Decrying “this headache called politics,” Dell Cullum, an East Hampton Town Trustee who was elected in 2017 on the Democratic Party line but was not chosen by the party to be on its slate this year, said this week that he would not run for re-election.
The East Hampton Town Board, having authorized a payout last month of $188,375.40 to Marguerite Wolffsohn, the planning director who retired at the end of July, voted to amend that resolution on Tuesday, citing an adjustment of her accrued vacation time based on the town’s department head employment policy.
A 59-year-old Hampton Bays man was charged with driving while intoxicated Monday night after he attempted to pass cars on Napeague in a no-passing zone. East Hampton Town police said Joseph W. Sinclair’s 2014 Jeep, heading west
The story of the Robert Southgate Bowne house, seen in this postcard, begins with a death notice recorded in The East Hampton Star on March 20, 1886.
A Bellport man was arrested in Amagansett Monday morning at 10 on a felony criminal mischief charge after he allegedly scratched the paint on the side of a 2019 Ford rental car. Police charged Felipe Zamora Luna, 38, with felony criminal mischief, but did not offer a reason why he vandalized the Hertz rental vehicle, only saying that the damage exceeded $1,500. East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky released him on his own recognizance.
Someone threw a handful of sand at Harry Ellis on Friday evening, knocking his glasses into the water near his East Lake Drive house.
There’s much more to Priscila Ortega than simply her status under a federal immigration program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, commonly known as DACA.
The Montauk Library will be busy this week with programs both practical and fun. On Saturday, kids in second grade and up can drop by all day to personalize their composition books with supplies provided by the library.
AMAGANSETT LIBRARY
215 Main Street, Amagansett. 631-267-3810
Grandparents Day reading circle, Sunday, 1:30 p.m. * Drop-in craft time, Mondays in September, 3:30 p.m.
The East Hampton Sons of the American Legion will dedicate a 9/11 memorial on the post’s grounds in Amagansett on Wednesday at 5 p.m.
