May 16, 2013
Cops turn out in force Tuesday to decry a layoff of one of their own
Sag Harbor’s Village Hall was packed with police officers on Tuesday evening, there to accuse Mayor Brian Gilbride of having an unspecified personal agenda in connection with the layoff of Officer David Driscoll, the department’s officer of the year in 2012.
The mayor repeatedly asked, without success, for a motion to go into executive session.
May 16, 2013
The allegation of a possible irregularity concerns one Springs staff member and one student
The Springs School District announced Saturday that it had turned over information to the Testing Integrity Unit of the New York State Education Department concerning a possible testing irregularity related to a recent state assessment.
A press release the district issued said that the allegation of a possible irregularity concerns one Springs staff member and one student — though the district declined to identify either individual by name.
May 16, 2013
The nomination of Zachary Cohen for East Hampton Town councilman from the floor at the Democrats’ nominating convention Wednesday night made for some tense moments for Job Potter and Kathee Burke-Gonzalez, the candidates favored by the party’s screening committee.
The nomination of Zachary Cohen for East Hampton Town councilman from the floor at the Democrats’ nominating convention Wednesday night made for some tense moments for Job Potter and Kathee Burke-Gonzalez, the candidates favored by the party’s screening committee. In the end, Mr. Potter and Ms. Burke-Gonzalez prevailed.
May 16, 2013
The three men vying for two openings on the Springs School Board made their opinions known during a meet-the-candidates forum Tuesday
Civility and courtesy mostly ruled the night, as the three men vying for two openings on the Springs School Board made their opinions known during a meet-the-candidates forum Tuesday.
For the nearly 25 residents in attendance, the gathering provided the only opportunity to hear the positions of each candidate before Tuesday’s budget vote and school board election.
May 16, 2013
In East Hampton on Monday night, about 50 audience members sat through a 90-minute meet-the-candidates forum at the John M. Marshall Elementary School to hear from five newcomers and one incumbent
In East Hampton on Monday night, about 50 audience members sat through a 90-minute meet-the-candidates forum at the John M. Marshall Elementary School to hear from five newcomers and one incumbent with their sights set on three openings on the East Hampton School Board.
It’s quite a contest compared to last spring, when two candidates ran unopposed for the two open seats.
May 16, 2013
Planners critique Gansett baby-boomer development
“Anything new on the 555 front?” East Hampton Town Councilwoman Sylvia Overby said she inquired casually on Monday afternoon as she passed Marguerite Wolffsohn’s office at Town Hall.
“As a matter of fact, there is,” replied Ms. Wolffsohn, the director of the town Planning Department, handing over a hot-off-the-printer copy of the initial site plan evaluation for the controversial Amagansett development. “And you’re the first to see it.”
May 16, 2013
Wind and storms, beginning with Hurricane Sandy last fall, have stripped the beach of sand,exposing hazardous, formerly buried, chunks of concrete, and replacing the soft sand at the surf line and undersea with piles of large stones.
With just over a week until Memorial Day, the start of the beach season, pleasure-seekers flocking to Montauk's Ditch Plain beach, a hangout that The Wall Street Journal once called "about as close as New Yorkers can get to an 'Endless Summer'-style surf heaven," could find an inhospitable seascape officially closed to swimmers.
May 11, 2013
District turned over information to the State Education Department just days after one administrator's sudden resignation and principal's sick leave.
The Springs School District has turned over information to the Testing Integrity Unit of the New York State Education Department concerning possible a testing "irregularity" related to a recent state assessment.
A press release the district issued Saturday afternoon said that the allegation of a possible irregularity concerns one Springs staff member and one student -- though it does not identify either individual by name.
May 9, 2013
A new budget, a new village administrator, a new lighted crosswalk, and a new source of fuel at the Emergency Services Building were topics of discussion
A new budget, a new village administrator, a new lighted crosswalk, and a new source of fuel at the Emergency Services Building were topics of discussion at an East Hampton Village Board work session last Thursday.
Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. announced the tentative 2013-14 operating budget, which, at $19.6 million, would represent a spending increase of 3.2 percent, or $617,322.
May 9, 2013
Misdemeanor charges for a pistol-toting dad who said he was concerned about an open school door and showed officials a New York police ID, which he had claimed was stolen from him about seven years ago.
A former New York City police officer may have been carrying a fully loaded handgun when he walked into the John M. Marshall Elementary School at about 9:45 a.m. on May 1, posing as an N.Y.P.D. working officer investigating school security.
The man, Harry Dalian, 36, of East Hampton was a passenger in his mother’s 2012 Mercedes SUV two days later when police pulled the car over at a rest stop in Wainscott. He was found to be armed with a loaded 9 millimeter gun, which he has a permit to carry.
May 9, 2013
Neighbor’s complaint convinces inspector new variances are needed
Laura Michaels of Edgemere Road received a hearty round of applause from the Montauk Citizens Advisory Committee on Monday after reporting that she had succeeded in having a building permit revoked for a house about to be built next to hers, on the banks of Fort Pond.
Noelle and Thomas Twiggs of New York City, the owners of an acre-plus lot at 85 Edgemere Road, have proposed a 2,437-square-foot house with 1,225 square feet of decking and a retaining wall, sanitary system, and driveway on property adjacent to freshwater wetlands.
May 9, 2013
The question of whether a manager or administrator is appropriate and advisable for the Town of East Hampton was the subject of a lively debate at the village’s Emergency Services Building on Saturday.
The question of whether a manager or administrator is appropriate and advisable for the Town of East Hampton was the subject of a lively debate at the village’s Emergency Services Building on Saturday.
Sponsored by the East Hampton Group for Good Government, the League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, and the East Hampton Business Alliance, the 90-minute forum provided residents a range of opinions from elected officials and others.
May 9, 2013
With swimming season set to begin soon, a question remains about whether the public should be warned against taking a dip in Lake Montauk
With swimming season set to begin soon, a question remains about whether the public should be warned against taking a dip in Lake Montauk from a beach along the shore at South Lake where parents have long brought children to wade and splash. Water tests have revealed skyrocketing levels of organisms that indicate fecal contamination, particularly after heavy rain.
May 2, 2013
A plan to buy jackets with a town logo for every full-time East Hampton Town employee has not been universally well received at Town Hall
A plan to buy jackets with a town logo for every full-time East Hampton Town employee, perceived as a morale-boosting reward by Supervisor Bill Wilkinson, who initiated it without consulting the rest of the town board, has not been universally well received at Town Hall, where a number of employees have balked at the idea of wearing what they view as a uniform.
May 2, 2013
East Hampton Town’s chief building inspector, Tom Preiato, will determine soon whether a private club being run at the Montauk Beach House is an accessory to the hotel’s main business or is considered a separate use.
East Hampton Town’s chief building inspector, Tom Preiato, will determine soon whether a private club being run at the Montauk Beach House is an accessory to the hotel’s main business or is considered a separate use, which would trigger a full site plan review by the town planning board.
At the same time, the planning board has a hearing scheduled for Wednesday at 7 p.m. as part of more limited reviews of the hotel’s rebuilt bar and gift shop.
May 2, 2013
Beating the major parties to the punch, the East Hampton Independence Party announced its 2013 slate on Tuesday, naming Larry Cantwell as its supervisor candidate
Beating the major parties to the punch, the East Hampton Independence Party announced its 2013 slate on Tuesday, naming Larry Cantwell as its supervisor candidate, and Fred Overton and Councilman Dominick Stanzione as its choices for town councilman.
May 2, 2013
An Amagansett man was arrested on April 24 and charged with forging Hampton Jitney tickets.
An Amagansett man was arrested on April 24 and charged with forging Hampton Jitney tickets.
