The League of Women Voters of New York State filed a lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court on Friday, seeking the postponement of State Assembly primary elections from June 28 to Aug. 23 in order to align with the State Senate and congressional primaries.
East Hampton Village’s “2023 tentative budget includes the biggest tax cut of the last 20 years,” the village’s administrator, Marcos Baladron, announced at a village board meeting on Friday.
This photograph from the Springs Historical Society shows Donald Asa Miller (1917-2007) in a bomber-style aviator jacket. The plane behind him carries an Army Air Corps logo, although Miller served as a radioman in the Navy.
It didn’t take long for the East Hampton Village lifeguard squad to get called into action this season, and their save of two boys caught in a rip current provided a good chance to educate the young swimmers about the dangers of such currents and how to deal with them.
Police were called on the morning of May 16 to 66 Newtown Lane, where an older man was reportedly yelling profanities. Officers found him sitting on a bench, not yelling anymore. He said was waiting for a store to open, and was “tired of this place.”
Concerned that the takeout she had gotten for dinner would slide off the seat, a woman reached over, lost control of her car, and ran into a tree.
East Hampton Town police lodged a felony charge of driving while intoxicated early Saturday morning after seeing a 2001 black Dodge swerving over the double lines on Springs-Fireplace Road.
A retired East Hampton Village police officer who spent 20 years on the force, William George Anderson was also an active member of the East Hampton Fire Department. He died on May 6 at Stony Brook University Hospital of an undetermined infection.
Wendy Elizabeth Flanagan “could often be heard saying, ‘I love my life!’ ” A Montauk prekindergarten teacher, mother, and wife, and more recently a Pierson High School volleyball coach, she brought “boundless love and energy” to everything she did, her husband wrote.
Thomas Joseph Byrne, a retired chief petty officer with the United States Navy, died of heart failure on May 8 at home in Springs. He was 86. God, family, and country were driving forces throughout his life, his family said.
