Dr. N. Patrick Hennessey, who has practiced dermatology out of the Wainscott Professional Center on Montauk Highway for the last 22 years, has relocated his practice to Southampton Village after being told to vacate the center. He was left scrambling, he wrote in a letter to patients, to see those who had booked appointments months in advance into September.
Kristie Reddick and Jessica Honaker, a team of Cincinnati-based entomologists, are on a mission to bring arthropod education to schools around the world. They will be on the East End from Oct. 10 through 17 for a series of school assemblies and workshops through Stony Brook University’s FoodLab, a food production and agricultural education center on its Southampton campus.
A vote on alienating parkland at the Sherrill Triangle to make way for a potential traffic circle that was planned for last Thursday’s East Hampton Town Board meeting was canceled. Two public hearings went on as scheduled, concerning properties lined up for potential community preservation fund purchases.
Tuesday is National Voter Registration Day, and the League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, Shelter Island, and the North Fork will be educating the public at tables across the East End.
During Monday’s meeting of the Montauk Citizens Advisory Committee, Eric Schantz, East Hampton Town’s director of housing, gave community members the opportunity to weigh in on affordable housing — and the apparent lack of it in their hamlet.
As Sag Harbor gears up for Harborfest weekend, work behind the scenes has focused on the popular whaleboat races. “There was a tremendous community effort to rebuild the whaleboats,” Ellen Dioguardi, the president of the Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce, said. A weekend of fun lies ahead.
Art and history at the farm museum, movies for kids and teens, a Lego challenge, a Y.A. author reading, and open play time at Hub 44 are all in the family activity lineup this week.
The application to install a pool and hot tub at the historic Huntting Inn, parts of which date to 1699, has been in front of the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals in one form or another for more than three years. On Friday, it is expected the owner, Tilman Fertitta wíll make a new appeal to the board.
A car flipped over on Montauk Highway near Stephen Hand’s Path in East Hampton on Sept. 3, following a collision that resulted in multiple hospitalizations. The driver told police the sun's glare blinded her.
East Hampton Town Police Chief Michael Sarlo has urged town residents to “be mindful of basic crime prevention practices, such as locking cars and front doors at night, paying attention to surroundings, and promptly reporting suspicious activity,” following a string of apparently unrelated crimes.
