After the town board agreed to slash the maximum allowable house size from 20,000 to 10,000 square feet townwide, the board focused Tuesday on recommendations from the Planning Department to change a formula that would also reduce the maximum gross floor area of houses by tying that to the size of their lots.
Spotted Lanternfly Marches East
The spotted lanternfly, after making its first appearance on the South Fork last fall, continued its eastward march in 2024, with the fancy-looking insects showing up in every trap placed here by the Town of East Hampton.
December 5, 2024
Police & Courts
Carl Irace, a Sag Harbor Village Justice and local attorney who argued a case last month before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, has since been appointed to represent a defendant on federal charges involving a fentanyl-induced death.
Dec 5, 2024
Two drivers were taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital after recent accidents on local roads.
Dec 5, 2024
A caller reported a man “trying to give candy out of his trunk to kids” near the duck pond at the Nature Trail. Police spoke with the man, who said he keeps snacks in his car because he works for a family with children. While cleaning out the car, he said, he saw a child and thought it would be nice to offer him a snack. Police determined that he was “not attempting to lure anyone near his vehicle.”
Dec 5, 2024
How Would Community Housing Money Best Be Spent?
The East Hampton Town Board on Tuesday heard the first round of pitches for affordable housing projects angling for money generated by the half-percent community housing fund real estate transfer tax, which has produced more than $10 million since it went into effect in April 2023.
Dec 5, 2024
Dredging Is Set to Begin off Lazy Point
Several residents of the Lazy Point neighborhood on Napeague have voiced concerns at recent meetings of the East Hampton Town Trustees about a Suffolk County dredging project in the channel between Lazy Point and Hicks Island, arguing that widening the channel as proposed would allow water to rise and encroach even more on their houses.
Dec 5, 2024
Government
A management plan for a new pocket park in Amagansett, featuring recreation and meeting spaces, had a public hearing before the East Hampton Town Board on Nov. 21, with just one speaker offering thoughts on the proposal.
Dec 5, 2024
With the Republican Party winning the White House and both houses of Congress, local immigration attorneys and the nonprofit OLA of Eastern Long Island are preparing for major changes to immigration policy.
Nov 27, 2024
The town board tackled a quirky piece of legislation at last week’s work session, involving the temporary storage of prefabricated homes. The problem arises when trucks arrive with their oversize loads. They often sit idling, sometimes for hours, while they wait for a local builder to arrive to pick up the goods.
Nov 27, 2024
Construction work at a long-controversial nightclub on Three Mile Harbor Road was set to begin three months ago, at which point it became strikingly apparent that the building had no basement at all, as had been assumed during the planning process. Rather than being retained, it would have to be built. This created an issue: Is excavating a new basement an expansion of a nonconforming building?
Nov 27, 2024
Arts
Linda Reville Eisenberg: ‘Calm Amid the Clamor’
Linda Reville Eisenberg's still-life paintings, featured in her Guild Hall exhibition, celebrate simplicity while retaining elements fundamental to the genre.
Dec 12, 2024
With a talented cast and creative sound effects, "A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play" brings a 1940s radio studio to the Southampton Cultural Center.
Dec 12, 2024
Bay Street Theater's weekend will feature Judy Carmichael's piano virtuosity and a mockumentary film satire set mostly on the East End.
Dec 12, 2024
The Duchess Trio will bring their tight vocal harmonies to LTV, while "Scrooge . . . The Relapse" will summon Freud, Marx, and Charles Darwin to reform the miser.
Dec 12, 2024
Villages
Santafest Is Coming!
It’s not the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade yet, but what is now dubbed Santafest seems to be growing year by year in East Hampton Village. This year it will take place on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and the parade will feature its first grand marshal, John Ryan Sr.
Morton Airs Plans for Sag Harbor Properties
The real estate developer Jeremy Morton discussed his plans for the commercial buildings at 2 Main Street and 22 Long Island Avenue in Sag Harbor at a village planning board hearing on Nov. 26.
That Shark Fin in Town Pond? Billy Dunnit
Kirby Marcantonio doesn’t always read East magazine, but he happened to pick up the Thanksgiving issue last week. Flipping through the pages, he found an illustration that looked familiar: a shark flopping around in Town Pond.
Sports
Dec 5, 2024
