{"id":457099,"date":"2026-09-08T10:46:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T10:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/457099\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T10:46:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T10:46:25","slug":"news-12-long-island-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/457099\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Long Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">An East End beach was vandalized over Labor Day Weekend.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Lifeguard stands at Foster Memorial Long Beach on Noyack-Long Beach Road in Sag Harbor were flipped over and pushed into the water.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Southampton Town Parks and Recreation Department says lifeguards discovered the incident after arriving for duty Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to park officials, this is not the first time this beach has seen vandalism this summer, with the stands also being found with writing on them on prior occasions.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The town\u2019s limited holiday staff had to be diverted to the location to help rectify the situation and get the beach open for residents.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cThis is not the way they should have to end a summer of hard work and dedication to keeping the beach safe,\u201d the parks department said in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It is unclear how much damage was done to the stands at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An East End beach was vandalized over Labor Day Weekend. Lifeguard stands at Foster Memorial Long Beach on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-457099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}