Stratford Skalkos, 68, had just gotten off an Ambassador, one of the company’s luxury buses, when Southampton Town police arrested him at the Omni, the company transportation hub on County Road 39. The one-way fare on the Ambassador is $45.
May 2, 2013
Culinary arts is an important part of school curriculum, and it’s lunch, too
“What should we have for lunch?” Arjun Achuthan asked the seven students seated around a wooden dining table on Monday at the Hayground School in Bridgehampton.
Clio Halweil, 5, voted for minestrone soup, Stella Hopson, 8, requested lasagna, and Colin Heilman, 6, made a plea for “garlic cheesy bread.”
May 2, 2013
Eighteen months after a fire destroyed Scoville Hall, its charred husk still stands.
Eighteen months after a fire destroyed Scoville Hall, the building used by the Amagansett Presbyterian Church for social events, meetings, and fund-raisers, its charred husk still stands. Demolition is imminent, however, thanks to the intervention of a celebrated attorney who happens to have a house on the same leafy, quiet street, Meeting House Lane.
May 2, 2013
The role of a professional town manager and the spectrum of ways East Hampton might use one will be discussed during a public forum on Saturday moderated by Lynn Sherr, an award-winning television correspondent and author.
The role of a professional town manager and the spectrum of ways East Hampton might use one will be discussed during a public forum on Saturday moderated by Lynn Sherr, an award-winning television correspondent and author.
April 24, 2013
Montauk Highway roadwork, set to resume as pre-summer laborer and delivery traffic reaches its peak, will slow drivers through East Hampton Village until at least May 20.
Montauk Highway roadwork, set to resume as pre-summer laborer and delivery traffic reaches its peak, will slow drivers through East Hampton Village until at least May 20, a spokeswoman for the New York State Department of Transportation said.
Long tie-ups are possible between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. during lane closures, according to Eileen Peters, a public information officer for the Department of Transportation’s Region 10.
April 24, 2013
School board elections are heating up as unusually contested this year in East Hampton and Springs, with five newcomers and an incumbent battling for three openings in East Hampton and three candidates hoping to fill two places in Springs.
School board elections are heating up as unusually contested this year in East Hampton and Springs, with five newcomers and an incumbent battling for three openings in East Hampton and three candidates hoping to fill two places in Springs. They have a little less than a month to make their cases in time for May 21 elections and budget votes.
April 24, 2013
Dashiel Marder, a 30-year-old world-class spearfisherman from Springs, disappeared on April 17 while diving off the coast of East Nusa Tengarra in Indonesia after the veteran free diver did not surface.
Dashiel Marder, a 30-year-old world-class spearfisherman from Springs, disappeared on April 17 while diving off the coast of East Nusa Tengarra in Indonesia. According to his family, the owners of the Marders Garden Center and Nursery in Bridgehampton, the veteran free diver did not surface after a dive.
Teams are expected to continue the search at least until the end of the week.
April 24, 2013
East Hampton Town’s Fort Pond House, which sits on four acres and provided, with the exception of a boat launching ramp, the only public access to the pond, will remain for sale despite a lack of viable offers and a recent attempt, for the second time, by the town board’s two Democrats to withdraw it from the market.
East Hampton Town’s Fort Pond House, which sits on four acres and provided, with the exception of a boat launching ramp, the only public access to the pond, will remain for sale despite a lack of viable offers and a recent attempt, for the second time, by the town board’s two Democrats to withdraw it from the market.
The possibility of selling the house, which was used by community groups, drew strong vocal opposition and caused two lawsuits.
April 24, 2013
A gateway to Ditch Plain, Montauk, may have a very different look if the East Hampton Town Planning Board approves a subdivision proposed for the residential site.
Set on a slight rise, with a big lawn in front of it, the house at the corner of Ditch Plain and Deforest Roads, there since the days when Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders were quarantined in Montauk, is hard to miss if you’re headed to the beach.
But the one-acre property could be in for some major changes if the East Hampton Town Planning Board approves a plan to divide it in two.
