“I have a big list of thank-yous and acknowledgments, because I stand on the shoulders of giants,” Suffolk County Legislator Ann Welker said, reflecting on her first 100 days in office.
New County Buses Will Roll Starting Sunday
After several months of delays related to manufacturing, Suffolk County's expansion of on-demand bus service to East Hampton Town is set to begin on Sunday.
April 24, 2024
Police & Courts
Squirrels, porch pirates, injured seals, drones, missing White Claws, and more in this week's police logs.
Apr 25, 2024
A 27-year-old East Hampton woman was injured overnight when she crashed her car into a tree on Three Mile Harbor-Hog Creek Road, East Hampton Town police said Thursday morning.
Apr 25, 2024
On Pantigo Road near Bostwick’s, a 38-year-old man who appeared to be intoxicated was questioned by police on the afternoon of April 7. He said he wasn’t causing trouble, just canvassing businesses looking for work. Police drove him back to his house. Eight days before, the same man had been seen opening a storage shed and walk-in cooler behind Rowdy Hall in Amagansett, and he was later accused of taking 20 containers of beer and four containers of iced tea. According to the official report, petty larceny charges may be pending.
Apr 18, 2024
A Push for Paid Parking
Public officials in search of new revenue streams love paid parking. So now might be a good time to get familiar with ParkMobile, as the number of lots using it here is growing.
Apr 18, 2024
New Housing Fund Brings in $4.2M in East Hampton
East Hampton Town’s new community housing fund, voted into law in November 2022 and financed by a half-percent tax on real estate sales paid by the buyer, has brought in $4.2 million in its first year, Eric Schantz, director of the Housing and Community Development Department, reported to the town board on Tuesday. The money is intended chiefly for affordable housing and to help first-time homebuyers.
Apr 18, 2024
Government
On April 10, the federal Environmental Protection Agency issued a final determination on limits for “forever chemicals” in drinking water sources, along with a three-to-five-year timeline by which testing and remediation are to occur and about $1 billion in funding to support states, cities, and other municipalities in carrying out that testing and remediation.
Apr 18, 2024
Proposals to deal with wastewater at Rowdy Hall and two Montauk businesses, a hotel and a restaurant, were greenlighted at a town board work session last week. But the highlight might have been an eelgrass project for Napeague Harbor.
Apr 18, 2024
The Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee, which in recent months has been debating the pros and cons of the proposed new East Hampton Town Senior Citizens Center, did so again this week, with many thorny questions still on the minds of members.
Apr 11, 2024
A rocky revetment, rocky relationships, and even conspiracy theories were on display at the East Hampton Zoning Board of Appeals meeting on April 2, during a public hearing involving a proposed 108-foot-long, 10-foot-high revetment at the end of Bay View Avenue on Napeague. The structure, meant to deflect waves, was instead creating them.
Apr 11, 2024
Arts
Of Mice and Women, in New Van Booy Novel
The newest novel from the award-winning writer Simon Van Booy is a linear narrative about a reclusive octogenarian and the mouse she rescues from the elements.
Apr 24, 2024
LTV’s production of Martin McDonagh’s play “The Pillowman” brings together an accomplished team of local talent whose members have worked with each other before,
Apr 24, 2024
Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton will be at Bay Street Theater with their new children’s book, and the comedian Joseph Vecsey will perform a live taping of his new show.
Apr 24, 2024
Bay Street Theater has added Terrence McNally’s play “Master Class” and a one-woman show by Julia Motyka to its summer season.
Apr 24, 2024
Villages
Fairies Make Mischief at Montauk Nature Preserve
A "fairy gnome village" in the Culloden Point Preserve, undoubtedly erected without a building permit, has become an amusing but also divisive issue for those living on Montauk's lesser-known point.
Ruta 27 Students Show How Far They've Traveled
With a buzz of pride and anticipation in the air, and surrounded by friends, loved ones, and even former fellow students, 120 adults who spent the last eight months learning to speak and write English with Ruta 27 — Programa de Inglés showcased their newly honed skills at the East Hampton Library last week.
Breaking Fast, Looking for Peace
Dozens of Muslim men, women, and children gathered on April 10 at Agawam Park in Southampton Village to celebrate Eid ul-Fitr and break their Ramadan fast together with a multicultural potluck-style celebration. The observance of this Muslim holiday wasn't the only topic on their minds.
