Government

Three solar power plants proposed for town-owned land in East Hampton and Springs would help East Hampton to achieve its renewable energy goals and earn it money in the process, but an initial review of two of the proposals by the town planning board on June 10 revealed a handful of issues that will have to be answered before the projects can move forward.

The standoff between the Town of East Hampton and the car-for-hire service Uber moved into the East Hampton Justice Court Monday, with six drivers being arraigned on charges of operating a taxi business without a license.

Some residents and officials in East Hampton Town were angered by last week's aerial spraying of methoprene, a mosquito larvicide, over Accabonac Harbor in East Hampton.

Nawrocki Smith, an outside auditing firm that also checks on the town’s financial practices, will begin working next week with LTV’s accountant.

The committee will ask the fire district whether the town might lease part of the big empty lot next to the firehouse for five years for overflow parking.

The announcement last week by the nationwide ride-sharing service Uber that it could no longer offer its service here due to town taxi licensing regulations set the wheels in motion for a confrontation.

The Wainscott Citizens Advisory Committee honored one of its own on Saturday, presenting Rick Del Mastro, a committee member for 30 years, with a custom baseball cap and a banner put up outside the Wainscott Chapel.

Lisa Mulhern-Larsen has joined Nancy Keeshan on the East Hampton Republic Committee's ticket for the November town board race.

Uber, which claims it can't possibly meet the Town of East Hampton's new taxi code, has asked its riders to tell East Hampton Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell the town needs Uber this summer.

On one side of the question is the now well-established and very popular resort-night club Surf Lodge, on Edgemere Street in Montauk; on the other, East Hampton Town’s Architectural Review Board.

Amos Goodman, a financial consultant who lives in Springs, was formally nominated by the Suffolk County Republican Committee on Monday as the party’s candidate to represent the Second Legislative District.

SunEdison, a solar energy company, will build solar power plants capable of producing more than four megawatts of electricity on three sites in East Hampton Town.

While a legal decision had been expected on whether three regulations that would restrict access to East Hampton Airport to reduce the impact of aircraft noise will come to bear, town officials announced Wednesday afternoon that the decision has been put off until June 26.

Detailed studies of East Hampton Town’s various hamlets are to be commissioned by the town board in an effort to plan for future development or preservation in accordance with the comprehensive plan.

The owners of Montauk’s Royal Atlantic Motel have asked to be included as defendants in Defend H2O’s lawsuit seeking to stop the Army Corps of Engineers from building a reinforced dune along the downtown Montauk beach.

Using the community preservation fund, the East Hampton Town Board has authorized the purchase of three properties, from which houses will be removed in order to return the lands to their natural states.

A 150-foot communications tower erected behind the Springs Firehouse on Fort Pond Boulevard has prompted an appeal to the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals that seeks to overturn its building permit.

Suffolk County Legislator Jay Schneiderman, a former East Hampton Town supervisor, announced his intention to run for Southampton Town supervisor.

A list of repairs and maintenance projects at East Hampton Airport was discussed on Tuesday.

East Hampton Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell, a Democrat, has won the endorsement of the East Hampton Independence Party for a second run.

The party, which made its announcement on Monday, also selected Councilwoman Sylvia Overby and Councilman Peter Van Scoyoc, both incumbent Democrats, as their candidates. Republicans will run Nancy Keeshan of Montauk and Len Czajka of Springs for those posts and Tom Knobel, the party’s chairman, for town supervisor.

Owners of large properties in East Hampton Village gave no quarter in their collective denunciation of the graduated formulas the village has proposed for limiting the square footage of houses and accessory structures.

After recent contentious public hearings, the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals rejected several applications.

The East Hampton Town Board is preparing to revise the town code to prohibit new motel-based bars and restaurants in residential zones.

A mental health provider inappropriately charged more than $150,000 to the state Office of Mental Health, according to the office of New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.

East Hampton Town

New Summer Event Fees

As the summer season of social events draws near, the East Hampton Town Board set new fees last Thursday for gatherings held on public properties or at commercial establishments. A $100-a-day application fee will be charged for parties, fund-raisers, and the like. A sliding scale was established for parades, marathons, triathlons, races, and similar events that use the town’s roadways.

Tom Knobel, the chairman of the East Hampton Town Republican Committee and a former member of the town board and town trustees, intends to challenge the incumbent, Larry Cantwell.

Signs prohibiting parking along Dolphin Drive on Napeague, which were removed after a parking ban had been posted there for years, will go back up, according to a resolution passed by the East Hampton Town Board last week.

The East Hampton Town Board set penalties for violating new laws restricting the use of East Hampton Town Airport last Thursday night despite challengers’ request for a temporary restraining order.

In the past year and a quarter, East Hampton Town has kept spending down, reduced costs, and accrued surplus in its various budget funds, Len Bernard, the town’s budget officer, told the town board last week.

In a report on the town’s financial affairs in 2014 and 2015, to date, the town’s Finance Department credited “prudent and conservative budgeting and close budget monitoring” throughout the year.

“A large reason for our good fund performance is because we spent less than we budgeted for,” Mr. Bernard told the town board.

The scarcity of parking in Amagansett’s commercial district, along with potential remedies and enforcement, were primary topics of discussion at the hamlet’s citizens advisory committee on Monday.