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Fall Festival in Herrick Park

Months after East Hampton Village held its first-ever street fair, the village’s first fall festival has been scheduled.

Sep 21, 2017
Bridgehampton Library Vote Is Saturday

The Hampton Library in Bridgehampton will float a proposed 2018 budget on Saturday that is asking for less in library taxes than the year before.

Sep 21, 2017
Dispatcher Now a Supervisor

James P. Foster, an East Hampton Village public safety dispatcher, has been promoted from the position of PSD II to PSD III, a supervisory title.

Sep 21, 2017
East Hampton Library Vote Is Saturday

A vote on a modest budget increase for the East Hampton Library will be held there on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Registered residents of the East Hampton, Wainscott, and Springs School Districts can cast ballots on the proposed $104,000 tax hike for 2018.

Sep 14, 2017
A Neighbor Asks About Possible Rats

Like its previous gathering, Friday’s meeting of the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals was brief, with a relatively small number of hearings on the agenda.

Sep 14, 2017
Outcry Over Posted Notices

Residents who spoke at Tuesday’s Sag Harbor Village Board meeting were concerned over possible deletions in the village code having to do with the board of historic preservation and architectural review and the posting of notices.

Sep 14, 2017
Village to Hire a Second Full-Time Paid Paramedic

In its first meeting after Labor Day, the East Hampton Village Board addressed public safety and issues that affect the quality of life in a 30-minute work session on Thursday.

An expansion of the paid paramedic program,  the use and misuse of air-conditioning, and the scourge of gas-powered leaf blowers were topics, along with the construction of a roundabout on Buell Lane, for which a bid was accepted. The rescue of a person in distress at Georgica Beach, covered in a separate story on this page, also was discussed.  

Sep 14, 2017
Sharkey Ride Is on Sunday

The seventh annual ride with the Red Knights’ Chapter 25 to raise money for the Donald T. Sharkey Memorial Community Fund will take place on Sunday.

Sep 14, 2017
Looking to Extend Shuttle

The summertime shuttle bus in Montauk, organized by East Hampton Town and provided by the Hampton Hopper bus service, carried about 1,600 passengers in its first week early in the season.

Sep 14, 2017
Library Budget Will Rise a Bit

A modest budget increase facing the East Hampton Library in 2018 has prompted its board of managers to seek voter approval for a $104,000 tax hike.

Sep 7, 2017
Calling New LTV Producers

LTV will hold an orientation workshop, open to any resident interested in producing a show at the studio or learning the ins and outs of video production, on Monday, at its headquarters on Industrial Road in Wainscott.

Sep 7, 2017
Harvey Help From Montauk

Just as organizations throughout the country assisted Long Islanders in the 2012 aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, a Montauk-based nonprofit has partnered with a national organization to assist victims of Hurricane Harvey in Texas. East End Cares has joined Team Rubicon, a nonprofit that deploys military veterans and first responders to the heart of disaster-stricken areas to help provide emergency services in Houston.  

Sep 7, 2017
New Village Website Is Up

East Hampton Village launch­ed a new website on Friday.

Sep 7, 2017
Sept. 11 Memorial

On Monday, the 16th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, emergency responders and the public will gather once again to remember those who lost their lives at the Memorial Green at Hook Mill. The ceremony will start at 6 p.m.

Sep 7, 2017
Zoning Board Ping-Pong Application Ends Amicably

An application to resolve the illegal conversion of an attic to habitable space was finally closed on Friday, with members of the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals expressing regret for subjecting the property owners to what the building inspector had likened to a Ping-Pong match.

Aug 31, 2017
Hurricane Help for Houston

To help with rescue efforts in the battered area around Houston and southeast Texas, the nonprofit East End Cares has partnered with Team Rubicon, a nationwide nongovernment organization that unites military veterans with first responders for rapid emergency responses.

Aug 31, 2017
Rico, right, and Gina, left, may be deaf and blind respectively, but like many dogs, they go right for a slipper to chew on. Gina and Rico, Blind and Deaf Puppy Siblings, New at ARF — and Waiting

This is the first time ARF has housed blind and deaf siblings.

Aug 28, 2017
Pretty Chickens, Ugly Vegetables

Fire up the ovens, get the chickens primped and pretty, and keep practicing those tricks with Fido — the Springs Agricultural Fair takes place on Saturday, with all kinds of contests to enter and prizes to win.

Aug 24, 2017
STOP Day on the Turnpike

Saturday offers a chance to properly dispose of household hazardous waste, as the Town of Southampton will hold a STOP day — for Stop Throwing Out Pollutants — at the Sag Harbor transfer station on the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Aug 24, 2017
Old Glory Will Fly Again

An American flag missing from the flagpole at the Founders Monument in Bridgehampton since early August soon will be gloriously waving once again.

Aug 24, 2017
New Competition for PSEG

A new energy company is offering East Hampton customers an alternative to purchasing their electricity and gas from PSEG-Long Island.

Aug 24, 2017
Amagansett Art and Images

For anyone who has not seen the exhibition of drawings, paintings, photographs, and sculpture by South Fork artists that opened at the Jackson Carriage House in Amagansett on Aug. 5, the next few days offer a last chance.

Aug 24, 2017
Sag Harbor Impound Yard Is Another Slow-Moving Project

A new impound yard for vehicles and objects obtained by the police was approved by the Sag Harbor Village Board on Aug. 8, but while initial steps were taken, the difficulty of getting projects underway, like those for Long Wharf and a waterfront park named for John Steinbeck, may not bode well for how long this one will take.

Aug 24, 2017
Plover Chicks: A Few Fewer

This year’s piping plover chicks have fledged, adding 35 young plovers to the limited population of the endangered birds after a protective watch and efforts to keep people, vehicles, dogs, and other predators away from them.

Aug 24, 2017
The mill cottage at the Gardiner home lot is being restored to its 1880s appearance. When the alterations are complete, it will be a museum featuring East Hampton landscape paintings. Cottage to Become Museum

Work has begun to restore the mill cottage on the 1648 Lion Gardiner home lot, on James Lane in East Hampton, to its appearance in the 1880s.

Aug 24, 2017
Say SagTown Jumped Gun

It is not just the ground coffee beans that are in hot water at SagTown Coffee. The business, which reopened nearly two weeks ago following the fire that destroyed the coffee shop in December, has been cited for violating Sag Harbor Village code.

Aug 17, 2017
Deer Fence on Lee Avenue, Chickens at Maidstone Club

In what Frank Newbold, the chairman, said was probably a record, it took the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals just nine minutes to complete its meeting on Friday.

Aug 17, 2017
Fair Now Fishier Than Ever

Get ready for some fishy business: The 85th annual Fisherman’s Fair benefiting Ashawagh Hall is coming to Springs on Saturday.

Aug 17, 2017
Support for Immigrants

Historical houses throughout East Hampton could be designated as landmarks, protecting them from demolition or substantial change, through a program being considered by the East Hampton Town Board that would also give their owners the right to build a second residence on their properties.

Aug 17, 2017
A Search for Threatened Bat

In an effort to detect whether northern long-eared bats, a threatened species, live in East Hampton, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has asked town officials for permission to set up a dozen monitoring stations on vacant town-owned land in Montauk and East Hampton for three nights in upcoming weeks.

Aug 17, 2017