Jerry Larsen's campaign touted $132,000 raised between Sept. 9 and Dec. 16 last year, calling it “the largest fund-raising total ever recorded” in a race for the East Hampton Town supervisor seat. Some donors gave as much as $5,000, which the Suffolk County Democratic Committee alleges violated state election law. 

The town’s Building Department will be moving to a new suite at 300 Pantigo Place. “This will allow for scalability if more staffing is potentially requested,” Councilman David Lys said. This comes as the department works to solve ongoing staffing issues and process a backlog of hundreds of permit applications that is frustrating building professionals.

A much-photographed house on stilts that was surrounded by water since around 2004 fell into Gardiner’s Bay when the pilings holding the abandoned house, perched off the end of Mulford Lane on Napeague, snapped, dropping it into the frozen water.