May 17, 2013
Starting July 1 all dogs on East Hampton Village beaches will have to be kept on leashes while they are within 300 feet of parking lots and road ends.
Starting July 1 all dogs on East Hampton Village beaches will have to be kept on leashes while they are within 300 feet of parking lots and road ends.
In a unanimous vote Friday, the East Hampton Village Board approved the controversial change to its existing regulations. Previously, dogs could run at will during the hours that they were allowed on the ocean beaches: before 9 a.m. and after 6 p.m. during the summer months.
May 9, 2013
Resorts report that concern over the loss of sand and dunes caused by Hurricane Sandy and the string of northeasters that followed has sparked increased interest in Montauk as a summer destination.
“How are the beaches?”
It’s the first question being put to employees working the phones at Montauk’s beachfront motels this spring. The good news is that reservations are strong. The scary news is that a strong tourist season has such a shaky foundation.
May 2, 2013
On the foggy early morning of May 8, 1978, a strikingly beautiful sailing yacht went hard aground on the rocks just east of Ditch Plain Beach in Montauk.
On the foggy early morning of May 8, 1978, a strikingly beautiful sailing yacht went hard aground on the rocks just east of Ditch Plain Beach in Montauk. She was Amazon, a steel-hulled, 72-foot, yawl-rigged ocean racer designed by Sparkman and Stephens.
April 24, 2013
Over the course of lengthy and sometimes combative remarks, the board listened quietly as speakers cited a deep bond with their pets and “the old bucolic, wonderful ways of East Hampton” as grounds to table a measure they called misguided and pointless. It was even suggested that board members retire or be voted out of office should they act to further regulate dogs’ presence on village beaches.
No fewer than 18 residents of East Hampton Village and surrounding hamlets delivered impassioned pleas to the village board on Friday asking it not to add further restrictions to dogs on village beaches.
April 17, 2013
A New York Sea Grant expert provided an overview of Long Island’s coastal makeup and the forces at work upon it. Few local governments have enough information to make informed decisions about how to deal with the long-range problem of sea level rise, he said.
Gurney’s Inn hosted a post-Sandy summit on Friday that brought together first responders, planners, state, county, and local officials, and representatives of the Long Island Power Authority and Suffolk County Water Authority to discuss how to redefine the future of coastal living in the wake of the Oct. 29 storm.
The all-day workshop was co-sponsored by the Montauk Chamber of Commerce and the Concerned Citizens of Montauk.
April 4, 2013
In the last two years alone, the perennially cash-strapped Springs district has received more than $800,000 in owed tuition money after being continually overcharged.
In Springs, the big takeaway is that if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
Over the past few years, such unrelenting persistence has resulted in the Springs School receiving $3.9 million after discovering that the East Hampton School District had continually overcharged its feeder districts for the hundreds of students it sends there.
April 2, 2013
An employee carrying much of the holiday weekend’s cash in a bank-drop bag was robbed at gunpoint by another man Saturday night in the parking lot behind the IGA on North Main Street in East Hampton.
An employee carrying much of the holiday weekend’s cash in a bank-drop bag was robbed at gunpoint by another man Saturday night in the parking lot behind the I.G.A. on North Main Street in East Hampton, Detective Lt. Chris Anderson of the East Hampton Town police said Monday.
According to the East Hampton Town call log for the day, the call was received at 10:19 p.m.
March 18, 2013
Jay Schneiderman, who was the East Hampton Town Republicans' top choice to run for town supervisor this year, announced today that he will instead seek a sixth and final term on the Legislature, leaving Republicans to find a new candidate to lead their ticket.
Suffolk County Legislator Jay Schneiderman, who was the East Hampton Town Republicans' top choice to run for town supervisor this year, announced today that he will instead seek a sixth and final term on the Legislature. That leaves the Republicans to seek out a new candidate to lead their ticket.
Supervisor Bill Wilkinson, a Republican, has said he does not wish to run for re-election.
