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Mixed News for Town in Latest Airport Ruling

A ruling by a four-judge panel of the New York State Supreme Court's Appellate Division affirmed on Wednesday that the court had properly determined that East Hampton Town failed to comply with procedural requirements of the federal Airport Noise and Capacity Act when it briefly closed and reopened the airport in 2022. But the division sided with the town in agreeing that a $250,000 penalty for civil contempt and fine of $1,000 per day for each day that the town did not comply with a 2022 temporary restraining order were improper.

Water Report a Mixed Bag

While most waters in East Hampton Town were often of a high quality in 2023, what happens on the land affects what happens to surface waters, and more people and more land use mean more nitrogen loading, leading to more harmful algal blooms, according to an annual report on the waterways from Christopher Gobler of Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences.