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Rocks Okayed At Georgica

The East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals announced Friday that it will allow Mollie Zweig to build a rock revetment to protect her oceanfront house on West End Road

Oct 17, 2013
Project in Dunes Headed for a Yes

Despite concerns about potential damage to the adjacent dune, Katherine J. Rayner appears likely to win approval to expand her house at 85 West End Road and build a basement underneath it.

Oct 17, 2013
Four Men in Spearfishing Arrests

Four fishermen, including a captain who works out of West Lake Marina in Montauk and two other local men, are facing felony charges for illegally spearfishing striped bass

Oct 17, 2013
Brian Smith’s sixth-grade science classes from the East Hampton Middle School joined educators from the Group for the East End at Egypt Beach on Oct. 9 to investigate wave action, biodiversity, and the physical properties of local sand. Middle School Class Sizes a Concern

Many classes at East Hampton Middle School have swelled in size since school began last month and are nearing 30 students, a number generally regarded by educators as the upper limit. Two classes have more than 30, with 32 eighth graders now squeezed into one section of earth science.

Oct 17, 2013
Feds and State Push Collaboration

East Hampton Town officials discussed the town’s participation in the Long Island Deer Project, a collaboration between the Long Island Farm Bureau and the federal Department of Agriculture’s New York Wildlife Services

Oct 17, 2013
Larry Cantwell, Dominick Stanzione, and Job Potter, candidates for East Hampton supervisor and town board, shared their thoughts on preservation at a forum sponsored by LTV and the East Hampton Historical Society last Thursday. Town Pols Pressed on Preservation

Faced with the decidedly loaded question, “Preservation: Have We Gone Too Far?” at a forum last Thursday sponsored by LTV and the East Hampton Historical Society, the candidates for East Hampton Town Board agreed that more needed to be done

Oct 17, 2013
Mikey Russell in 2008 after he helped lead the Bonackers to the Long Island Class A championship. Former Bonac Hoops Star in Jail Again

Already facing multiple felony charges in Massachusetts, Mikey Russell, a former East Hampton High School basketball star, was charged by East Hampton Village police last week with four additional felonies for allegedly stealing and going shopping with someone else’s credit cards.

Oct 14, 2013
Kathee Burke-Gonzalez, who is running for a seat on the East Hampton Town Board, with Afton DiSunno, a town trustees candidate, spoke with John O’Connor outside the Amagansett Post Office on Monday. School Board Know-How, Town Board Hopes

    Despite a forecast for rain, as Kathee Burke-Gonzalez, a Democratic and Working Families candidate for East Hampton Town Board, set up camp in front of the Amagansett Post Office over the lunch hour on Monday, the skies were blue, and an Indian summer breeze warmed the air and her mood.

    “This is the best part of campaigning,” said Ms. Burke-Gonzalez, who clutched a stack of pamphlets as she prepared to greet voters. It is a task she has repeated almost daily for months at post offices, grocery stores, and other gathering places across town.

Oct 10, 2013
The Atlantic Team at Douglas Elliman — Justin Agnello, James Keogh, and Hara Kang — has made aggressive use of online marketing strategies. What Works? Teamwork

The tech factor is a huge component in team forming. Many veteran brokers pair their market know-how with a younger agent’s marketing savvy

Oct 10, 2013
Joshua Young and Christine Lemieux's Mulford Lane house during a storm last winter. Not Just Any Old Landowner

Role in town government has been reinforced with court’s decision

Oct 10, 2013
Two Experts Urge Against Armoring

Two coastal experts speaking on Saturday at a Concerned Citizens of Montauk forum about options for rebuilding and protecting the Montauk shore unequivocally advised against placing hard structures on the beach

Oct 10, 2013
East Hampton Town Police Capt. Michael Sarlo will be taking over as chief at the start of the new year. Town Chooses Sarlo as Police Chief

The East Hampton Town Board voted unanimously on Oct. 1 to promote Capt. Michael D. Sarlo, 43, to the top slot

Oct 10, 2013
Cleopatra Panagiosoulis, the Springs School’s new assistant principal, and John Finello, the new superintendent, are getting to know the district. Springs Welcomes Two Leaders

Two new administrators are in their posts at the Springs School prompting many in the community to hope they will provide newfound continuity following the administrative complexities that arose toward the end of the last academic year.

Oct 10, 2013
Campaign Cash Flows

With Election 2013 less than a month away, the East Hampton Town Democrats continue to swamp their Republican counterparts in both the amount of money they have raised, and spent

Oct 10, 2013
It's That Time

I’m just a small-town waitress who was fired for saying too much in too public of a space. No hard feelings.

Oct 8, 2013
Tree Patrol

    East Hamptoners like to regale outsiders with how the village was once voted the most beautiful in the country, the consequence of its perfect storm of historic edifices, picturesque pond, and canopy of stately trees — most notably American elms.

Oct 3, 2013
Steve Couch of the Army Corps of Engineers discussed ideas for rebuilding the beach in downtown Montauk at Town Hall last Thursday. Soft Option or Hard Wall

After a presentation by the Army Corps of Engineers about beach restoration in downtown Montauk, the East Hampton Town Board began to grapple this week with some of the issues involved

Oct 3, 2013
Plan for Deer Aired

The Village of East Hampton will move quickly to control its population of white-tailed deer, which the mayor called “epidemic” on Monday afternoon, and a threat to human health and safety

Oct 3, 2013
Production company vehicles left this Amagansett lane essentially unpassable last week. All-Night Filming Prompts Angry Outcry

A Showtime film crew that received a permit to film in a number of East Hampton Town locations after meeting with Supervisor Bill Wilkinson to outline its plans prompted an angry outcry this week from Amagansett’s Beach Hampton neighborhood

Oct 3, 2013
At Left, Steve Tekulsky, who is running for East Hampton Town justice with the endorsement of the Democratic and Working Families parties, posed with his daughter, Kylie, at a Democratic event in June. At Right, Carl Irace, the Republican, Independence, and Conservative candidate for East Hampton Town justice, out and about at the Springs chicken barbecue with his wife, Alice Cooley Irace This Time Around, It’s a Real Race

There will be a new face on the bench at East Hampton Town Justice Court next year, as Steven Tekulsky, squares off on Nov. 5 against Carl Irace, to replace Justice Catherine Cahill, who will retire after 20 years

Oct 3, 2013
A Group for Good Government debate on Saturday brought together the East Hampton Town supervisor candidate, Larry Cantwell, second from left, and town board candidates, from left, Kathee Burke-Gonzalez, Fred Overton, Job Potter, and Dominick Stanzione. First Debate Is an Amicable One

The four candidates for East Hampton Town Board and the unopposed supervisor candidate, Larry Cantwell, squared off at a debate sponsored by the Group for Good Government on Saturday at East Hampton’s Emergency Services Building.

Oct 3, 2013
Fire Claims Life of Sag Harbor Resident

Police said that Wesley Carrion, 90, was pulled from the house by Sag Harbor Fire Department volunteers. He was declared dead at Southampton Hospital.

Oct 1, 2013
Tales of a Hamptons Waitress: No Fries, No Money

Recently, fast-food workers across the country have gone on strike to demand higher wages and more hours. They want to be able to make a decent living and stay out of poverty just like anyone else

Oct 1, 2013
Enforcement Spikes Volleyball

Seven of 11 backyard volleyball courts in Springs that have been generating complaints by neighbors were taken down last weekend following visits by East Hampton Town ordinance enforcement officers

Sep 26, 2013
Propose Effort To Fight Ticks

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said that the number of Lyme cases diagnosed nationwide annually has reached 300,000

Sep 26, 2013
Robert DeLuca, second from left, the president of the Group for the East End, spoke Friday about the East Hampton Environmental Coalition’s upcoming survey of candidates for town board and supervisor. Pols to Be Polled on the Environment

A 28-question survey asks the candidates to list their environmental qualifications and rank a range of issues in terms of importance.

Sep 26, 2013
Options for a federal erosion-control project in downtown Montauk include a series of rock jetties along 3,000 feet of shore. Army Corps Pitches Montauk Beach Options

The project is included in a federal effort known as the Fire Island to Montauk Point Reformulation Plan, which has been five decades in the making, with federal funding of the proposed projects therein a perennial question.

Sep 26, 2013
Everyone Gets a Bonus

One of the more bizarre things that happened this summer was that a table asked me if I knew who Rebecca DeWinter was.

Sep 24, 2013
Police Chief to Retire

East Hampton Town Police Chief Eddie Ecker Jr. confirmed on Tuesday that he will retire at the end of the year.

Sep 24, 2013
Condomania

In a land known for over-the-top baronial manses and quaint Shingle Style cottages, there have been few, dare we utter the word, condominiums, east of the Shinnecock Canal, that is, or west of Montauk, where a preponderance of motels can relatively easily be converted into condos, and even more easily into co-ops.

Sep 19, 2013