The Shinnecock Canal remains open to limited boat traffic despite the failure of a hinge on one of the lock gates overnight on Tuesday. The county is discouraging all non-emergency boat traffic.
The Bridgehampton man charged with illegally carrying a loaded Glock and two high-capacity magazines on Main Street in East Hampton Village pleaded not guilty before Suffolk County Justice Richard Ambro on Thursday.
On Monday morning, the start of the first full week of the 2024-25 school year, administrators at the Bridgehampton School abruptly reassigned a popular tenured teacher, Tom House, to home leave. Mr. House, who lives in Springs and is the founder of Hamptons Pride and its signature parade in East Hampton Village, has been employed by the district for 15 years.
While East Hampton Town boasts some large, well-known, historic cemeteries, less visible are the smaller family cemeteries dotted throughout the area. Some have just a single headstone. They’re visited infrequently, the families buried are older, and a handful have fallen into disrepair. Last week, restoration was completed on two of the town’s smaller colonial-era cemeteries.
Step into any municipal board meeting on the South Fork, whether it be East Hampton Village, Sag Harbor Village, Sagaponack Village, or East Hampton Town, and residents are requesting speed bumps to slow drivers down.
After completing a third work session in four months on proposed changes to the East Hampton Town zoning code, the town board agreed Tuesday that the next step was to bring the changes to a public hearing. Many members of the public and others directly involved with the zoning code amendment work group, a mixture of government and industry players who developed the proposals, spoke of the need to quickly move forward.
“People buy them from stores in the spring and then when they get big and messy, they no longer want them,” said Adrienne Gillespie, the hospital supervisor at the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Refuge in Hampton Bays. “They find local ponds thinking they can survive, but they can’t for long.”
Richard Warren had come to Monday night’s meeting of the Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee prepared with whiteboard, blueprints, facts and figures, to discuss the modernization of the 108-year-old Devon Yacht Club. What Mr. Warren, president and owner of the environmental planning firm Inter-Science Research Associates, was not prepared for was the dustup that followed his presentation.
PSEG Long Island, the region’s electrical power provider, announced this week that work has begun to prepare for winter storms and improve the reliability of its circuits in East Hampton Village, Springs, and Northwest Harbor.
“It’s all in line with what Sag Harbor wants to do on paper, and now it’s something we have to do in reality,” Drew Harvey said at the Sag Harbor Village Board meeting Tuesday night. Mr. Harvey, a member of the village’s parks and open space advisory committee, was speaking of a plan to preserve water access points at seven locations in the village, which, he warned, “are at risk of being lost to adjacent homeowners.”