March 7, 2013
Two former East Hampton Town fire marshals have come forward to question the authenticity of documents attributed to them that were used to justify the town’s seizure of cars and equipment from a Montauk mechanic in 2009.
Two former East Hampton Town fire marshals have come forward to question the authenticity of documents attributed to them that were used to justify the town’s seizure of cars and equipment from a Montauk mechanic in 2009.
February 28, 2013
Officials to ask Army Corps for $20 million
A coastal erosion committee established by the East Hampton Town Board after mega-storm Sandy took a heavy toll in Montauk agreed on Tuesday that nothing — including revetments and other hard structures — should be discounted as an interim means of defending the hamlet’s business district against storm surge until the beach and dunes, which were severely eroded, could be rebuilt.
February 21, 2013
Pressure to rebuild Montauk’s downtown beaches is so great that East Hampton Town’s coastal erosion committee floated the idea of exporting sand from other parts of town.
Pressure to rebuild Montauk’s downtown beaches is so great that East Hampton Town’s coastal erosion committee floated the idea last week of exporting sand to the hamlet from other parts of town.
February 14, 2013
The hope of several school administrators and parents is that the recent suicides will precipitate real change.
Three South Fork students — who were Latino — have committed suicide since 2009, prompting school and mental health professionals to call the need for increased outreach to that community especially acute.
February 6, 2013
Mark Crandall, who has for the past 18 years used sport to reach at-risk youngsters in southern Africa, has recently imported Hoops 4 Hope and Soccer 4 Hope’s model to the Inuits in Canada’s arctic region.
Mark Crandall, who has for the past 18 years used sport — basketball, soccer, and chess — as a means through which to reach at-risk youngsters in southern Africa, has recently imported Hoops 4 Hope and Soccer 4 Hope’s model to the Inuits in Canada’s arctic region.
January 31, 2013
Garden idea planted; donations would be key.
East Hampton’s historic Town Hall, made from a grouping of vintage buildings that were donated by a collector who preserved barns and other structures from all over town, will be gussied up with plantings like those that might have once been found in their dooryard gardens, as well as other indigenous and deer-resistant plants, if a plan being developed by the town’s litter committee bears fruit.
January 24, 2013
At Tuesday’s East Hampton School Board meeting the first draft of the proposed budget for the 2013-14 school year was finally unveiled.
At Tuesday’s East Hampton School Board meeting, a packed house of parents, teachers, and staff members sought warmth from the bitter cold and answers to their many questions. Near the end of the meeting, the first draft of the proposed budget for the 2013-14 school year was finally unveiled. Isabel Madison, the assistant superintendent for business, presented the 27-page document to the board. A copy was not made available to the public.
January 17, 2013
Twenty years ago this week, Katie Beers, who was kidnapped two days before her 10th birthday, was released from a macabre dungeon beneath a Bay Shore house where she had been held for 17 days by a family friend. She has now written a book about her life, which began anew thanks to a foster family in Springs.
Twenty years ago this week, Katie Beers, who was kidnapped two days before her 10th birthday, was released from a macabre dungeon beneath a Bay Shore house where she had been held for 17 days by John Esposito, a family friend.
She had already lived through years of neglect by her biological mother, Marilyn Beers, and sexual abuse by a man married to a surrogate mother with whom she was often left.
January 10, 2013
The East Hampton Town Trustees have sued the town zoning board of appeals over its decision to allow a sea wall to be built in front of a house at Lazy Point, Amagansett.
The East Hampton Town Trustees have taken the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals to court. In documents filed in State Supreme Court in Riverhead on Dec. 28, the trustees sought to annul a Nov. 30 Z.B.A. decision approving the construction of a stone revetment on the shore of Gardiner’s Bay. Arguments will be heard on Feb. 12.
January 3, 2013
Montauk’s oceanfront business district has become a testing ground, a sea-level stage on which a drama with the potential for environmental and financial ruin, competing philosophies, and the absence of a guiding light, is being played.
