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The Poxabogue Golf Center, which also includes the Fairway restaurant, a popular breakfast spot with locals, is in the midst of renovations, as evidenced by a high chain-link fence surrounding the Sagaponack facility.

In what is being described by some Sag Harbor residents as a great loss, the Southampton Town Board voted on Tuesday to eliminate a special parking accommodation that’s been on the books for over 40 years.

Thus far, one big advantage Supervisor Kathee Burke-Gonzalez has received from becoming the chosen candidate of the East Hampton Town Democratic Committee at its Jan. 14 nominating convention is that it and the Suffolk County Democratic Committee have since been attacking her primary opponent, Village Mayor Jerry Larsen.

Circuit, a ride share service born in East Hampton that has expanded to 50 cities in seven states, may be coming to Sag Harbor by Memorial Day weekend.

At the inaugural meeting of East Hampton Town’s newly reconstituted Latino advisory committee, much of the discussion centered around the local police force and its potential role should federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement action accelerate on the East End.

A house on stilts at the end of Mulford Lane on Napeague has now completely succumbed to the icy waters of Gardiner’s Bay.

As they look to move closer to reopening the east channel of Napeague Harbor, the East Hampton Town Trustees voted on Monday to hire George Walbridge Surveyors to provide updated baseline mapping and conduct upland topographic and other surveys.

In discussing the devastation wrought by the invasive southern pine beetle on pine trees in Hither Hills and Napeague State Parks, state officials sent a message of resilience and the promise that “we are going to make a new forest, and it’s going to be great.” That effort starts Friday with a controlled burn.

With dangerous cold and high winds expected Saturday, East Hampton Town and Village will have a number of warming centers open, from libraries to the Emergency Services Building.

The town’s Building Department will be moving to a new suite at 300 Pantigo Place. “This will allow for scalability if more staffing is potentially requested,” Councilman David Lys said. This comes as the department works to solve ongoing staffing issues and process a backlog of hundreds of permit applications that is frustrating building professionals.

Some Sag Harbor residents could find themselves having to purchase nonresident beach parking passes if a proposed amendment to the Southampton Town code passes. The passes would cost $500.

A United States District Court has granted a preliminary injunction allowing construction of the 924-megawatt Sunrise Wind farm in federal waters east of Montauk Point to continue. It will generate electricity sufficient to power nearly 600,000 residences.

How the public will use the town’s $56 million C.P.F. purchase at 66 Main Street in Wainscott came into slightly clearer focus as Scott Wilson, the land acquisition director, presented final edits on a draft management plan for the property, which will be the topic of a public hearing on March 19.

Jerry Larsen’s campaign touted $132,000 raised between Sept. 9 and Dec. 16 last year, calling it “the largest fund-raising total ever recorded” in a race for the East Hampton Town supervisor seat. Some donors gave as much as $5,000, which the Suffolk County Democratic Committee alleges violated state election law. 

A much-photographed house on stilts that was surrounded by water since around 2004 fell into Gardiner’s Bay last weekend when the pilings holding the abandoned house, perched off the end of Mulford Lane on Napeague, snapped. On Friday, it slipped further into the frozen water.

The East Hampton Town Board intends to modify parking restrictions on Edgemere Street in Montauk, possibly in time for Memorial Day weekend, to improve public safety on a stretch of road where the Surf Lodge has tied up traffic and created dangerous conditions for motorists and pedestrians alike.

East Hampton Town Airport would get a permanent control tower, ultimately costing $6.5 million, if Jim Brundige, its director, has his wish.

State officials will hold a public meeting Tuesday evening at Montauk Downs to discuss a habitat restoration project in response to southern pine beetle impacts at Napeague State Park and Hither Hills State Park.

The East Hampton Town Trustees took another step forward in their long-discussed plan to reopen the east channel of Napeague Harbor, which began to close early in this century and has been completely closed since 2012.

When big storms hit, Steve Lynch oversees an operation that straddles both the public and private worlds and needs to be manned nonstop, sometimes for days. The town bolsters its 32 trucks with outside contractors and personnel to form an army of 50 plows.

In the wake of the deaths of two American citizens in Minneapolis at the hands of federal officers involved in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdown in the city, hundreds of people here have signed up to be part of a Rapid Response team organized by Organizacion Latino Americana of Eastern Long Island.

Sag Harbor Village is the recipient of a $34,091 New York State grant to develop an engineering study to replace failing septic systems in the Redwood neighborhood with a decentralized wastewater collection and treatment system to reduce nitrogen and pathogen loading in Sag Harbor Cove.

The East Hampton Town Trustees voted to increase the amount of the annual scholarship awarded an East Hampton High School senior from $1,500 to $3,000 this year, but how to finance it was a subject of discussion Monday.

The East Hampton Town Trustees were of two minds about a proposed East Hampton Village law to extend the prohibition of dogs and trucks on village beaches from Sept. 15 to Columbus Day.

The offshore wind industry, despite a sustained campaign against it by the Trump administration, won another round on Jan. 15 when a United States District Court granted the developer of the Empire Wind 1 farm a preliminary injunction that allows construction of the 54-turbine, 810-megawatt project to resume.

East Hampton Town and Village along with Sag Harbor Village and Southampton Town all declared states of emergency ahead of Sunday’s snow and ice storm, mirroring actions by Suffolk County and New York State. Government offices and facilities will be closed on Monday, as will local schools.

“The recent actions from Jerry Larsen — encouraging voters to change their party enrollment solely to influence the outcome of a Democratic primary and sway the results in his direction — are deeply troubling,” the county chairman said. Mr. Larsen countered that it’s just democracy in action.

A popular beach access point to a surf spot known as the Ranch, used by generations of Montauk surfers and fishermen, could be jeopardized if a subdivision application introduced to the East Hampton Town Planning Board earlier this month is approved.

Because of the extreme weather forecast for the coming days, the sale of 2026 permits to park at East Hampton Village beaches has been postponed from Tuesday to Thursday, Jan. 29. The one-day, in-person sale for town residents will be held at the Emergency Services Building.

n a hearing that could have implications for multiple properties, the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals considered the Jewish Center of the Hamptons’ appeal of the building inspector’s interpretation of “residential property.” The center hopes to see driveways exempted a parcel’s coverage calculation.