27Speaks

As far as Anita Fuellbier is concerned, Stage 4 lung cancer picked the wrong body. She is a fighter. She takes risks. She has fierce love for her two daughters, her job and her place in her community. And she is currently six months into her projected year and a half to live — though, following an experimental clinical trial, that timeline may have shifted. Anita joins the editor

New York State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. joins the editors on 27Speaks to discuss a range of issues, including the fate of the historic windmill on the Stony Brook Southampton campus, affordable housing initiatives, water quality, school aid and his last budget process before retiring.

John Reilly, a physician assistant from Shelter Island, spent the first half of March on a medical aid mission to Ukraine. As a volunteer with Global Care Force, for two weeks Reilly was part of a medical team that traveled to small towns and tiny villages, delivering routine health care to Ukrainian citizens in the midst of the war with Russia. The experience deeply affected him,

Rock Steady Boxing is a non-contact, boxing-inspired fitness program for people with Parkinson's disease to improve balance, gait and quality of life. Michelle Del Giorno, the owner of Epic Martial Arts in Sag Harbor and the head coach at Rock Steady Boxing Sag Harbor, joins the editors on the podcast to share how, over the past seven years, more than 250 students have passed throu

The first 2024 issue of The Express Magazine hits newsstands today. On this week's podcast, the editors and reporter Cailin Riley discuss the stories they worked on for this Home & Garden-themed issue.

To preserve both open space and the South Fork’s tradition of farming, East Hampton Town has made preserved farmland available to budding farmers at an affordable rate. Farmers Isabel Milligan and Nick Collins of Feathertop Farm and reporter Michael Wright join the editors on 27Speaks this week to discuss Feathertop Farm’s first growing season and the benefits of the town’s p

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently completed an $11 million project that widened the beach to protect Montauk properties from rising oceans. Dredging and dumping sand on beaches is expensive, and it’s only a temporary measure — but it remains the preferred strategy, despite the costs. This Express Sessions event on April 4 featured a discussion of beach nourishment, its

The Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center in Hampton Bays, the only wildlife hospital on Eastern Long Island, has a new executive director, Kathleen Mulcahy, the former mayor of Sag Harbor. Mulcahy joins the editors on 27Speaks this week along with rescue center board member Jane Gill and Director of Development Noelle Dunlop to talk about Mulcahy's new job there, the mission of

Giuseppe “Joe” Sciara, the namesake of Uncle Joe's Pizzeria in Hampton Bays, has sold his business — after more than half a century making pizza — to Tana Leigh Gerber and Scott Gerber of Hamptons Brands, who have reopened the Hampton Bays flagship location after an extensive renovation, rebranded a Wading Rover pizzeria as a second Uncle Joe's location and have plans to co

The Hampton Bays School District has partnered with Teachers Federal Credit Union to launch the Baymen Financial Center at Hampton Bays High School. The financial center on school property will provide students with access to an array of resources, including financial literacy, banking services for savings, deposits and withdrawals, and possible career pathways. Hampton Bays Superi