Monday is the deadline for voters to request an absentee ballot for the annual school budget vote and board member elections. Voters must request them from their respective school district clerks; applications for such ballots are generally available on the schools' websites or in person in the administrative offices.
After the news broke that the United States Supreme Court, in a leaked draft of a decision, is poised to overturn the landmark case Roe v. Wade, several community organizations came together to organize a rally in support of abortion rights in Riverhead on Saturday.
A pollinator garden is soon to be installed in Amagansett, on the ocean side of Bluff Road between Hand and Meeting House Lanes, just west of the East Hampton Town Marine Museum, the Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee learned Monday as it got an update on a variety of things happening in the hamlet.
On Friday, May 20, town officials will meet at the existing senior citizens center with current users of the building and staff as well as representatives of the town's Human Services Department and the architectural firms designing the new facility. The public has also been invited to a listening session in the main meeting room at Town Hall on May 21 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Eversource, the Boston and Hartford-based energy company that is a partner with the Danish energy company Orsted in the South Fork Wind farm and other projects, may sell all or part of its offshore wind assets.
If voters approve a .5-percent real estate transfer tax in a referendum on the ballot in November, East Hampton Town will have what Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc on Tuesday called "perhaps the most important tool" to address the scarcity of affordable housing.
Clearing the way for the Peconic Jitney's planned Greenport-to-Sag Harbor service, the Sag Harbor Village Board voted on Tuesday to amend the village code allowing for limited seasonal passenger ferry use at the end of Long Wharf.
In honor of “See Their Names,” coming to the library on Monday, this week’s item features an 1803 agreement between Jason Cuffee, of mixed heritage, and Abraham Osborn, an East Hampton property owner.
Dennis Patrick Longwell, a curator and author, died in his sleep at home in Sag Harbor on April 24. The cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease.
A memorial service for Beverly Schanzer, who died on Feb. 14, will be held on Friday, May 20, at noon at the Clubhouse in Wainscott.
