The Ladies Village Improvement Society, whose website tagline reads, "Keeping East Hampton beautiful since 1895," will have a new executive director, Rachel Cooper, starting Jan. 1.
Suffolk County Had the Driest Fall on Record
Rain on Thursday notwithstanding, an unusually dry fall season persists statewide, raising concerns about fire and impact on crops. Last month, the county had only .23 inches of rainfall, just off the record low for October precipitation, and even with rain on Thursday, more than 99 percent of the county was considered to be in "severe drought."
November 21, 2024
Police & Courts
The Southampton Town Police Department will run a Civilian Police Academy, which will teach residents about department operations, starting on Jan. 16 at 6 p.m.
Nov 21, 2024
East Hampton and Amagansett firefighters volunteered to head north last week to help fight a 5,000-acre wildfire in Orange County, N.Y., not once but twice, battling unfamiliar terrain to do so. “They fight fires completely differently than we do when we have a brush fire,” the Amagansett chief said.
Nov 21, 2024
“It could have gone worse. We’re lucky that I have officers here that weren’t shot,” said Police Chief Jeff Erickson at Friday’s East Hampton Village Board meeting. Chief Erickson was recognizing Sgt. Wayne Gauger and Officers John Clark and Robbie Greene for a traffic stop on Aug. 31 that turned into a scuffle and the eventual confiscation of an illegal gun.
Nov 21, 2024
East Hampton Senior Center Is a Go
The East Hampton Town Board formally decided Tuesday that a proposed senior citizens center on a seven-acre parcel at 403 Abraham’s Path in Amagansett would have little environmental impact and did not need a lengthy environmental review.
Nov 21, 2024
Town to Cut Maximum House Size in Half
The East Hampton Town Board dropped a surprise into another lengthy discussion of proposed zoning code amendments in the wake of a well-attended public hearing on Nov. 7. The board agreed on most amendments as written; however, in a straw poll, four members voted against a measure that would include a portion of basements in the gross floor calculation of residences.
Nov 21, 2024
Government
With a large inflatable rat in tow, a group from the Laborers Local 66 union has been stationed this week outside the Montauk Playhouse Community Center, where new aquatic and cultural centers are under construction, with signs calling out the architects and general contractors on the project.
Nov 21, 2024
Debate over the addition of an area for small dogs at the Springs Park continued this week as the park committee met to discuss recommended changes that also include removal of invasive species.
Nov 21, 2024
Design work has yet to begin on a new lighting plan for downtown Amagansett, where large trees line Main Street and sometimes block light, but the East Hampton Town Board appeared happy Tuesday with a preliminary study by L.K. McLean Associates, the project engineers.
Nov 21, 2024
The westernmost grass field at the Stephen Hand’s Path Recreational Facility will be converted to a multiuse artificial turf field in January, with work to be completed possibly by Memorial Day, depending on weather. Councilman David Lys and Matt Jedlicka, an engineer at L.K. McLean Associates, gave a presentation on the project to the town board at a meeting on Tuesday.
Nov 21, 2024
Arts
A Celebration of David Geiser
Jake Ruehl has organized a one-night celebration of the artwork of David Geiser, his father, who died four years ago in Springs.
Nov 28, 2024
New workshops at the Women's Art Center, nature and sports cars at the White Room, 144 artists at Tripoli Gallery, group show at LTV.
Nov 28, 2024
Jaime Lopez has had a successful career as a fashion photographer and, more recently, a fine art photographer whose subjects have ranged from landscapes to artists to rustic metal tools.
Nov 28, 2024
LTV Studios will present a staged reading of "Scenes of Mirth and Marriage" with Mercedes Ruehl and Harris Yulin, and a comedy about five couples' sex lives.
Nov 28, 2024
Villages
Health Care at Home Is an Emerging Need
When it comes to at-home care on the East End, those who need help are finding it, well, hard to find. Factors like long driving distances to reach clients and a perceived lack of competitive wages for aides make the home nursing field challenging to navigate from both perspectives.
Bingo Games to Continue, Minus the Money
When she heard that other municipalities had ceased holding Bingo games with money on the line, Diane Patrizio, East Hampton Town's director of human services, decided to check on East Hampton's own license to conduct the game at its senior center. She discovered that the license had expired.
Hamptons Pride Hosts Quilt Display for AIDS Day at Presbyterian Church
“One of the things that I struggle with is people saying the AIDS crisis is a thing of the past, as if the time to remember is something for the past,” said Tom House, the founder of Hamptons Pride, which is bringing quilts from the National AIDS Memorial to the East Hampton Presbyterian Church next week.
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Nov 21, 2024
