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By Michael WrightStony Brook Southampton Hospital on Wednesday announced that it has hired a new chief administrative officer, Emily Mastaler, after a lengthy search to replace Robert Chaloner, who was the hospital’s top administrator for 16 years b

By Joseph Shaw After more than 16 years at the helm of what is now Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, Robert Chaloner put in his last day in the office on Wednesday, June 21. Starting July 1, Dr. Fredric Weinbaum, who headed up the hospital’s medical

What’s Going On? It’s time to ask the question directly: What is going on with the State Department of Environmental Conservation and its steadfast refusal to get out of bed with sand mines on the South Fork? It’s gone from confusing to baffling to a

Learn the Law A huge hurdle to enforcing the New York State Open Meetings Law is that when a governing body, land-use board or committee unlawfully meets in private, how would anyone know they broke the law? There are violations of Open Meetings Law

A Warm Place South Fork winters blend gently into spring, so much so that it can be hard to tell the two seasons apart as they transition. Despite the sunny days and moderate afternoon temperatures in the early days of April, on four days this month,

Time To Grow There is a point when “quaint” becomes the enemy of real, necessary progress. Protecting the things that make a neighborhood unique and special is worthy work, but not when it runs head-on into efforts to keep that same neighborhood aliv

A Broken System It was, Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. readily acknowledges, mostly a symbolic gesture — his trio of bills seeking to update New York State’s school funding formula and to boost the amount of foundation aid for some school districts f

Our Mortal Peril Living in a time when the ongoing effect of humankind on the Planet Earth is part of the international conversation, nearly on a daily basis, it’s hard to imagine a time when it seemed necessary to set aside an entire day for America

Money Well Spent It’s a long shot at this point, but there’s a proposal stuck in the gears of state government that offers a glimmer of hope for an industry facing enormous, and in some cases existential, pressures — journalism. New York’s Local Jour

Not for Us Over lunch in Southampton Village, a cordial but pointed conversation took place last week — and there is reason to be optimistic that an important message was delivered straight to Governor Kathy Hochul in Albany. To the governor’s credi