Government

Southampton Town received a AAA credit rating from Standard and Poor’s on May 30. The rating, the agency’s highest, was assigned to the town’s 2018 municipal bonds, which will be used to finance infrastructure projects as well as improvements to parks and beaches, public safety, and technology.

The Suffolk County Department of Public Works’ division of vector control planned to apply larvicide to multiple salt marshes in the Towns of East Hampton and Southampton yesterday and today. The action is to control mosquitoes through the application of methoprene and Bti by helicopters flying at low altitude.

The East Hampton Town Shellfish Hatchery building, on Fort Pond Bay in Montauk, is in need of repair and renovation.

The trustees are debating whether to grant a lease to Deepwater Wind to bury the cable under the beach, from which it would be routed underground to a Long Island Power Authority substation in East Hampton.

The East Hampton Town Democratic Committee will convene tomorrow night to select a candidate to run for a seat on the town board this November. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at St. Michael's Lutheran Church in Amagansett.

Elaine DiMasi, a candidate for the Democratic Party’s nomination to represent the First Congressional District, will meet voters on Monday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Elizabeth Dow showroom at 14 Gingerbread Lane in East Hampton.

Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. and State Senator Kenneth P. LaValle have introduced legislation that would prohibit state agencies from approving permits for sand mining in cases in which the sand mine is located together with facilities where waste is processed, stored, sold, or transferred.

The East Hampton Town Trustees, who derive approximately half their annual revenue from leasing land at Lazy Point, and a transfer fee on the sale of houses there, discussed the possibility of extending leases from the present one-year term to as many as 30 years, or perhaps more.

As part of the Town of East Hampton’s goal to derive 100 percent of its electricity needs from renewable, clean sources, Energize East Hampton, a solar and energy savings program, will be launched on Saturday with an informational booth at the East Hampton Village street fair. The fair will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Newtown Lane.

At issue is whether to grant Deepwater Wind an easement that would allow the company to land the wind farm’s transmission cable at the end of Beach Lane in Wainscott. Deepwater Wind has offered a community benefits package in exchange for the easement.

Members of the Montaukett Indian Nation traveled to the state capital on April 24 for an advocacy day called “We Are Still Here!”

Rona Klopman, a candidate for chairwoman of the East Hampton Democratic Committee, has filed a legal action against the committee to determine its “true current membership,” which she has charged has been manipulated by Jeanne Frankl, its present chairwoman.

Jeffrey Locker’s dream house is almost finished. It is on what the Town of East Hampton describes as pristine dunes on Cranberry Hole Road in Amagansett, abutting Napeague State Park on one side, with Gardiner’s Bay a stone’s throw away. Now, his brother and sister-in-law, Keith and Stacy Locker, want to follow suit.

The Town of East Hampton has announced the upcoming launch of its Energize East Hampton solar and energy savings program. The initiative will launch with an informational booth at the East Hampton Village street fair, happening on May 12 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Newtown Lane.

Instituted last year by Organizacion Latino-Americana and the Children’s Museum of the East End, the Circles of Strength (Circulos de Fuerza) workshop will return to the museum on Tuesday from 6 to 9 p.m.

Last Thursday’s deadline to file petitions to be on the ballot in the June 26 Democratic primary election for New York’s First Congressional District has claimed one victim.

The creation of 37 apartments in six buildings on what is now a 4.6-acre field on Montauk Highway in Amagansett has been scheduled for a public hearing at 7 p.m. on May 2 before the East Hampton Town Planning Board. The plans can be inspected at the planning board office at 300 Pantigo Place.

President Trump has signed bipartisan legislation sponsored by Representative Lee Zeldin that expands severely disabled veterans’ access to health day care.

The East Hampton Town Board plans to issue a request for proposals for a 30-bed seasonal housing structure to be situated on town-owned property at Montauk Harbor.

In light of the fall 2017 detection of chemical contamination of more than 100 wells in Wainscott and the recent discovery of concentrations of lead and chemicals in the surface water and aquifer around the Sand Land mine on the Bridgehampton-Noyac border.

As Deepwater Wind begins a two-year process of applying for permits to construct and operate a 15-turbine wind farm approximately 36 miles off Montauk, the Town of East Hampton’s fisheries advisory committee has chosen Julie Evans, the captain of a charter boat based in Montauk, as its liaison to the Rhode Island company.

Responding to pleas from state and local officials, the New York State Department of Transportation has agreed to repave eight of the worst sections of Route 114 between Stephen Hand’s Path in East Hampton and Sag Harbor by the end of this summer. 

Downtown Montauk’s ocean beach and bay beaches in the Town of East Hampton took a beating in the northeaster that hit the South Fork on Friday and Saturday, Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc said at the town board’s work session on Tuesday, though the town was spared the greater damage and higher winds experienced to the north.

The East Hampton Town Trustees have received a 10-year dredging permit for Georgica Pond from the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

With a pledge to revitalize his party and end single-party rule, Amos Goodman was elected chairman of the East Hampton Town Republican Committee on Feb. 7.

Zeldin Challengers Meet Tuesday

Perry Gershon and Brendon Henry, two of the Democrats hoping to unseat Representative Lee Zeldin in November, will share their views at a forum on Tuesday in Bridgehampton. The third and final forum in a series sponsored by Progressive East End Reformers, it will take place at 6:30 p.m. at Bridgehampton National Bank.

As a deadline looms for the submission of applications to federal and state agencies, Deepwater Wind, the Rhode Island company seeking to construct a 15-turbine wind farm approximately 36 miles east of Montauk, is facing headwinds from commercial fishermen and their representatives.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has called for a procurement of at least 800 megawatts of offshore wind power between two solicitations to be issued this year and next.

The offices of tax receivers around the country were crowded this week with residents seeking to prepay property taxes before recently passed limits on deductions take effect, and offices on the South Fork were no different.

It was Montauk night at an East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals hearing on Tuesday as members considered an application for cellphone antennas on the six-story fire control tower at the Montauk Lighthouse and learned that an expert has been discussing a possible sewage treatment plant at the Montauk Shores Condominium.