The Shinnecock Indian Nation said yesterday that it is open to allowing the Wyandanch School District to keep its Warriors team name if it removes its Native American imagery, but officials at the state Education Department said it’s too late for the district to procure an exemption.

Around 35 workers in the Riverhead Central School District’s transportation department came out in force at Tuesday’s school board meeting to publicly ask for pay raises to deal with the rising cost of living.

Ridership on the South Fork Commuter Connection trains-to-buses system has continued its gradual expansion in 2023, operators of Hampton Hopper buses told the East Hampton Town Board this week.

Next Tuesday, May 16, Sag Harbor School District voters will be asked to approve a budget of $48,063,027 for the 2023-2024 school year that will increase the tax levy by 1.88 percent, which is among the lowest proposed levy increases on the East End, and is significantly below the district’s allowable tax cap.

Several Southampton Town residents came out to speak at a Town Board meeting this week, to express their opposition to an area in their neighborhood being considered as the site for a sewage treatment plant for Southampton Village’s proposed sewer district.

The Long Pond Greenbelt Nature Center in Bridgehampton hosts Sundays at Two: The Long Island Mammal Survey with Mike Bottini this Sunday, May 14 at 2 p.m. Launched in November 2022, the goals of this new conservation campaign led by Seatuck Environmental Association are to update the last mammal survey done here in the 1960s, educate Long Islanders about our native mammals, and lobby for changes in the NYS DEC’s hunting and trapping regulations.

If the Suffolk County Legislature acts expeditiously, voters this November will see a ballot proposal asking their approval on a sales tax increase of one-eighth of a penny, with the proceeds earmarked to fund clean water projects.