Expansion of Montauk Shores Units Opposed by Town Hall
As a debate ensues over a septic system at the Montauk Shores Condominiums mobile home community, a county agency is reviewing applications for redevelopment of two units there.
Town Board Offers Support for Bees
A resolution supports legislation that would require notification to certified apiarists to attempt to relocate a “nuisance” bee colony or hanging swarm before pesticides are applied or other action taken that would damage or exterminate it.
I.Y. Halsey’s Newtown Lane Garage
In business for over 50 years in East Hampton, Halsey’s Garage rose from humble beginnings but seemed to find itself in the right place at the right time.
Recommendations to Improve Septic Rebates
To spur East Hampton Town residents to replace aging or failing sanitary systems to improve ecologically degraded waterways, the town’s Water Quality Technical Advisory Committee has recommended several modifications to the town’s rebate program.
Trestle Work Yields Pile-Driving, Rattling Noise, and Traffic ‘50 Cars Deep’
Hook Mill Road in East Hampton Village will remain closed to most traffic through Nov. 10 as construction crews continue replacing the railroad trestles crossing North Main Street and Accabonac Road.
Party’s Over at High-End Springs Rental
East Hampton Town officials obtained a temporary restraining order last week to stop parties, photo shoots, product launches, and other commercial activities at a 10,000-square-foot house in Springs.
Old Town Hall Gets Demoed
Demolition of the old East Hampton Town Hall building on the Town Hall campus at 159 Pantigo Road began on Monday.
The building has been unoccupied since 2010, when the main Town Hall offices were moved into the complex built from donated 18th and 19th-century buildings. The old building, constructed in the early 1960s, was already in disrepair and left to deteriorate.
Trump to Visit the Hamptons
With a segment of the donor class camped on the South Fork this month, President Trump is to attend fund-raisers tomorrow at a Bridgehampton house owned by the developer Joe Farrell and at the Southampton house of the developer Stephen Ross and his wife, Kara Ross.
To Protect Drinking Water
The East Hampton Town Board adopted a resolution last Thursday supporting the New York State Drinking Water Quality Council’s recommendation of a maximum level of 10 parts per trillion for perfluorooctane sulfonate, or PFOS, and perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA. The move follows the 2017 and 2018 detection of the perfluorinated compounds, or PFCs, in more than 150 residential wells south of East Hampton Airport.
East Hampton Officials Picture a New, Improved Herrick Park
East Hampton Village has hired a landscape architecture firm to develop plans to improve Herrick Park with new pathways, reconfigured ball fields, better lighting, and formalized entrances.