In a move that surprised many people, last week the East Hampton Village Department of Public Works removed about 35 arborvitae, each anywhere between 20 and 30 feet tall, that separated Herrick Park from the Douglas E. Dayton Arboretum, the 3.2 acres at the end of Muchmore Lane that was purchased by the Town of East Hampton starting in 2017 with community preservation fund money.
The East Hampton Town Board this week revealed some details and a prospective timeline for a contentious plan to build an estimated $75 million sewage treatment plant in Hither Woods to serve parts of Montauk.
Environmental consultants from the firm AKRF gave a detailed accounting of the environmental review process now taking off at East Hampton Airport at the town board’s work session on Tuesday.
As if playing a game of environmental football, Cornell Cooperative Extension scientists are hoping to intercept a large underground plume of ammonia in groundwater in Springs before it reaches the end zone — Accabonac Harbor.
Antisemitism has been amplified lately by celebrities who use social media to perpetuate hateful speech, and hate crimes against Jews are again on the rise. On the South Fork, antisemitism is being met head-on with action by religious leaders and lay people alike.
The East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals held a heated public hearing last week on an application by Farrell Builders to demolish a beach cottage, unchanged since the early 1970s, and construct a new house at 175 Atlantic Avenue in Amagansett.
Suffolk County has unveiled a revamped system of bus routes aimed at strengthening people’s ability to take the bus to work, with longer operating hours, service seven days a week, and more stops at train stations and employment hubs across the county.
The Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee would like to see streetlights added to the hamlet's commercial district from Indian Wells Highway to Atlantic Avenue, but it's a pricy proposition and one the East Hampton Town Board has yet to endorse.
The site restoration and stormwater abatement project at the end of Louse Point Road in Springs has been completed as of mid-November — well in advance of the projected time frame when work began early that month.
An amphitheater, a boardwalk, and Montauk boulders were among the items discussed Tuesday night when Ed Hollander, the landscape architect behind the nascent John Steinbeck Park, at the base of the Lance Cpl. Jordan C. Haerter Veterans Memorial Bridge in Sag Harbor, updated the village board on the project.
