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A Fire Island community is among the first in New York working to dissolve its fire district under a recently enacted state law that encourages government consolidation.

In his last time wielding the gavel, outgoing Ocean Beach Mayor Joseph Loeffler, Jr., offered a window into things to come by introducing the architect who will design the new ferry terminal during the village’s trustees meeting on June 12.

Beachgoers at Robert Moses State Park received quite a shock on Friday, June 25, when an 89-year-old pilot crash landed his single-engine airplane in the dunes.

As outrage over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill continues to grow, local officials maintain they are prepared to deal with any crude that could potentially enter area waters.

A delegation of federal officials toured the beach via helicopter on June 7 as part of the Fire Island to Montauk Point reformulation study project.

As the National Park Service continues to move forward with the process of adopting a new general management plan (GMP) for the beach, Fire Islanders will have additional opportunities to comment on four management alternative proposals at public hearings in the Fire Island Pines and Ocean Beach in August.

Voters in Ocean Beach and Saltaire elected new mayors and trustees for their respective villages in elections held on June 4 and May 28.

Dear Editor:

In an effort to compensate for the closure of the Woodhull School and community library this summer due to the construction projects scheduled to take place, the Fire Island School District’s Board of Education has entered into an agreement with the Suffolk Cooperative Library System for the months of July and August.

During these summer months, residents will be able to access the library collections housed at the Bay Shore – Brightwaters Library and the Islip Library. Residen
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Dear Editor:

I would like to thank all the registered voters who participated in the June 4 election. I feel very proud for the endorsement I received from the electorate. I know things are not going to be easy, but the new board and I look forward to the challenges of the next four years.

Thank you again,

Jim Mallott, Mayor-elect
Ocean Beach

Dear Editor:

First, I was very disappointed at the election results, both for myself and the village. Without naming names, let me first say that in the fall, promises of support were made to me, an independent candidate, which apparently were forgotten by March.  Although my decision to join forces with Gwen (Silver) and Steve (Einig) caused some consternation among the voters, it was clear to me by the end of March that certain promised support would not materialize, leaving me with an organi

Dear Editor:

The Ocean Beach Community Fund would like to express our condolences to the family of Mort Swinsky. He was a warm, generous man and helped us with fund raising for many years. We will hold him in our hearts as well as our thoughts and prayers.

With appreciation,
Ocean Beach Community Fund
Ocean Beach

One of the advantages, I’ve discovered, in having an English wife is the opportunity to visit her ancestral isle and root about first-hand among the classic film titles (mostly British, oddly enough) not available here on Region 1, NTSC, DVDs. (The United Kingdom, of course, uses the PAL system found in Europe, South Africa and Japan, all of which constitute DVD Region 2. And you thought Oceania had always been at war with East Asia.) Hereby a scattershot of some great, or at any rate interest

Ah. After 36 years I finally get to do this thing as a foreign correspondent. As I write I’m still in England, my long voyage home delayed by newfound family considerations concerning my newfound family, which means I’m marginally more out of touch with what’s been going on back on the strand than usual. Fortunately, my normally reliable sources tell me that little out of the reliably normal has transpired these past few weeks, and having nothing inspired enough to make up, I’m afraid th

It’s been almost a decade since my last article for the Fire Island News as “The Barefoot Realtor.” With great delight I have accepted Nicole’s invitation to reprise my column, which  will be devoted to catching up with where I have been living and working in the real estate world since my last column in 2002 and my thoughts and opinions on the current state of real estate on Fire Island and elsewhere.

Whew! With elections over and the summer officially here, I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for some fun.

Memorial Day weekend  kicked off when Winnie Grant threw a dinner party the best way she knew—20 guests at Flynn’s. An accident occurred at the Gurrera house and the Ocean Beach EMS team came quickly, aided by responders from the Ocean Bay Park fire department and police. Helen Gurrera joined the band Rich Mahogany on stage for several songs at the Sandbar in Ocean Beach and was asked to join them again when they played in Kismet. Doug Thomas celebrated his 39th birthday this spring and pla

Mort Swinsky, bond trader, art collector and Broadway producer died Saturday, June 19, of prostate cancer at Lenox Hill Hospital with his two daughters by his side.  He was 75.