Paid Notice: Jason T. Noble, who hailed from Bridgehampton and Sag Harbor, loved making music and mischief, poetry and paintings, and friends. He died at home in Brooklyn on Nov. 24 of causes related to a spinal-cord injury sustained in 2000. He was 49.
After the town board agreed to slash the maximum allowable house size from 20,000 to 10,000 square feet townwide, the board focused Tuesday on recommendations from the Planning Department to change a formula that would also reduce the maximum gross floor area of houses by tying that to the size of their lots.
The spotted lanternfly, after making its first appearance on the South Fork last fall, continued its eastward march in 2024, with the fancy-looking insects showing up in every trap placed here by the Town of East Hampton.
It’s not the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade yet, but what is now dubbed Santafest seems to be growing year by year in East Hampton Village. This year it will take place on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and the parade will feature its first grand marshal, John Ryan Sr.
The East Hampton Town Board on Tuesday heard the first round of pitches for affordable housing projects angling for money generated by the half-percent community housing fund real estate transfer tax, which has produced more than $10 million since it went into effect in April 2023.
The real estate developer Jeremy Morton discussed his plans for the commercial buildings at 2 Main Street and 22 Long Island Avenue in Sag Harbor at a village planning board hearing on Nov. 26.
Kirby Marcantonio doesn’t always read East magazine, but he happened to pick up the Thanksgiving issue last week. Flipping through the pages, he found an illustration that looked familiar: a shark flopping around in Town Pond.
Several residents of the Lazy Point neighborhood on Napeague have voiced concerns at recent meetings of the East Hampton Town Trustees about a Suffolk County dredging project in the channel between Lazy Point and Hicks Island, arguing that widening the channel as proposed would allow water to rise and encroach even more on their houses.
A management plan for a new pocket park in Amagansett, featuring recreation and meeting spaces, had a public hearing before the East Hampton Town Board on Nov. 21, with just one speaker offering thoughts on the proposal.
The Diocese of Rockville Centre’s $323 million settlement in the bankruptcy case connected to a flood of lawsuits concerning child sexual abuse in its parishes stretching as far back as the 1950s was approved yesterday by Judge Martin Glenn of the Southern District of New York Bankruptcy Court.
