Brian Callahan, one of two men charged in 2013 in connection with a $96 million Ponzi scheme involving the Panoramic View resort, is among 1,499 people whose sentences were commuted by President Biden on Thursday. The United States Attorney's Office had called the incident "one of the largest Ponzi schemes in Long Island history."
It’s Official: East Hampton Senior Center Will Be Exempt
Despite concerns from one board member about setting an unwelcome precedent, the East Hampton Town Board voted three to one — with one recusal — to exempt the planned senior citizens center in Amagansett from local zoning and land-use regulations.
December 12, 2024
Police & Courts
Police went to Iacono’s Farm on Long Lane on the morning of Nov. 20 to investigate a theft of eggs. Apparently two people, whose identities were redacted, had taken three boxes of eggs from the honor box outside without paying. One of them agreed to pay $24 in restitution.
Dec 12, 2024
A single-car accident on Three Mile Harbor Road in Springs, in which a driver struck mailboxes and shrubs by the side of the road, led to an arrest on a charge of felony drunken driving on the night of Nov. 30.
Dec 12, 2024
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
2024 Beach Report Details Rescues, Crowds, and More
East Hampton lifeguards performed a record number of rescues, 226 total, during the 2024 season at town beaches, according to the town’s chief lifeguard, John Ryan Jr. Of that number, 202 rescues occurred at protected beaches, while 24 took place at unprotected beaches. Both of those numbers doubled from last year’s totals.
Dec 12, 2024
Springs General Store: A 2026 Reopening?
The Springs General Store has been shuttered since the end of the 2022 summer season, and while the new owners are getting closer to winning approvals for changes they plan, one of them, Daniel Bennett, confirmed via text last week that the store will remain closed for the summer of 2025.
Dec 12, 2024
Government
Upward of 50 people attended East Hampton Village’s first workshop as it prepares to update its comprehensive plan, filling nearly every chair in the Emergency Services Building. Familiar themes peppered the conversation: traffic congestion and speeding, lack of affordable housing, the departure of mom-and-pop shops, and the constant clatter of the landscaping and construction industries.
Dec 12, 2024
Mashashimuet Park could be getting a new entrance, Sag Harbor Village’s deputy mayor, Ed Haye, announced at Tuesday night’s village board meeting. It would be moved south of its current location, he said, onto the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, and could be folded into Suffolk County’s planned renovation to that road.
Dec 12, 2024
The East Hampton Town Board discussed on Tuesday the procedure for when members of the architectural review board or the zoning board of appeals must be absent from meetings and an alternate must be formally accepted into the process.
Dec 12, 2024
A Sag Harbor Village plan to connect two sewersheds to the wastewater treatment plant is moving ahead. The village accepted construction bids on the projects at a meeting on Nov. 19, and Aidan Corish of the village board expects the work to begin in early 2025.
Dec 12, 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
East Hampton’s Monogram Shop Jingles All the Way
It’s fitting that the winner of East Hampton’s first Holiday Spirit storefront-decorating contest should be a business known for having fascinating windows: The Monogram Shop on Newtown Lane has made national headlines not for its holiday décor but for the tally of political cup sales that, in election cycles past, has been a notoriously accurate predictor of presidential outcomes. The window cup count was wrong in November, but the window display in December is, according to a panel of judges, oh so right.
A Powerful Pitch Supports Food Pantry
Pitch Your Peers, a charitable effort launched here in 2023 by Brooke Bohnsack, has awarded a $35,000 grant to the Springs Food Pantry and a $10,000 grant to Project Most, the organization announced on Dec. 1.
Item of the Week: Ernestine Rose, Pioneering Librarian
Bridgehampton’s Ernestine Rose, an important figure in the history of the New York Public Library, championed preserving Black culture through the Schomburg Collection.
Sports
Dec 12, 2024
