It is movie season at the East Hampton Library and that means a screening of this summer's blockbuster "Oppenheimer" on Saturday 1 p.m. and the start of the library's Winter International Film Festival on Sunday.
Mobilization for the Montauk portion of the 83-mile-long Fire Island to Montauk Point beach renourishment project is to begin Thursday, with temporary road closures to allow mobilization of very large equipment including bulldozers and 35-foot lengths of piping. Beach infill is to begin next month, when an offshore dredge will pump 80,000 cubic yards of sand a day onto the downtown beach.
In papers filed with Suffolk County Supreme Court on Jan. 2, the East Hampton Village attorney said a petition filed by the East Hampton Village Ambulance Association claiming that the village had improperly transferred an ambulance service certificate away from the association, an independent nonprofit, and taken over its bank account, was a “slapdash effort” and a “frivolous filing” that shouldn’t be heard by the court.
The East Hampton Town Board came under sharp questioning from residents during last Thursday’s public hearing on the possible exemption of the new senior citizens center from the town’s zoning code and land-use procedures.
Nancy Carney is set to return to the Springs School. After fast-tracking its search for a new superintendent late in 2023, the Springs School Board is poised to hire her as its new chief school administrator on Wednesday.
Coyote sightings on the North Fork this autumn and a month ago in Bridgehampton are not surprising to those who study this wide-ranging mammal. Coyotes have never bred in Suffolk County, but with one-off sightings increasing in frequency, the question isn’t if they will breed here but when.
Clearing and other site activity for Cantwell Court, the planned affordable-housing subdivision at 395 Pantigo Road in East Hampton, is to begin as soon as next week.
The founder of a group that promotes fitness and the outdoors urged the Sag Harbor Village Board on Tuesday to improve the community’s access to its surrounding waterways.
The East Hampton and Amagansett School Districts have signed an agreement allowing Amagansett to buy lunches prepared by East Hampton for its own students.
The community at large has been asked to pitch in to stock the new Little Free Food Pantry boxes that have been installed at the John M. Marshall Elementary School and East Hampton Middle School as well as one that will soon go up at East Hampton High School.
