East Hampton Town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc announced Friday that he will retire from public service at the end of this year, opting not to seek re-election to a fourth term. His deputy supervisor, Councilwoman Kathee Burke-Gonzalez, will seek the Democrats' nomination for supervisor.
Southampton Town is willing to make good on its offer of $6 million from the community preservation fund toward the joint purchase with the Sag Harbor School District of land on Marsden Street, but on at least three conditions.
In Suffolk County Criminal Court on Thursday, Marc Dern of Springs pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the Feb. 5, 2022, death of Kevin Somers, a friend and fellow Maidstone Club employee.
“I am truly sorry for ruining your lives,” a tearful Daniel Campbell, the driver in an August 2021 hit-and-run that led to the death of Devesh Samtani, told a courtroom full of Mr. Samtani's friends and family at his sentencing hearing on Thursday. "The loss of your son’s life will be with me forever.”
East Hampton Town police on Wednesday arrested a 13-year-old Springs School student who allegedly doctored a photo of another student, turned it into a threat of violence, and posted it on social media. Officers were able to "swiftly" deem it noncredible, according to a press release.
Appearing before Suffolk County Supreme Court Justice Richard Ambro in Riverside Tuesday morning, Daniel Campbell, the driver in a 2021 hit-and-run in Amagansett, accepted the judge's latest sentencing recommendation: 90 days in jail, 90 days of community service, and five years' probation.
A Friday night motorcycle crash on Bluff Road in Amagansett sent one person to the hospital and another to court.
Marine units and other law enforcement assets from around the region were on scene Thursday afternoon searching for a 31-year-old Queens man, Dario Cholula, who went missing last night while reportedly fishing the waters off North Haven.
A small plane crashed on the edge of Three Mile Harbor in East Hampton on Thursday at about 12:30 p.m., killing the pilot, Kent I. Feuerring of Sagaponack.
East Hampton Town closed Amagansett ocean beaches to swimming around 2 p.m. Wednesday after a surfcaster caught a six-foot spinner shark, and East Hampton Village followed suit, closing all five of its beaches to swimming.
