5 Local Voices You Need to Hear

Several members of the East Hampton community blog on Patch's Local Voices. Here are just five of them, but we invite you to check out all of them.

1. , a father of four school-age children, brought us the news last week that after 16 years. Lynch owns a media company specializing in professional web video and he made his first full-length documentary called, "King of the Hamptons."

2. Candidate for East Hampton Town Trustee is the first local political contenders to blog on East Hampton Patch. Klughers, who is close to completing her masters degree in Marine Conservation and Policy from Stony Brook University, is particularly interested in the environment. In her first blog, posted last week, she shared her ideas on the and public policy.

3. , a Springs resident, likes to write about the people and programs in East Hampton that make this a sustainable community. Last week, he introduced us to Roger, the resident DJ at the . Since Roger also sings, Pettersen asked him to give our readers a sample on video, a great tool for all our bloggers.

4. , a surfer, meditator, and stand-up paddleboard instructor, reminds our readers of ways to get back to nature. On one paddling trip this summer, she even came across a on Georgica.

5. blogs from Montauk. She has shared her anguish over whether to leave in the face of and her love of .

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