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A culvert on Gerard Drive in Springs, built to increase tidal flushing of the north end of Accabonac Harbor, was not opened this year for the first time since its completion in 2006. A Drain in More Ways Than One

An $888,000 culvert on Gerard Drive in Springs, completed in 2006 to increase tidal flushing of the north end of Accabonac Harbor in order to minimize the threat of coliform bacteria and other pathogens, remains sanded up and closed.

Aug 22, 2013
Joel Johnson, soon to be a senior at East Hampton High School, will start the school year as a male student, after a recent surgery and legal name change. He Wasn’t Who He Saw in the Mirror

He has been open about the process, believing that sharing his story might help people understand and accept him and others in similar situations.

Aug 22, 2013
East Hampton Town Police and county detectives converged on a rented house in the Dune Alpin section of East Hampton. New York Man Arrested on Rape Charge

Jason Lee, 37, of New York City, a financial services manager for Goldman Sachs since 1998, was arrested Wednesday morning by East Hampton Town police on the charge of first-degree rape.

Aug 21, 2013
How to Behave, Part III

   These are the lemonade commercial days of summer. Everything is hazy and golden like an old photograph. Children catch fireflies in jars and old women fan themselves as they gently push the porch swing back and forth with their toes.

    Yeah, right.

Aug 20, 2013
Scores Plummet; Districts React

Scores on state elementary school tests landed with a thud on the South Fork last week, as they did throughout the region, with teachers and administrations left to grapple with failure rates that had, in some instances, more than doubled

Aug 15, 2013
Walter F. Bundy, a former Federal Emergency Management Agency official, delivered a report, “Description of Flooding Risk Faced by Napeague Stretch Communities,” to the Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee at its meeting on Monday. Move The House? Ocean?

An overflow crowd of members and guests filled the community room of the Amagansett Library on Monday night as the Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee heard grim predictions from a former official of the Federal Emergency Management Agency

Aug 15, 2013
Some residents have objected to vehicles parking on the sand along the Three Mile Harbor shore at Maidstone Park and have asked the East Hampton Town Trustees to impose a ban. Objections to On-the-Beach Parking at Maidstone Park

Trucks parked on the “baby beach” at Maidstone Park remain an eyesore and a hazard to children, according to three residents who addressed the East Hampton Town Trustees at their meeting on Tuesday night.

Aug 15, 2013
The organizer of a 10-hour Saturday dance party at Albert’s Landing Beach in Amagansett described it in a permit application as an intimate event for friends and relatives. Town officials now have doubts about that assertion. Dance Party Permit Called Flawed

The gathering, billed on the Web as Electronic Beach, appeared to have violated a number of conditions of its town permit and drew complaints about noise from beachgoers and residents

Aug 15, 2013
Town property on Fort Pond in Montauk, used in 2008 for a Shakespeare performance, will become a public park named for the late Carol Morrison, and remain in public hands, after to a split East Hampton Town Board vote this week to take the site, known as Fort Pond House, off the real estate market. Off the Block, Fort Pond House Will Be a Park

Fort Pond House, a building on Fort Pond in Montauk that was used by community groups before it was condemned, and the four acres on which it sits will be taken off the sale block and designated as a park to be named in honor of the late Carol Morrison

Aug 15, 2013
Staying Put in Sag

A glance at the summer’s real estate transfers as recorded in the deeds of Sag Harbor Village might suggest that the number of sales in the quaint enclave has been going down

Aug 15, 2013
Residents of Sagaponack, including Gerard Kleinbaum, standing, gathered Saturday to ask questions about the village board’s idea to create its own police department. Debate New Sagg P.D.

About 100 Sagaponack residents appeared at the Village Hall on Saturday at an informational meeting on whether the village should establish its own police force, and the result was more questions than answers

Aug 15, 2013
Tales of a Hamptons Waitress: Giving You a Hard Time

   “What was your first job in a restaurant?” I asked.

   “I was a hostess,” she answered. “I was 17. I didn’t even apply for the job.”

    Our waiter placed the appetizer, fried stuffed squash blossoms, in front of us.

    “Bon appetit,” he said in an accent that sounded authentically French.

