Southampton Town board lifts ban on clotheslines (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

NEW YORK — Southampton Town board members who had drawn the line at hanging clothes outside to dry are cutting residents some slack: It’s OK for them to use clotheslines now. The board has lifted a ban on clotheslines that had stood since 2002, when some homeowners complained the laundry on their neighbors’ lawns was making the tony Hamptons town look shabby. But no one objected when the …