As school superintendents from around the East End discuss regionalization efforts, plans are in the works for a new shared special education program developed by the East Hampton, Amagansett, Springs, and Montauk Schools that will operate out of the Springs Youth Association building on the Springs campus starting in September.
A funeral for Judy A. Favata of East Hampton will be held at St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in Amagansett next Thursday at 4:30 p.m., with a reception at the family home to follow. Ms. Favata, who was 70, died on Friday. An obituary will appear in a future issue.
Sharing stories of challenges faced communicating with school staff, Spanish-speaking parents have asked the Sag Harbor School Board to add more bilingual staff.
A public hearing on an East Hampton Town proposal to alter the calculation that governs the maximum size of a house — going from a gross floor area of 10 percent of a lot size plus 1,600 square feet down to 7 percent of the lot size plus 1,500 square feet — was replete with buzzwords: community, resources, traffic, McMansion, greed, and sliding scales. Building professionals and concerned citizens stuffed Town Hall past capacity to offer mostly educated comments.
