Government

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.

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.

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.

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

After recent contentious public hearings, the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals rejected several applications.

The East Hampton Town Board is preparing to revise the town code to prohibit new motel-based bars and restaurants in residential zones.

A mental health provider inappropriately charged more than $150,000 to the state Office of Mental Health, according to the office of New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.

The East Hampton Town Board set penalties for violating new laws restricting the use of East Hampton Town Airport last Thursday night despite challengers’ request for a temporary restraining order.

The scarcity of parking in Amagansett’s commercial district, along with potential remedies and enforcement, were primary topics of discussion at the hamlet’s citizens advisory committee on Monday.

In the past year and a quarter, East Hampton Town has kept spending down, reduced costs, and accrued surplus in its various budget funds, Len Bernard, the town’s budget officer, told the town board last week.

In a report on the town’s financial affairs in 2014 and 2015, to date, the town’s Finance Department credited “prudent and conservative budgeting and close budget monitoring” throughout the year.

“A large reason for our good fund performance is because we spent less than we budgeted for,” Mr. Bernard told the town board.

Tom Knobel, the chairman of the East Hampton Town Republican Committee and a former member of the town board and town trustees, intends to challenge the incumbent, Larry Cantwell.

East Hampton Town

New Summer Event Fees

As the summer season of social events draws near, the East Hampton Town Board set new fees last Thursday for gatherings held on public properties or at commercial establishments. A $100-a-day application fee will be charged for parties, fund-raisers, and the like. A sliding scale was established for parades, marathons, triathlons, races, and similar events that use the town’s roadways.

Signs prohibiting parking along Dolphin Drive on Napeague, which were removed after a parking ban had been posted there for years, will go back up, according to a resolution passed by the East Hampton Town Board last week.

The East Hampton Village Board's tentative 2015-16 budget, unveiled last Thursday, includes money to extend its paid emergency medical services program so that a first responder can be on staff around the clock seven days a week.

The State Department of Environmental Conservation announced on Thursday that due to the detection of a marine biotoxin the harvesting of shellfish and carnivorous gastropods, such as whelks, conchs, and moon snails, was temporarily prohibited in approximately 3,900 acres in the Town of Southampton.

New high-voltage electric transmission lines that run through narrow residential streets of East Hampton Village could be removed and instead installed underground, according to a recent proposal by PSEG Long Island.

A 150-foot cellular communications pole erected several weeks ago behind the Springs Fire Department building on Fort Pond Boulevard has angered neighbors.

A pilot project aimed at reducing the flow of nitrogen into surface waters would see the installation of a permeable reactive barrier at the head of Three Mile Harbor in East Hampton.

When the East Hampton Town Planning Board met on April 22, all the stars seemed — at first, anyway — to be aligned for the approval of a proposed 40-acre subdivision of mostly open Wainscott farmland into seven buildable lots and a large agricultural reserve.

The twice-monthly meetings of the East Hampton Town Trustees may soon be recorded and broadcast on LTV, East Hampton’s public access television station.

With seven of the nine members of the governing body present at a meeting on Tuesday, the group addressed recent calls by some of the residents who regularly attend trustee meetings, agreeing to contact LTV to inquire about the installation of audiovisual equipment and broadcast of the meetings, which would also be archived on the station’s website.

Alexander Peters of Amagansett, who owns 3.5 acres of vacant land atop the Stony Hill aquifer there and wants to sell the parcel to the Town of East Hampton but has been stymied by a 20-year-old deed giving others a right of first refusal, said this week that a recent development may support his cause.

A Native American burial site, which was discovered in 1917 off Springs Close Highway in East Hampton, has split the town planning board down the middle in connection with a subdivision application for property across the street.

A controversial proposal for Duryea’s Dock in Montauk — to remove all the structures on the site and replace them with a restaurant and an open deck with a total capacity of 353 patrons — was tabled on April 22 before the East Hampton Town Planning Board could consider it.

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A group largely consisting of young Latino adults who are determined to both live on the South Fork and participate in the political process have organized a monthly meeting at which they can discuss the issues important to them and their peers.

The East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals, by a vote of 4 to 1, rejected a request from four homeowners to build a revetment on Gardiner’s Bay toward the end of Louse Point Road.

A second round of bids by mobile food purveyors for the exclusive right to set up at prime East Hampton Town-owned sites, including the ocean beaches, will soon be considered.

East Hampton Town

A Place to Meditate in Eddie Ecker Park

A 50-foot-wide stone path in the shape of a labyrinth will be constructed in a section of the Eddie Ecker Park, on Fort Pond Bay in Montauk.

With a vote last Thursday night, the East Hampton Town Board agreed to accept a donation from Twelve Women, a local group, to fund the installation and maintenance of the labyrinth, a cobblestone path leading in concentric circles. Walking a labyrinth is a traditional spiritual and meditative practice.

Residents of a Napeague neighborhood along the Atlantic beach are facing down Memorial Day without the no-parking signs that stood for years along the west side of Dolphin Drive, and are predicting traffic and problems caused by people seeking a spot to park so they can go to the ocean beach.