After a public hearing two weeks ago on removing the nature preserve designation from the triangle at the intersection of Springs-Fireplace and Three Mile Harbor Roads in East Hampton, the town board is set to vote Thursday evening on a resolution concerning the future of the property.
East Hampton Town hopes a two-acre plot it bought last April — a dairy farm until 1959, home to cows that produced for a milk delivery business — will become a public park and community gathering space.
Friends and community members lined the sides of Springs-Fireplace Road last week to greet Kayla Kearney and her family as they made their way home from the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in New Jersey. The last eight months have been filled with surgeries, treatments, and physical therapy for Ms. Kearney, who in January was diagnosed with a type of neuroendocrine tumor that attaches to the blood vessels.
The Lars Simenson Skatepark in Montauk is a gathering place for skaters young and old(er), tall and small, as exemplified on Saturday, when people of all ages and genders from across Long Island, even up to Brooklyn, gathered there for the fourth annual Montauk Skate Contest.
An East Hampton Town justice sent a homeless man to Suffolk County jail without bail Thursday following the man's arrest on eight combined charges of robbery, attempted robbery, and kidnapping. Police allege that on Tuesday evening he approached three people — all male East Hampton residents, one of them a juvenile — in a parking lot on Springs-Fireplace Road, where he held a knife to the throat of one victim, demanded money, and "ordered" them to drive to an A.T.M.
Talk about a summer well spent: From science research to lifeguarding to volunteer work, teens on the South Fork kept themselves busy exploring their interests and making a difference in their communities.
The first $15,000 scholarship from East Hampton Village’s new paramedic scholarship program has been awarded to Ariel Engebretson, an emergency medical technician with the village for four years who recently started the Stony Brook University paramedic certificate program.
The jail pictured here was built in Sag Harbor in 1916 by George Garypie, with steel prison cells by the E.T. Barnum Wire and Iron Works of Detroit. It was used until 1983.
On Wednesday at 6 p.m. members of all the fire, police, and ambulance departments from the East End will meet at the Hook Mill in East Hampton Village for a short 20-minute ceremony of remembrance.
A Bridgehampton man was arrested on charges of illegal firearms possession on Saturday night following a traffic stop on East Hampton Main Street shortly after 8.