Aug 13, 2013
House Sale Stalemate

A third attempt by East Hampton Town Councilman Peter Van Scoyoc to get a board majority to take the town’s Fort Pond House property in Montauk off the market was suspended Tuesday when Councilman Dominick Stanzione requested more time

Aug 8, 2013
Cyril’s Fish House on Napeague is one of several restaurants and bars that attract large outdoor crowds. A new East Hampton Town initiative could force owners to provide additional bathrooms. Nightspots May Be in the Crosshairs

Numerous seasonal establishments, particularly in Montauk, have prompted complaints in recent summers from residents saying that the use of patios and lawns has drawn large and disruptive crowds

Aug 8, 2013
Becky Molinaro was sworn in as administrator of the Village of East Hampton by Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. on Monday at Village Hall. Witnessing the swearing in were Barbara Borsack and Bruce Siska of the village board and Pam Bennett, deputy clerk. Board Says Welcome and Farewell

As Cantwell retires after 32 years, his replacement, Molinaro, is sworn in

Aug 8, 2013
But Do You Live Here?

Beach parking permits and mass assembly permits will be the subjects of public hearings before the East Hampton Village Board on Friday, Aug. 16

Aug 8, 2013
Tales of a Hamptons Waitress: A Good Waitress Is Like Air

   My first job in food service was as a dishwasher at a deli-cafe-catering company. It was the summer of my junior year in high school.

Aug 6, 2013
Quamine Taylor in a photograph released by police after an earlier arrest, allegedly returned to near Sean Comb's East Hampton house despite an order of protection barring him from the area. Combs's Stalker Arrested Again

A report of a “suspicious person” on Sean Combs's street Friday led East Hampton police to arrest the man accused of stalking the music mogul for the second time in two years.

Aug 6, 2013
Sagaponack Village’s board members will unveil plans to replace Southampton Town’s policing of their village with a department of its own. Town Supe Questions Cop Plan

Southampton Town Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst is not so sure that Sagaponack Village Mayor Donald Louchheim’s plan to establish a village police force will save the money he hopes it will

Aug 1, 2013
Money Race Starts With a Whimper

In East Hampton Town, campaign contributions and campaign spending so far this year may be most notable not for what there is to report on, but for what there is not

Aug 1, 2013
Share House ‘Brats’ Disturb In the Dunes

Amagansett residents told tales to the East Hampton Town Board on Tuesday about groups sharing summer rentals in their once-peaceful beachside neighborhood

Aug 1, 2013
During a forum at Gurney’s Inn on Monday night, Chris Poli told Democratic candidates for town supervisor and town board that the town should do more to deter businesses that violate the law. Listening to Montauk

Over the course of two hours Monday night, some 20 people stepped up to a lectern ticking off a litany of complaints they hope the Democratic candidates will address if elected

Aug 1, 2013
Michael Davis, a Sagaponack builder, is in favor of floor area ratio codes. Size Matters

Is bigger better? Not if you’re a local official trying to restrict house sizes on the East End

Aug 1, 2013
The Rev. Alison Cornish is stepping down as minister of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork in Bridgehampton on Sunday. Building More Than a Congregation

The Rev. Alison Cornish is stepping down as minister of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork in Bridgehampton on Sunday.

Jul 25, 2013
The East Hampton Ambulance Association is among those taking part in a new tactical ambulance program designed to provide better emergency coverage on the East End. Ambulance Services Are Increased

The tac ambulance system went into effect on July 1, with Bridgehampton, Sag Harbor, East Hampton, and Springs taking part

Jul 25, 2013
Volleyball Complaints

backyard volleyball games, held primarily by Latino residents in Springs, draw large crowds every weekend, along with traffic, noise, and litter

Jul 25, 2013
Employees at Waldbaum’s have had their hours cut back severely as part of the company’s efforts to reduce healthcare costs. Waldbaum’s Reduces Work Force

Part-time is the new normal for most of the 100 or so employees at the Waldbaum’s supermarket on Newtown Lane in East Hampton

Jul 25, 2013
The Gates Are Closed To a Child

The mother of Mr. Wasserstein’s sixth child, Sky Wasserstein, has sued the older children for access to the estate, known as Cranberry Dune

Jul 25, 2013
More Is More

Though clichés might suggest that neighbors are usually more at war than at peace, in a reversal of the Hatfield and McCoy paradigm, two neighbors in Montauk have joined forces to combine their properties and sell them as one

Jul 25, 2013
Vehicles parking on the beach at Maidstone Park have drawn the ire of some members of the Springs Citizens Advisory Committee, who complained to the East Hampton Town Trustees on Tuesday. A Call to Ban Trucks At ‘Baby Beach’

Vehicles parking on the beach at Maidstone Park have drawn the ire of some members of the Springs Citizens Advisory Committee

Jul 25, 2013