Government

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.

The standoff between the Town of East Hampton and the car-for-hire service Uber moved into the East Hampton Justice Court Monday, with six drivers being arraigned on charges of operating a taxi business without a license.

Some residents and officials in East Hampton Town were angered by last week's aerial spraying of methoprene, a mosquito larvicide, over Accabonac Harbor in East Hampton.

Nawrocki Smith, an outside auditing firm that also checks on the town’s financial practices, will begin working next week with LTV’s accountant.

The committee will ask the fire district whether the town might lease part of the big empty lot next to the firehouse for five years for overflow parking.

The announcement last week by the nationwide ride-sharing service Uber that it could no longer offer its service here due to town taxi licensing regulations set the wheels in motion for a confrontation.

The Wainscott Citizens Advisory Committee honored one of its own on Saturday, presenting Rick Del Mastro, a committee member for 30 years, with a custom baseball cap and a banner put up outside the Wainscott Chapel.

Lisa Mulhern-Larsen has joined Nancy Keeshan on the East Hampton Republic Committee's ticket for the November town board race.

Uber, which claims it can't possibly meet the Town of East Hampton's new taxi code, has asked its riders to tell East Hampton Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell the town needs Uber this summer.

On one side of the question is the now well-established and very popular resort-night club Surf Lodge, on Edgemere Street in Montauk; on the other, East Hampton Town’s Architectural Review Board.

Amos Goodman, a financial consultant who lives in Springs, was formally nominated by the Suffolk County Republican Committee on Monday as the party’s candidate to represent the Second Legislative District.

SunEdison, a solar energy company, will build solar power plants capable of producing more than four megawatts of electricity on three sites in East Hampton Town.

While a legal decision had been expected on whether three regulations that would restrict access to East Hampton Airport to reduce the impact of aircraft noise will come to bear, town officials announced Wednesday afternoon that the decision has been put off until June 26.

Detailed studies of East Hampton Town’s various hamlets are to be commissioned by the town board in an effort to plan for future development or preservation in accordance with the comprehensive plan.

The owners of Montauk’s Royal Atlantic Motel have asked to be included as defendants in Defend H2O’s lawsuit seeking to stop the Army Corps of Engineers from building a reinforced dune along the downtown Montauk beach.

Using the community preservation fund, the East Hampton Town Board has authorized the purchase of three properties, from which houses will be removed in order to return the lands to their natural states.

A 150-foot communications tower erected behind the Springs Firehouse on Fort Pond Boulevard has prompted an appeal to the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals that seeks to overturn its building permit.

Suffolk County Legislator Jay Schneiderman, a former East Hampton Town supervisor, announced his intention to run for Southampton Town supervisor.

A list of repairs and maintenance projects at East Hampton Airport was discussed on Tuesday.

East Hampton Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell, a Democrat, has won the endorsement of the East Hampton Independence Party for a second run.

The party, which made its announcement on Monday, also selected Councilwoman Sylvia Overby and Councilman Peter Van Scoyoc, both incumbent Democrats, as their candidates. Republicans will run Nancy Keeshan of Montauk and Len Czajka of Springs for those posts and Tom Knobel, the party’s chairman, for town supervisor.

Owners of large properties in East Hampton Village gave no quarter in their collective denunciation of the graduated formulas the village has proposed for limiting the square footage of houses and accessory structures.