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One of the longest running summer east end events that has steadily grown for 79 years is the Shinnecock Indian Powwow. And it returns this Friday through Monday in Southampton. David J. Criblez reports in NEWSDAY that the Native American Shinnecock tribe has lived on an 800-acre reservation maintaining its traditions and culture for centuries. Annually, the Shinnecocks open their federally recognized reservation grounds just west of Southampton Village to the public for the Powwow.
"People feel educated and enlightened with good spirits from the Powwow. We are a race of people that has lasted for so long and we are still strong in our culture," says Powwow master of ceremonies Charles K. Smith II, of Southampton, former sachem of the Shinnecock Nation council. "There are always warm feelings at the Powwow among everybody. People enjoy the food, the arts and crafts, the dancing and the singing. It’s a joyful occasion."
Thousands of attendees gather on the Shinnecock territory to witness more than 35 tribes from across the country competing in dance and drum competitions, cooking homemade dishes and selling handmade goods. Tribes include the Chickasaw Nation from the Midwest, the Cherokee Tribe from North Carolina, the Seneca Nation from upstate New York, the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, the Narragansett Tribe from Rhode Island, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe from Massachusetts, the Pequot Nation from Connecticut, the Navajo Tribe from Arizona and many more gather at this weekend’s 79th ANNUAL SHINNECOCK INDIAN POWWOW.
WHEN/WHERE Friday August 29 from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday August 30 and 31 from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. and Monday September 1 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
At 100 Montauk Highway, Southampton
COST $20, $10 ages 5-12
MORE INFO 631-745-7391, shinnecock-nsn.gov
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A new committee created by the Riverhead school board will advise the district on community concerns and language access issues. Alek Lewis reports on RIVERHEADLOCAL.com that the district’s new Community Involvement and Language Access Advisory Committee will consist of 20 parents of students enrolled in Riverhead district schools, along with three school board members and two administrators. The committee will meet at least four times a year and make “solution-oriented” recommendations for consideration by the school board, according to the charter adopted by the board last week. “Amongst the concerns that the Committee will address includes, but is not limited to, access to student services and co-curricular programs and language access issues students and parents whose primary language is other than English are experiencing in school, and to develop recommendations to the Board to address such issues,” the charter states. Riverhead's Superintendent of Schools Robert Hagan said an application for committee membership will be published on the district’s website by the end of next week. Applicants must live within the school district, have at least one child attending district schools, and must have resided in the district for at least one year. Applications will be available in English and Spanish and translated into other languages upon request. According to state enrollment statistics for the 2023-24 school year, 38% of Riverhead’s students are English language learners, and 64% are Hispanic or Latino.
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As the face of downtown Riverhead is expected to dramatically change with the imminent construction of the Town Square, the East End Arts community Art & Music School is in the process of moving from its East Main Street campus to a temporary location at 206 Griffing Avenue, where it will stay while the construction is underway.
Beth Young reports in EAST END BEACON that the buildings at the East End Arts campus, which is owned by Riverhead Town, will be raised seven feet, out of the floodplain in concert with the Town Square construction, and the Carriage House, which contained the non-profit’s music studio, will be turned 90 degrees to face the interior of the campus.
East End Arts anticipates it will be using the Griffing Avenue location for at least three years, though it will also still be able to use its 133 East Main gallery and administrative space, which had been its headquarters since 1977, through next spring.
The temporary Arts & Music School, also owned by the town, is a brick office building adjacent to the new Riverhead Town Hall and shares a courtyard and entrance with Town Hall, on Second Street. EEA Executive Director Wendy Weiss envisions the courtyard as a space that can be augmented with public art and perhaps an outdoor piano.
The Town of Riverhead has recently resurfaced the concrete courtyard with a new pitch, to enable better access to the building for people with disabilities, and many of the practice rooms in the new building are accessible to people who may not be able to walk up stairs — a boon for the school’s Arts for All initiative.
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The Village of Southampton has enacted a two-week minimum for prospective renters seeking a getaway. Nicholas Grasso reports in NEWSDAY that an amendment to village code, which the board of trustees adopted earlier this month, restricts homeowners from handing over the keys to their rental properties for less than 14 days at a time.
The code change aligns the Village of Southampton with the Town of Southampton, the Town of East Hampton and other municipalities on Long Island.
It's also the "first effort" to address a "quality of life" concern villagers have expressed, especially since home rental sites like Airbnb bolstered the popularity of short-term rentals across the east end, said Southampton Village Trustee Roy Stevenson.
"Some of our residents found that their neighbors were renting out their houses basically every weekend to different people ... having parties," Stevenson told NEWSDAY last night. "The vast majority of villagers here in Southampton want to come out here and enjoy a nice, quiet ... environment. So I think we did the right thing."
