, ending workplace harassment, ending discrimination against victims of domestic violence and codifying federal abortion

Arts Literature

Bookshelf: The View from Lazy Point

June 7, 2013June 13, 2013 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_435" align="alignnone" width="600"] This is the view from Lazy Point.[/caption] It's been more than a year since nature writer Carl Safina's "The View from Lazy Point" was published, but the cautionary tale of this book is haunting enough to deserve a second read. Mr. Safina, who lives on the peninsula in Amagansett at the entrance to Napeague Harbor that gives the book its name, has made a global name

Arts Visual Arts

Seeing Riverhead with fresh eyes

June 5, 2013June 10, 2013 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_373" align="alignnone" width="600"] Looking out on downtown Riverhead.[/caption] Wednesday was a typical morning in downtown Riverhead. Police and EMTs were bandaging up a motorcyclist who'd been struck at the corner of Roanoke Avenue and Main Street, in preparations to take him to the hospital, while further east on East Main Street, women who were walking alone heard the booming jeer of a catcalling street denizen asking them where they

Environment

Rainy day vegetables

June 3, 2013June 8, 2013 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_366" align="alignnone" width="600"] Garlic planted last fall is in good shape this time of year.[/caption] It's on rainy early June days that the East End's gardens begin to pop. Vegetable and flower plants that had been seedlings just days earlier react to the heat and moisture and rapidly become full-grown plants. But while you're waiting for the those little plants to become a salad, there's not much to do

News The Business Accelerator

Boat dreamin’ at the Greenport show

June 2, 2013June 10, 2013 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_362" align="alignnone" width="600"] Wilde Yacht Sales' Minor 27 at the Greenport Boat Show. My next boat.[/caption] I used to have a boat, but now I don't. She was a 24-foot Irwin sloop that I found in an advert on a website during the early days of the internet. She was 30 years old and already no one wanted her. I've heard this happens to women too. Yikes. I made