Montauk’s oceanfront business district, its “downtown,” has become a testing ground, a sea-level stage on which a drama with the potential for environmental and financial ruin, competing philosophies, and the absence of a guiding light, is being played.
December 27, 2012
Three charity plunges into the chilly Atlantic Ocean are planned for New Year’s Day, about an hour apart, which means that the truly brave could triple-dip, if so moved.
Three charity plunges into the chilly Atlantic Ocean are planned for New Year’s Day, about an hour apart, which means that the truly brave could triple-dip, if so moved.
The morning’s first will be at Gurney’s Inn on Old Montauk Highway in Montauk at 10:30. A $10 donation to Paddlers for Humanity will be asked, as well a contribution of nonperishable food for East End Cares, which formed to provide relief to Long Island residents affected by Hurricane Sandy. Susan Yunker at Gurney’s can answer questions.
December 12, 2012
Cyril’s Fish House, the traffic-stopping hotspot on Napeague, has been front and center at the East Hampton Town Planning Board’s last two meetings, as its members debated whether to recommend a change in its zoning status from residential to neighborhood business, under which a restaurant is allowed.
Cyril’s Fish House, the traffic-stopping hotspot on Napeague, has been front and center at the East Hampton Town Planning Board’s last two meetings, on Nov. 28 and again on Dec. 5, as the board debated whether to recommend a change in its zoning status from residential to neighborhood business, under which a restaurant is an allowed use.
November 29, 2012
The unavoidable knowledge of Sandy’s havoc in the Rockaways and other hard-hit communities raises the question: What if?
A month after Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast, devastating areas west of here but sparing the East End from the worst of it, officials in East Hampton and Southampton Towns are still debriefing, examining emergency plans and their efficacy.
Both towns have reported satisfaction with the way their respective emergency operations centers dealt with public safety, evacuations, road closures, and the like. But the unavoidable knowledge of the storm’s havoc in the Rockaways and other hard-hit communities raises the question: What if?
November 20, 2012
For some affluent Chinese, owning property in the Hamptons makes sense, South Fork brokers said, calling the U.S. market more "safe and secure."
“Wary of Future, Professionals Leave China in Record Numbers” read the Oct. 31 headline in The New York Times. In opting to emigrate, Chinese professionals are seeking greater freedoms — of expression, of religion — and a more secure, stable future, which they feel is uncertain in their homeland.
November 15, 2012
For owners of ocean and bayfront properties across Long Island, the nightmare storm that had always threatened from some distant future was on their doorstep, literally.
On the night of Oct. 29 with the wind shrieking, Steve Kalimnios and one of his staff pointed the beam of a flashlight under the Royal Atlantic Resorts hotel. Hurricane Sandy was riding a full-moon tide landward at full gallop. For Mr. Kalimnios and owners of ocean and bayfront properties across Long Island, the nightmare storm that had always threatened from some distant future was on their doorstep, literally.
November 11, 2012
Hundreds of elderly people in areas of Queens struck hard by Hurricane Sandy are stuck in high-rise apartments without food and water. This is just the tip of an iceberg of hidden devastation.
Hundreds of elderly people in areas of Queens struck hard by Hurricane Sandy are stuck in high-rise apartments without food and water, according to Brian Lydon of East Hampton, who posted a report on East End Cares' Facebook page Saturday morning. This is just the tip of an iceberg of hidden devastation. There has been a lack of information provided to the outside world and minimal communication reaching the thousands who are suffering in cold, dark, conditions, Mr. Lydon said.
November 7, 2012
It goes without saying that the shoreline suffered and was changed throughout, not only along the entire Long Island-Staten Island-New Jersey shore. It will take a lot of thinking and a lot of action to put the coastline back in reasonable shape.
We’ve been through one helluva storm and one not quite helluva. The Oct. 29 storm in many ways rivaled the hurricane of 1938, which almost wiped out eastern Long Island and much of New England. After the cleanup, the rebuilding and the getting back to normal here on the South Fork, we go about our day-to-day activities, thankful that the Big One is gone and things could be worse.