Along with Stevenson, Village Mayor Bill Manger and trustees Robert Coburn and Leonard Zinnanti voted to adopt the new short-term rental policy. Trustee Edward Simioni cast the sole dissenting vote.
Stevenson said the new amendment, which allows homeowners to rent their home for one-week stays twice during the year, has been received positively among folks in town. As a business owner (Stevenson's Toys & Games in both Southampton and East Hampton), the trustee said he does not think the new restriction will affect the Southampton economy.
"You think there will be less people coming out because they can't rent for the weekend?" Stevenson said. "I don't know if that's true."
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Over the objections of several residents who showed up for a public hearing on the matter, the North Haven Village Board last Wednesday adopted a code change that will prohibit property owners from using either underwater land or land that extends under the street as part of their gross lot area when attempting to calculate how large a house they can build. Stephen J. Kotz reports on 27east.com that Mayor Chris Fiore said the board’s decision to move forward with the change had less to do with trying to regulate house sizes than with bringing the Village of North Haven into line with other municipalities in Suffolk County that don’t allow underwater land or under-street land to be included in lot area. He said it was not fair for those whose deeds include land that is below the mean water mark to benefit from what is essentially unusable property. And while he acknowledged that they still must pay taxes on the land, he suggested that they could successfully file a tax grievance and have their assessments reduced. Mayor Fiore said the board took up the issue at the request of its planning and zoning board chairs as well as on the advice of its attorney, Scott Middleton, and planning consultant, Billy Hajack. He added that North Haven Village officials had reviewed 25 different properties and found that most of them would lose very little in the way of building rights if their underwater land was excluded from size calculations. He said the village would begin a review of its floor area ratio law, which limits the size of a house to its lot size, next month.
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Travel costs will be slightly lower over Labor Day weekend 2025 than they were last year, according to the American Automobile Association (AAA).
John Valenti reports in NEWSDAY that domestic flights, hotels, gas and car rental prices are on average all down over the prior year, per AAA, citing booking data.
Round-trip flights are 6% lower, the auto club said. Hotel rates are 11% lower on average in the United States than they were a year ago, while gas prices are down an average of 37 cents per gallon and rental car rates have dropped about 3%, according to AAA.
But the AAA said anyone planning a last-minute road trip should keep in mind that the best departure time often is before lunch.
For Thursday, the best travel time will be before 1 p.m., while the worst figures to be between 1 p.m. and 8 p.m., according to the AAA.
On Friday, the best travel time will be before noon, while on Saturday it will be between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. On Sunday, you should plan to be on the road before 11 a.m., the AAA said, while on Monday the best advice is to get going before noon.
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In a 4-1 vote, with Trustee Ed Simioni casting the lone “no” vote, the Southampton Village Board passed new rental restrictions at its meeting last week, requiring a two-week minimum stay for home rentals. Cailin Riley reports on 27east.com that Southampton Village Mayor Bill Manger said the restrictions were proposed because several residents had complained about noise from short-term, weekend renters who were being loud late into the evening, while renting what amounted to “party houses.” Deputy Mayor Len Zinnanti said he had experienced that kind of disruption personally, living next to a house that was often rented for short periods or weekends, until the house was recently sold. He called it a “quality of life” issue.
Meanwhile, THE NY POST is characterizing the issue from a class warfare perspective. Brandon Cruz, Jennifer Gould and Alex Oliveira report in THE NY POST that “tony” Southampton has banned short-term home rentals after crabby locals complained that weekend warriors’ all-night “ragers” were keeping them up too late and making the ritzy beachside village unbearable. That means Hamptons trips — which already cost between $900 and $2,000 for a weekend stay — could now cost anything from $10,000 to $15,000 and up for a two-week rental. But Southampton Village Mayor Bill Manger tells THE NY POST that it’s short-term renters’ own fault for partying too hard and losing their weekend privileges…explaining locals have been calling cops with relentless noise complaints “every weekend” for months.
As reported on 27east.com, Manger said that residents would still not be required to obtain a rental permit. When Trustee Roy Stevenson asked how it would be enforced, Manger said that he spoke with Mayor Jerry Larsen of East Hampton Village, which has a similar restriction — Manger pointed out that Southampton Village was the only municipality on the East End without such restrictions — and that Larsen said that when the police receive a noise complaint, they inform the homeowners about the two-week minimum, and that typically does the job.
Trustee Simioni objected to the new restrictions on the grounds of taking away homeowner rights and also added he thought it would be difficult to enforce.
