A couple who lives next to Herrick Park in East Hampton Village is seeking to stop the village from building lighted pickleball courts in the park and making other improvements there. Meanwhile on Friday, the village board agreed to amend the village code regarding pickleball courts and impose a six-month moratorium on conversion of tennis courts and other playing courts on residential property to pickleball courts.
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to address a statewide housing shortage by building 800,000 new residences over the next decade has been removed from the state’s 2024 executive budget. Widely panned here, it would have effectively eliminated “decades of work put into creating our own local zoning, building, and environmental regulations,” an East Hampton Town planner told the town board last month.
A steel boat built by the late Stuart Vorpahl, a fisherman, historian, town trustee, secretary of the East Hampton Baymen’s Association, and descendant of one of East Hampton’s oldest families, landed at the East Hampton Historical Farm Museum and is now on view there.
The petition, in the form of an open letter to the East Hampton Town Board, calls for a reduction in allowable house size and clearing, review and amendment of the zoning code, and a moratorium on large construction. As of Wednesday morning, 300 people had signed it.
End Citizens United has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging that Representative Nick LaLota of New York’s First Congressional District, his 2022 campaign for Congress, his campaign treasurer, and his 2020 State Senate campaign violated the 1971 Federal Election Campaign Act and F.E.C. regulations.
Sergey Avramenko, a native of Belarus and a frequent winner of road races here, won the Katy’s Courage 5K in Sag Harbor Saturday. The new season will continue with the May Day 5K at East Hampton Village’s Main Beach on May 7.
Kieran Hildreth, a 13-year-old Montauker who spends about five months of the year in northeastern Vermont, where he is a member of the Burke Mountain Academy Junior Program, continues to clean up in alpine skiing.
Annemarie Brown started five ninth graders in East Hampton's softball win over Hampton Bays Saturday, while the girls track team blew out Eastport-South Manor to improve to 2-1-1. And more in Bonac sports.
Striped bass have shown up en masse in local waters, and many casters are very pleased with their early, bountiful showing. “It’s wonderful to see,” said Ken Morse at Tight Lines Tackle in Sag Harbor.
Concerned Citizens of Montauk announced this week that it has retained Christopher Gobler of Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences to assess Montauk’s wastewater issues.
