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No Kings Rallies Planned Throughout the East End

June 12, 2025June 11, 2025 Beth Young

The Nationwide "No Kings" rallies planned throughout the country during the president's military parade in Washington, D.C. this Saturday will include a hefty contingent on the East End. Rallies are being planned in Riverhead, Orient, Hampton Bays, Sag Harbor, Southampton and East Hampton — organizers of the Riverhead rally said Tuesday that more than 700 people had already RSVP'd. "On June 14 — Flag Day — Donald Trump wants tanks in

Heather Lanza gave an overview of the town's Zoning Update.

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Big Turnout for Initial Southold Zoning Update Forum

May 14, 2025July 12, 2025 Beth Young

The first public forum on Southold Town's new Zoning Update was the hottest ticket in Peconic Monday evening, May 12. Nearly 100 members of the community turned out to give feedback on a long-anticipated project to completely overhaul a code that has been updated on a piecemeal basis over the last 50 years. Pictured Above: Southold Town Planning Director Heather Lanza gave an overview of the town's Zoning Update at

Hurricane Helene on Sept. 26 |. GOES-16 satellite photo, CSU/CIRA & NOAA

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Climate Local Now: What on Earth is Going On?

November 9, 2024November 11, 2024 East End Beacon

by Mark Haubner Symptoms News of devastating floods in Asheville, North Carolina, on the heels of a Hurricane Helene, which had barreled hundreds of miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico, caught our attention and sympathy — for less than 2 weeks. Then Hurricane Milton spawned out of the same gulf, brought to life from zero to 180 in 24 hours over 82-degree waters, further spawning tornadoes that made things

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Election Results: Water Quality Restoration Act Passes, Projected Wins for LaLota, Schiavoni, Palumbo and Giglio

November 5, 2024November 9, 2024 Beth Young

The Suffolk County Water Quality Restoration Act was the biggest local winner of the night on Tuesday, passing with 71 percent of the vote, while incumbents are projected to be victorious in most local races. Unofficial tallies show Congressman Nick LaLota winning the race to retain his seat, and State Senator Anthony Palumbo and State Assemblywoman Jodi Giglio will return to Albany, while Tommy John Schiavoni has won the State

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Riverhead to Hold Comprehensive Plan Workshop

April 10, 2023April 10, 2023 Beth Young

Riverhead Town will be holding a public workshop on its Comprehensive Plan Update on Saturday, April 22 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., at the Suffolk Theater at 118 East Main Street in Riverhead. After two years of delays, the town terminated a contract with its former consultants working on the Comprehensive Plan Update, AKRF, in 2022, and in January of this year hired a new firm, BFJ Planning, to

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Opinion: The Beacon’s Fifth Birthday Looms

March 2, 2022March 2, 2022 Beth Young

Five years ago this month, as we began to hatch the idea to add this print edition to complement our news website, eastendbeacon.com, there were plenty of people who said we were crazy. Print was dead, they argued, and we didn’t really disagree. We picked April Fool’s Day for a launch date in anticipation of such heckling, and, we have to admit, we made just the splash we had anticipated.

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Composer’s Notes: And Now We Are Here

November 16, 2020November 16, 2020 George Cork Maul

Well. Now we are here. What does it mean and where do we go? We are still in the grip of a pandemic. Remember when it seemed like it would be over in two or three weeks? As the weather gets colder and the poor air quality and dryness are predicted to make things worse, will we actually have the information we need to tackle this thing and bring it

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Cutchogue Affordable Housing Pitched

October 23, 2020October 23, 2020 Beth Young

A plan to put 16 units of affordable housing on the site of the former Knights of Columbus Hall on Depot Lane in Cutchogue has neighbors seeing red, after the Southold Town Board held an Oct. 20 public hearing on whether to change the zoning of the property to allow affordable housing there. The two-acre lot, which currently includes a parking lot, a large backyard and a 3,500-square-foot building that

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Welcome to The Beacon!

June 1, 2013June 1, 2023 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_230" align="alignnone" width="600"] Montauk Point. June 1, 2013. b. young photo[/caption] Hello, and welcome to the East End Beacon. We hope the news here will always be fresh and interesting! It's easy to see the East End as a fractured assemblage of social stratum gone amuck. There's the jet set crowd and the helicopter-hater crowd, the North Fork and the South, those of us whose families go back generations