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By WLIW-FMOne of the longest running summer east end events that has steadily grown for 79 years is the Shinnecock Indian Powwow. And it returns this Friday through Monday in Southampton. David J. Criblez reports in NEWSDAY that the Native American Shinnecock tribe has lived on an 800-acre reservation maintaining its traditions and culture for centuries. Annually, the Shinnecocks open their federally recognized reservation grounds just west of Southampton Village to the public for the Powwow.
"People feel educated and enlightened with good spirits from the Powwow. We are a race of people that has lasted for so long and we are still strong in our culture," says Powwow master of ceremonies Charles K. Smith II, of Southampton, former sachem of the Shinnecock Nation council. "There are always warm feelings at the Powwow among everybody. People enjoy the food, the arts and crafts, the dancing and the singing. It’s a joyful occasion."
Thousands of attendees gather on the Shinnecock territory to witness more than 35 tribes from across the country competing in dance and drum competitions, cooking homemade dishes and selling handmade goods. Tribes include the Chickasaw Nation from the Midwest, the Cherokee Tribe from North Carolina, the Seneca Nation from upstate New York, the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, the Narragansett Tribe from Rhode Island, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe from Massachusetts, the Pequot Nation from Connecticut, the Navajo Tribe from Arizona and many more gather at this weekend’s 79th ANNUAL SHINNECOCK INDIAN POWWOW.
WHEN/WHERE Friday August 29 from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday August 30 and 31 from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. and Monday September 1 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
At 100 Montauk Highway, Southampton
COST $20, $10 ages 5-12
MORE INFO 631-745-7391, shinnecock-nsn.gov
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A new committee created by the Riverhead school board will advise the district on community concerns and language access issues. Alek Lewis reports on RIVERHEADLOCAL.com that the district’s new Community Involvement and Language Access Advisory Committee will consist of 20 parents of students enrolled in Riverhead district schools, along with three school board members and two administrators. The committee will meet at least four times a year and make “solution-oriented” recommendations for consideration by the school board, according to the charter adopted by the board last week. “Amongst the concerns that the Committee will address includes, but is not limited to, access to student services and co-curricular programs and language access issues students and parents whose primary language is other than English are experiencing in school, and to develop recommendations to the Board to address such issues,” the charter states. Riverhead's Superintendent of Schools Robert Hagan said an application for committee membership will be published on the district’s website by the end of next week. Applicants must live within the school district, have at least one child attending district schools, and must have resided in the district for at least one year. Applications will be available in English and Spanish and translated into other languages upon request. According to state enrollment statistics for the 2023-24 school year, 38% of Riverhead’s students are English language learners, and 64% are Hispanic or Latino.
***
As the face of downtown Riverhead is expected to dramatically change with the imminent construction of the Town Square, the East End Arts community Art & Music School is in the process of moving from its East Main Street campus to a temporary location at 206 Griffing Avenue, where it will stay while the construction is underway.
Beth Young reports in EAST END BEACON that the buildings at the East End Arts campus, which is owned by Riverhead Town, will be raised seven feet, out of the floodplain in concert with the Town Square construction, and the Carriage House, which contained the non-profit’s music studio, will be turned 90 degrees to face the interior of the campus.
East End Arts anticipates it will be using the Griffing Avenue location for at least three years, though it will also still be able to use its 133 East Main gallery and administrative space, which had been its headquarters since 1977, through next spring.
The temporary Arts & Music School, also owned by the town, is a brick office building adjacent to the new Riverhead Town Hall and shares a courtyard and entrance with Town Hall, on Second Street. EEA Executive Director Wendy Weiss envisions the courtyard as a space that can be augmented with public art and perhaps an outdoor piano.
The Town of Riverhead has recently resurfaced the concrete courtyard with a new pitch, to enable better access to the building for people with disabilities, and many of the practice rooms in the new building are accessible to people who may not be able to walk up stairs — a boon for the school’s Arts for All initiative.
***
The Village of Southampton has enacted a two-week minimum for prospective renters seeking a getaway. Nicholas Grasso reports in NEWSDAY that an amendment to village code, which the board of trustees adopted earlier this month, restricts homeowners from handing over the keys to their rental properties for less than 14 days at a time.
The code change aligns the Village of Southampton with the Town of Southampton, the Town of East Hampton and other municipalities on Long Island.
It's also the "first effort" to address a "quality of life" concern villagers have expressed, especially since home rental sites like Airbnb bolstered the popularity of short-term rentals across the east end, said Southampton Village Trustee Roy Stevenson.
