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By Stephen J. Kotz State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. this week decried the sorry state of the Stony Brook Southampton campus, charging that by failing to meet its stewardship commitment to the 80-acre site, Stony Brook University had become “the

New York State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. calls Stony Brook University "the biggest slumlord on the East End."

By Stephen J. Kotz Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. recently announced that he had reintroduced the Unmarked Burial Site Protection Act to safeguard unmarked burial grounds across New York State. The legislation, previously sponsored by former Assembl

Assemblymember Fred W. Thiele, Jr. has introduced another bill to protect unmarked graves and Indigenous burial grounds after Gov. Hochul vetoed the last one.

BY KITTY MERRILL The work on the Community Housing Fund didn’t end with the legislation’s passage on Election Day. In fact, according to State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr., now is the time for municipalities to truly bear down. Meeting last week w

The East End's Community Preservation Fund took in $160.78 million from January through November 2022, 17.6% less than the previous year.

The bill Hochul vetoed would have effectively granted tribal recognition to the Montauketts, who have been fighting for acknowledgement since the tribe lost a

Sign the Bill January 4, 2022, was an upsetting day for the staff and volunteers at the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center in Hampton Bays. A deer had been shot by a hunter just feet from our wildlife hospital — stray bullets tearing through the

In a dramatic come-from-behind victory, Shelter Island voters approved a Community Housing Fund referendum to pay for affordable housing projects.

UPDATE: Housing Fund Approved in Southampton, East Hampton Voters in Southampton and East Hampton towns approved the creation of a new fund to help boost the supply of affordable housing through a half-percent tax on most real estate sales. The Comm