Hampton Bays News

At 44, Laureen Gerzack is finally learning how to accept help from other people, not give it.

Superintendent Dr. J. Richard Boyes was recognized for his commitment to the Tobacco-Free Healthy Schools Project at the November 3 Board of Education meeting.

Third-grader Genesis Camacho, sixth-grader Erick Quintanilla and high school junior Stephanie Brenes each earned Student of the Month honors for October from the Hampton Bays School District.

Recently, the Southampton Business Alliance Housing Initiative undertook a big project to create more affordable housing in Southampton Town.

Avon Court in Westhampton Beach was lined with cars Saturday morning as friends, family and volunteers huddled inside a new house tucked away at the end of the street, all awaiting the arrival of Cathy Strand-O'Shea. Ms.

A lot of business owners are raising objections to any changes in Southampton Town's current outdoor lighting code.

Southampton Town is close to sealing a deal with the Southampton Animal Shelter foundation to handover the reigns of the animal shelter.

The defense attorney representing Jermaine Holmes, the Northampton man charged with fatally stabbing 26-year-old Calvin Butts ofJermaine Holmes outside Southampton Town Justice Court on the day of his arraignment.Photos by Dana ShawBy Vera Chinese and Will James

Despite a proposed 11.2-percent tax increase in East Hampton Town's proposed $72.1 million budget for 2010, most who spoke up at a budget hearing before the Town Board on Thursday, November 5, were more upset that funding for a wide range of community organizations has been eliminated.

The defense attorney representing Jermaine Holmes, the Northampton man charged with fatally stabbing 26-year-old Calvin Butts of Riverside outside the Hampton Bays Diner over Memorial Day weekend, said witnesses have been reluctant to come forward to describe the fatal encounter.

Because of early deadlines for the Thanksgiving holiday issue, please get your news to me by Friday, November 20.

Gilda Rojas, 20, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child after the incident Friday night, Southampton police said.

When seventh-graders in Kathleen Colihan's public speaking class at Hampton Bays Middle School started their unit on animal shelters last month, they had no idea their own Southampton Town Animal Shelter was in trouble.

On August 13, 1919, the legendary racehorse Man O' War suffered the only defeat of his illustrious career, shocking the crowd at Saratoga racetrack that had made him the huge favorite.

A Water Mill man was charged with DWI on Halloween night after Southampton Town Police said he lost control of his car and hit a tree in Southampton.

For the first time in its nearly 10-year history, the Wildlife Rescue Center of the Hamptons in Hampton Bays is expected to end the year with a deficit, and the shortage could force the organization to make concessions in its treatment and rehabilitation of wild animals.

Friends and neighbors, clergy and town dignitaries are invited to attend Veterans Day services on Wednesday, November 11, at 10:30 a.m., at the Hand-Aldrich Post 924 of the American Legion on Ponquogue Avenue.

The Hampton Bays Parent Teacher Organization will meet on Thursday, November 5, at 7 p.m., at the middle school on Ponquogue Avenue in Hampton Bays.

Ruben G. Soyos, 23, of Riverside was arrested by New York State Police on October 19 on County Road 104 in Riverside and charged with DWI.

A waiter who worked at the Southampton bar where bouncer Andrew Reister was choked last year testified Friday that he tried with all his might to pull off the man who he said had his right arm around Reister's neck.