Hampton Bays, NY

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• Hampton Bays motel will no longer serve as homeless shelter

  used as a homeless shelter, with 20 families living there moved to longer-term housing by Sept. 30, Suffolk County and Southampton Town officials announced Tuesday.Hidden Cove Motel has been operated as a shelter since October 2011 by a White Plains nonprofit,   Read more »

• Hampton Bays student Luke Gustafson wins culinary competition, scholarship

  Arts Center in Riverhead on Tuesday.I treated the competition as if I were at work [as a line cook for Oaklands in Hampton Bays], said Gustafson, 18. I just did what I had to do and it felt good to be in the kitchen.Gustafson, who is also enrolled in Eastern   Read more »

• Dead humpback whale washes up in Hamptons

  group is working with local authorities on a plan for conducting a necropsy and removing a dead humpback whale from a Hampton Bays beach, the group's director said Wednesday.Robert DiGiovanni, senior biologist and director of the Riverhead Foundation for Marine   Read more »

• Shinnecocks protest clearing of land near reservation

  Nation on Tuesday are protesting the recent clearing of a tract of land between the tribe's Southampton reservation and Hampton Bays on what is considered sacred ancestral land. About 15 tribal members, including newly elected trustee chairman Daniel Collins,   Read more »

• Cops: Man arrested in stolen-car chase

  police said.His arraignment information was not immediately available.Garcia allegedly took a car on Union Street in Hampton Bays, and it was reported stolen at 8:22 p.m. Thursday, police said. Stony Brook University police on patrol on Montauk Highway near   Read more »

Around the web

• Around Southampton Town Hall: Hampton Bays Hamlet Study Environmental Study On Town Website

  changes to zoning, development plans and transportation options. Much of the EIS addresses comments from members of the Hampton Bays community, garnered at two public hearings in early 2011. Erosion Tax ExemptionsThe State Legislature this week approved a 12:01 PM from 27east.com Read more »

• Hidden Cove Homeless Shelter to Close This Fall

  Jay Schneiderman announced this week the planned closing of a homeless shelter located at the Hidden Cove Motel in Hampton Bays. According to a letter received Monday, June 10, from John O’Neill, Acting Commissioner of the Suffolk County Department of Social   from The Sag Harbor Express Read more »

• Southampton Town ZBA Delays Decision On Tiana Pines Application

  Southampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals has delayed ruling on whether to grant a variance that would legalize a Hampton Bays motel that has been illegally operating as an apartment complex for more than a decade. The board was poised to decide on the request   from 27east.com Read more »

• Southampton Hospital Opens Lab in Amagansett

  at 518 Montauk Highway, Suite 104, in Amagansett. Like similar satellite labs in East Hampton, Southampton and Hampton Bays, the new lab primarily will be used for outpatient blood and specimen collection. Increasing patient convenience is the primary motive   from 27east.com Read more »

• Softball Tournament Set For June 15 Will Benefit The Ronald McDonald House

  2013 Jessica Ricco and Miss Teen Long Island 2013 Lauren Doherty. Tickets are $10 each and can be purchased on the day of the event. Kids Stock the House is a student-run, all-volunteer organization founded by Donna Christina Oliverio of Hampton Bays.   from 27east.com Read more »