🌱 Southampton Daily: Investment Advisor Fraud + Vaccine Clinics

Hey, Southampton! Let's get you started this Thursday with everything you need to know going on today in Southampton.

An investment advisory firm founder was arrested Monday in Southampton for taking $1 million from clients. East Hampton is offering vaccine clinics, and a Southampton school will begin requiring student vaccinations.

First, today's weather:

Sun mixing with clouds. High: 40 Low: 31.

Here are the top stories today in Southampton:

1. The Southampton Press explains that the Ross School in Southampton will begin requiring students 12 years and older to be vaccinated against COVID-19. (27east.com)
2. East Hampton Town is adding more vaccination clinics to meet demand spurred by the omicron coronavirus variant. The clinics will run 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Dec. 28, Jan. 5, Jan. 19, and Jan. 24, and evening hours will be from 4 to 8 p.m. on Dec. 22 and Jan. 10. (East Hampton Star)
3. A Southampton man is accused misappropriating over $1 million from his investment advisory clients. Jeffrey Slothower is the founder of a Manhattan-based investment advisory firm, Battery Private. He was arrested Monday in Southampton. (27east.com)
4. Lisa Finn explains that Gov. Kathy Hochul signed new legislation to promote aquaculture. The new law permits kelp cultivation underwater in Gardiners and Peconic Bays on the East End. (Patch)

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Today in Southampton:

• In Process | Pawel Althamer, B. Bennett & M. Foster, James Ulmer, The Watermill Center, 5:30 p.m.
• Grades 4-8 Winter Concert, Tuckahoe Common School District, 6:30 p.m.
• Winter Concert, Southampton High School, 7 p.m.

From my notebook:

• Southampton High School senior Emmet Wetter won the 2021 Long Island Radio Broadcasting Thomas Cutinella Foundation Service Award. (Facebook)
• Southampton Animal Shelter Foundation found a rooster on Old Country Road in Eastport. (Facebook)

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