"Some of our residents found that their neighbors were renting out their houses basically every weekend to different people ... having parties," Stevenson told NEWSDAY last night. "The vast majority of villagers here in Southampton want to come out here and enjoy a nice, quiet ... environment. So I think we did the right thing."
Along with Stevenson, Village Mayor Bill Manger and trustees Robert Coburn and Leonard Zinnanti voted to adopt the new short-term rental policy. Trustee Edward Simioni cast the sole dissenting vote.
Stevenson said the new amendment, which allows homeowners to rent their home for one-week stays twice during the year, has been received positively among folks in town. As a business owner (Stevenson's Toys & Games in both Southampton and East Hampton), the trustee said he does not think the new restriction will affect the Southampton economy.
"You think there will be less people coming out because they can't rent for the weekend?" Stevenson said. "I don't know if that's true."
***
Over the objections of several residents who showed up for a public hearing on the matter, the North Haven Village Board last Wednesday adopted a code change that will prohibit property owners from using either underwater land or land that extends under the street as part of their gross lot area when attempting to calculate how large a house they can build. Stephen J. Kotz reports on 27east.com that Mayor Chris Fiore said the board’s decision to move forward with the change had less to do with trying to regulate house sizes than with bringing the Village of North Haven into line with other municipalities in Suffolk County that don’t allow underwater land or under-street land to be included in lot area. He said it was not fair for those whose deeds include land that is below the mean water mark to benefit from what is essentially unusable property. And while he acknowledged that they still must pay taxes on the land, he suggested that they could successfully file a tax grievance and have their assessments reduced. Mayor Fiore said the board took up the issue at the request of its planning and zoning board chairs as well as on the advice of its attorney, Scott Middleton, and planning consultant, Billy Hajack. He added that North Haven Village officials had reviewed 25 different properties and found that most of them would lose very little in the way of building rights if their underwater land was excluded from size calculations. He said the village would begin a review of its floor area ratio law, which limits the size of a house to its lot size, next month.
***
Travel costs will be slightly lower over Labor Day weekend 2025 than they were last year, according to the American Automobile Association (AAA).
John Valenti reports in NEWSDAY that domestic flights, hotels, gas and car rental prices are on average all down over the prior year, per AAA, citing booking data.
Round-trip flights are 6% lower, the auto club said. Hotel rates are 11% lower on average in the United States than they were a year ago, while gas prices are down an average of 37 cents per gallon and rental car rates have dropped about 3%, according to AAA.
But the AAA said anyone planning a last-minute road trip should keep in mind that the best departure time often is before lunch.
For Thursday, the best travel time will be before 1 p.m., while the worst figures to be between 1 p.m. and 8 p.m., according to the AAA.
On Friday, the best travel time will be before noon, while on Saturday it will be between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. On Sunday, you should plan to be on the road before 11 a.m., the AAA said, while on Monday the best advice is to get going before noon.
***
In a 4-1 vote, with Trustee Ed Simioni casting the lone “no” vote, the Southampton Village Board passed new rental restrictions at its meeting last week, requiring a two-week minimum stay for home rentals. Cailin Riley reports on 27east.com that Southampton Village Mayor Bill Manger said the restrictions were proposed because several residents had complained about noise from short-term, weekend renters who were being loud late into the evening, while renting what amounted to “party houses.” Deputy Mayor Len Zinnanti said he had experienced that kind of disruption personally, living next to a house that was often rented for short periods or weekends, until the house was recently sold. He called it a “quality of life” issue.
Meanwhile, THE NY POST is characterizing the issue from a class warfare perspective. Brandon Cruz, Jennifer Gould and Alex Oliveira report in THE NY POST that “tony” Southampton has banned short-term home rentals after crabby locals complained that weekend warriors’ all-night “ragers” were keeping them up too late and making the ritzy beachside village unbearable. That means Hamptons trips — which already cost between $900 and $2,000 for a weekend stay — could now cost anything from $10,000 to $15,000 and up for a two-week rental. But Southampton Village Mayor Bill Manger tells THE NY POST that it’s short-term renters’ own fault for partying too hard and losing their weekend privileges…explaining locals have been calling cops with relentless noise complaints “every weekend” for months.
As reported on 27east.com, Manger said that residents would still not be required to obtain a rental permit. When Trustee Roy Stevenson asked how it would be enforced, Manger said that he spoke with Mayor Jerry Larsen of East Hampton Village, which has a similar restriction — Manger pointed out that Southampton Village was the only municipality on the East End without such restrictions — and that Larsen said that when the police receive a noise complaint, they inform the homeowners about the two-week minimum, and that typically does the job.
Trustee Simioni objected to the new restrictions on the grounds of taking away homeowner rights and also added he thought it would be difficult to enforce.