The Springs School is having trouble attracting and retaining teaching assistants despite the entry-level qualifications, and despite a $200-per-college-credit bonus, paid to teaching assistants who choose to pursue higher education.
Hurricane Lee was unlikely, as of Tuesday morning, to have a significant impact in East Hampton Town, but residents should remain diligent in monitoring the storm’s path and expect rip tides and high surf over the weekend, the town's emergency preparedness coordinator said.
The finishing work has been done on a management plan for what is to be called the Brooks-Park Historic Site, the 11-acre property on Neck Path in Springs that belonged to the Abstract Expressionist artists James Brooks and Charlotte Park.
The League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, Shelter Island, and the North Fork will mark National Voter Registration Day on Tuesday with voter information tables from Montauk to Westhampton Beach on the South Fork, as well as on Shelter Island and the North Fork.
Long Island Rail Road officials have determined that the bridge over its railroad track at the western end of Cranberry Hole Road in Amagansett, which has been closed to all vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists since July 1, cannot be repaired and must be replaced.
A reunion for East Hampton High School's classes of 1980 and 1981 will be held at the Clubhouse in Wainscott on Oct. 7 at 6 p.m., and the committee organizing the fun is asking that spots be reserved now.
For East Hampton Town Litter Cleanup Day on Saturday, efforts to pick up trash will take place from Wainscott to Montauk. “Study after study shows the highest indicator that someone will pick up litter is witnessing someone else picking up litter,” Christine Ganitsch of the town’s litter action committee said.
HarborFest will take over Sag Harbor Village this weekend, with entertainment on Long Wharf, Windmill Beach, and in Steinbeck Park on Saturday and Sunday.
Developers of the South Fork Wind farm have completed the offshore installation of the project’s advanced foundation components, which were prefabricated in western New York and assembled in Rhode Island, on the wind farm’s 12 turbine foundations.
The Sag Harbor Village Board will hold a public hearing on Oct. 10 to consider a new local law that would allow the 93-space “gas ball” parking lot to remain open to the public. The proposed law, if passed, would allow a parking lot as a principal use on a property, providing the lot always remains open to the public and is free.
