Government

Complaints about garbage cans and trash on the beaches brought East Hampton Village officials to a meeting of the town trustees on Tuesday, with the village beach manager defending Main Beach, which is consistently ranked as one of the nation’s finest, and one of the trustees defending her unilateral action to tag cans on the beaches for removal.

An incident early this month in which two dogs that swam in Fort Pond in Montauk experienced subsequent gastrointestinal illness is raising questions about the water body’s ecological wellness and whether or not a monitoring program should be implemented.

East Hampton Town’s Public Safety Division reported last week that the Ordinance Enforcement Department had opened cases on 1,076 alleged code violations during the first half of 2015, up from 621 cases opened during the first six months of 2014.

According to Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell, who commented in a press release, the department’s half-year report depicts a “notable increase in enforcement activity in the Town of East Hampton, highlighting the town’s continued improvement in enforcing the town code, to the benefit of all East Hampton residents.”

The East Hampton Town Republican Party will launch its campaign for the Nov. 3 election at a party from 6:30 to 9 tonight at East Hampton Point restaurant.

Tom Knobel, the G.O.P. candidate for supervisor, Lisa Mulhern Larsen and Margaret Turner, candidates for the town board, Stephen Lynch, the incumbent highway superintendent, and candidates for town justice, assessor, and trustees are expected to attend.

Tickets, which are $100, can be purchased at the door or online at eventbrite.com or ehnygop.com.

After reports of overcrowding and other problems at Harbor Raw Bar and Lounge near the Montauk Docks, East Hampton Town got a judge on Wednesday to agree to put the clamps on the party.

“What benefit does a year-round resident get for the diminution of quality of life?” asked Jeanne Frankl. “What does the town get in tax revenue?”

Acute summer headaches have engendered talk of civil disobedience by members of a new Facebook group called Montauk Locals — people who, says its page, “do not want our town destroyed or abused by out-of-towners that have no respect for our town and the locals, workers, and beaches.”

A proposed change in how landing fees are calculated for aircraft using East Hampton Airport will result in a 15-percent increase in revenue to the airport this year.

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The growth of solar power generation in New York State increased by more than 300 percent from 2011 to 2014.

Beach fires on East Hampton Town beaches might soon have to be built only in containers.

A hearing before the East Hampton Town Board last Thursday on a management plan for a town nature preserve on Napeague, which abuts Dolphin ­Drive on its western edge, rekindled a debate over parking on Dolphin Drive.

The Department of Environmental Conservation has announced the reopening of approximately 4,000 acres of shellfish habitat in the Towns of Southampton, Riverhead, and Southold.

Helicopters and other “noisy aircraft” that fly into and out of East Hampton Airport will be subject to a nightly curfew.

A federal judge has agreed to an injunction sought by aviation interests blocking East Hampton Town from imposing strict limits on helicopters and other loud aircraft using the municipal airport in Wainscott.

A group of 10 coastal planning experts appointed last week to a Town of East Hampton Coastal Resiliency Project Advisory Committee will guide the town in its development of a Coastal Assessment Resiliency Plan, called CARP, over the next two years.

A proposed law that would limit the ability of East Hampton motels to add a restaurant or bar drew support, critique, and criticism last Thursday night during a hearing before the East Hampton Town Board.

Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. has endorsed Southampton Town Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst in her bid for Congress.

The East Hampton Town Trustees, who manage many of the town’s beaches, waterways, and bottomlands on behalf of the public, have asked the public to help fight aerial spraying of the mosquito larvicide methoprene on waters under their jurisdiction.

An archeological survey of close to three acres at the corner of East Hampton’s North Main and Cedar Streets could reveal the locations of wind-powered sawmills once on the site.

A month after the board faced a small army of attorneys and owners of large properties who were nearly unanimous in their fierce opposition, the board brushed aside a predicted legal challenge and adopted new restrictions on gross floor area and lot coverage on residential properties.

The East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals heard yet another application to replace one of the 27 oceanfront units there with a much larger one Tuesday night.

Farmers and agriculturalists looking for additional capital to jump-start or stimulate their operations will want to know about a free workshop happening on Tuesday at Suffolk Community College.

A judge has dealt a setback to the Town of East Hampton and town trustees in a lawsuit that could effectively end access by the public to a roughly 4,000-foot-long portion of ocean beach.

The sterilization in early January of what was reported to be 114 female deer, for which the East Hampton Village Board paid $140,000 to White Buffalo, a nonprofit organization based in Connecticut, is under scrutiny in light of the recent, gruesome deaths of three of the animals and confirmation that three others died as a consequence of capture or surgery.

East Hampton Town will ask the regional community preservation fund opinions bureau to weigh in on the future of the former Boys Harbor camp property in East Hampton, which was purchased by the county and the town using C.P.F. money.

A week after the East Hampton Republican Committee announced that Len Czajka had dropped out of the East Hampton Town Board race, the party’s other candidate for town board, Nancy Keeshan, announced her withdrawal from the race, as well.

Margaret Turner, the executive director of the East Hampton Business Alliance, was selected to replace Ms. Keeshan at a meeting of the Republican Committee on June 10.

A proposed law that would keep some motels and resorts from adding a new bar or restaurant to their facilities will be the subject of a hearing on Thursday night before the East Hampton Town Board.

A proposal to drop a requirement that home improvement contractors attach stickers to their cars attesting that they hold East Hampton Town licenses did not get a stamp of approval this week from Betsy Bambrick, who heads the town’s Ordinance Enforcement Department.

Three solar power plants proposed for town-owned land in East Hampton and Springs would help East Hampton to achieve its renewable energy goals and earn it money in the process, but an initial review of two of the proposals by the town planning board on June 10 revealed a handful of issues that will have to be answered before the projects can move forward.