If the giant blue globe full of gas were still there, someone would paint a smile on it. Just in time for HarborFest, the so-called "gas ball lot," where the globe once sat, but which has since become a 93-space parking lot of importance, will remain open after the village and Adam Potter, the developer who is to gain control of the lot on Saturday, came to an agreement Thursday evening.
Adam Nagler has raised $175,000 to support mental health by logging 3,500 offshore stand-up paddling miles over the past four summers, ending his latest solo ocean-borne trek, the Wicked 1000, at Vanderveer Marina’s launching ramp at the head of Three Mile Harbor in East Hampton.
East Hampton High’s field hockey team was at the top of Division II’s standings Monday morning, with wins over Pierson (Sag Harbor), Smithtown West, and Southampton already under its belt.
If you fish in saltwater in New York and are over the age of 16, you must possess a free Department of Environmental Conservation marine registry permit. But now the marine registry may soon cease to exist, as the D.E.C. is considering a fee-based license for fishing in the state’s marine waters.
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East Hampton’s boys soccer team had its first loss of the season on Friday to Comsewogue, but the players were quick to shake it off, routing New Rochelle 7-1 in a nonleague game played at Jericho High School on Saturday.
Scoring in every quarter, the East Hampton High School football team cruised to a 32-8 home-opening victory over Rocky Point Saturday. Hauppauge is next.
It looks as if the goats will be coming to Montauk. This is despite concerns from neighbors of the semipublic Benson Reserve, among others, about a 10-year land-clearing plan that the East Hampton Town Board appears to support.
East Hampton Town Police Chief Michael Sarlo made a case for the continued existence of the Maidstone Gun Club to the Wainscott Citizens Advisory Committee on Saturday, saying that his officers rely on it for training and that the training has never caused an incident such as bullets fired from the club hitting houses, an allegation that led to the club’s being shuttered by order of a New York State Supreme Court judge in December.
Tucked improbably between two yacht clubs in Sag Harbor is a wastewater treatment plant, its sizzling open-air pools of excrement a thing of beauty if you’re looking at them in the right way. Without the plant, which an treat 250,000 gallons of wastewater daily, Sag Harbor couldn’t support the diversity of restaurants and cafes that add to the village’s popularity and character.
