Concerned that there could be "chaos in our community" because of deportation threats by President Trump, East Hampton Village Mayor Jerry Larsen announced a press conference on Tuesday evening at 6 in the Emergency Services Building to ease fears. The public is invited.
Prospect of Funding Freeze Panicked Many
The Federal Office of Management and Budget’s temporary pause Tuesday on grants, loans, and federal financial assistance programs that are targeted by President Trump’s executive orders was rescinded only 24 hours later, but not before sending local organizations into a panic.
January 30, 2025
Police & Courts
When a box with two vacuum-sealed packages of marijuana arrived at the doorstep of an Osborne Lane man, he reported it to police.
Jan 30, 2025
The East Hampton Town Police Department announced this week that it is now accepting applications for its 2025 Citizens Academy, which is intended to give residents insight into how local police departments operate.
Jan 30, 2025
Police made one felony-level arrest on a charge of aggravated drunken driving early on Monday morning, and another man was charged with violating an order of protection.
Jan 30, 2025
East Hampton Supervisor Talks Senior Center
“I know there are some folks out there that are concerned about the price, and I’m concerned about the cost too,” Kathee Burke-Gonzalez said, but compared the project, slated to cost around $30 million, to the $23 million expansion of the Springs School, completed in 2021, or the $56 million renovation and expansion of East Hampton High School, completed in 2010. “We support our kids. We need to be able to support our seniors.”
Jan 30, 2025
Early Bird Gets the Beach Pass
The first people in line to get one of the 1,600 coveted nonresident East Hampton Village beach passes made available to town residents at an in-person sale Tuesday arrived at 5:45 a.m. “It’s like an event, and we look forward to it every year,” one woman said.
Jan 30, 2025
Government
They say the wheels of justice turn slowly, but if so, no one told County Supreme Court Justice Paul Hensley. Just days after 84 Wainscott Hollow Road L.L.C. submitted a lawsuit against the East Hampton Town Architectural Review Board seeking an annulment of the board’s Dec. 12 denial of its application, the judge granted the petition “in all respects.”
Jan 30, 2025
In a sort of reintroduction to a largely new planning board, the East Hampton Town Planning Department gave a short recap of what has happened since a 2023 hearing on the Wainscott Commercial Center, the largest development proposal in the town, at a 70.4-acre former sand mine.
Jan 30, 2025
With plans to remodel her father’s 35-year-old Hampton Auto Collision shop on Springs-Fireplace Road next door to Springs Pizza, Lindsay Reichart and her partner, Gunnar Burke, quickly won over the East Hampton Town Planning Board with their idea for “a year-round location for people to socialize.”
Jan 30, 2025
Oyster survivorship in Georgica Pond over the last five years is 40 to 50 percent, which Stony Brook’s Gobler Lab deems “really quite amazing.”
Jan 30, 2025
Arts
‘East End Collected 8’: Shaking It Up
Paton Miller and Christina Strassfield have selected 28 artists for the eighth iteration of "East End Collected" at the Southampton Arts Center.
Jan 30, 2025
Alexander A. Wu, a pianist, will perform a program of music composed by Africans and descendants of enslaved Africans at the Montauk Library.
Jan 30, 2025
The Boston Typewriter Orchestra will bring its one-of-a-kind blend of percussion, vocals, and satire to The Church in Sag Harbor.
Jan 30, 2025
Solo show for Sasson Soffer at the Drawing Room, late-night open studio at The Church, studio critiques at the D'Amico House, and two new shows at Stella Flame.
Jan 30, 2025
Villages
‘Sensitive Areas’ No Longer Safe From ICE Raids?
One of the first executive orders of the new Trump administration rescinded Biden administration policies that forbid Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from conducting raids in “sensitive areas” such as schools and places of worship. With this dramatic policy change, local school officials and religious leaders are banding together in a call to protect the immigrant community.
Item of the Week: The Story of Edwin Rose
This photo from the Hampton Library showcases the Bridgehampton house of Edwin Rose, Civil War veteran, Southampton Town supervisor, state legislator.
A Painting Comes Home to Springs
A painting by the late Ralph Carpentier, a well-known landscape painter here who died in 2016, is back in the hamlet where he created it and on display at the Springs Library.
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Jan 30, 2025
