Editorials

Seeking re-election, East Hampton Town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc has proposed landing and takeoff curfews, something that was tried before and failed to cut down on noise.

Now comes word that Facebook’s leadership knew the harm that it and its apps did and that, far from being something they tried to stop, it was the company’s business model.

With voting to begin in three weeks in an important election cycle, a promising change to the way the East Hampton Town Trustees will be chosen is ahead.

A measure passed in the New York State Legislature could radically change how affordable housing projects on the East End are funded.

Some leeway in the community preservation fund law may have to be found for Fisher’s dream house to be used as an event space, as in for weddings.

On Oct. 15, the village board will take comments on a proposal that would mandate property-maintenance standards.

Early voting is only a month away in an important East Hampton Town Board election, but the real issues remain difficult to sort out.

Building is out of control in the Town of East Hampton and is changing cherished neighborhoods in the blink of an eye.

In 2015, when East Hampton Village officials took on a growing trend of extra-large residential basements, their concern was that the extra living space brought with it a range of complications.

Remarkably, the arguments in favor of keeping East Hampton Airport in operation were generally without substance.

Any and all concerned with East Hampton Airport will have an opportunity tonight at 7 to say just how they feel.

The public is not invited. That is the message of a recent East Hampton Village Board decision to go from holding meetings twice each month to just once.

So-called spot zoning is illegal in New York State, which made a recent East Hampton Town Planning Board decision to recommend just that a head-scratcher.

The death of Devesh Samtani, an 18-year-old summer visitor who had been struck by a car while walking on the side of the road in Amagansett at night last month, was an avoidable tragedy.

Ranking states in terms of corruption is difficult, but if it were possible New York certainly could claim a top position.

This is one of those years when nature has looked with favor on the East End, providing us with a beach plum harvest for the ages.

The United States was never going to win in Afghanistan.

One warning sign is that the present town board is not to be trusted when it comes to recreational or environmentally significant areas.

In what could be the first of sweeping relaxation of zoning laws, the East Hampton Village Board last week made it easier for the owners of large properties to get more of what they apparently wanted.

Do we believe that East Hampton could handle another decade of similar growth?

Ongoing conversations about East Hampton Airport could muddle public opinion, leaving a path for the board to avoid having to make the tough decision at all.

Certainly Covid-19 vaccines are near-miraculous, but they are no magic force field for everyone.

Questioning the value of offshore wind based on maintenance issues with the first United States project is a stretch.

Governor Cuomo should have been ousted from the Executive Mansion a year ago.

If there was any doubt before that Andrew M. Cuomo should no longer be governor of New York, a scathing report this week from the state attorney general’s independent investigation into his pattern of serial sexual harassment of women should have erased it entirely.

Landscapers’ trucks are everywhere — and getting bigger.

Beach amenities services would appear to require a permit from the town or villages. However, with so many miles of shoreline and limited awareness among caterers and others, the rules are routinely ignored.

Cellphone service is not all that bad around here — in February.

A fire last week that destroyed a family’s Springs house was notable in two respects — its cause and the conditions in which firefighters responded.

Juneteenth, the new national holiday marking the end of slavery as an institution in the United States, came and went in East Hampton Town and Village with only slight notice.