Government

The East Hampton Town Planning Board revisited a contentious discussion of a commercial subdivision behind the Round Swamp Farm in East Hampton.

    On Monday morning, the day after New York State’s Marriage Equality Act goes into effect, the East Hampton town clerk’s office will be ready to accept license applications for same-sex marriages.

There will be a 24-hour waiting period after a license is issued before a ceremony can take place, except for couples seeking second ceremonies — a marriage in New York after having been legally married in another state.

Advocate wants to know about obstacles facing the handicapped.

In a four-to-one vote last night, the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals quashed the Broadview Property Owners Association’s application to remove and replace a crumbling dock.

East Hampton Town

MTK Festival Ponies Up

    East Hampton Town has received a $100,000 check from the MTK: Music to Know Festival, which promised to make a donation of that amount for distribution to local charities in exchange for receiving a mass-gathering permit for the event. The two-day concert and “lifestyle” festival will take place at East Hampton Airport on Aug. 13 and 14.

At an East Hampton Town Board meeting last Thursday night, Debra Foster, a former Democratic town councilwoman, questioned the veracity of some of the data included in a report on housing in East Hampton Town.

East Hampton Town has been paying for health insurance for ex-employees who are not entitled to it, according to an in-house audit by the town’s budget office.

    From virtually the moment it was proposed back in December, the MTK: Music to Know festival, scheduled for Aug. 13 and 14 at East Hampton Airport, has attracted attention, some of it negative, from residents who said, among other things, that staging an event for 9,500 ticketholders in the height of the summer was just too much.

    Now the event seems to have attracted something else: a 13-foot giant rat that could be inflated near the airport, on Industrial Road, to call attention to the wrath of union workers over the hiring of non-union labor to stage the show.

East Hampton Town

Councilman Swings His Vote

    Grasses, not grapes, will be grown on town-owned farmland at Robert’s Lane and Cedar Street in East Hampton, according to a majority vote of the town board on Tuesday. The decision must still be formalized with a resolution.

    Board members have been weighing two proposals from potential lessees — one from a nurseryman who wants to grow native grasses and the other from members of the Principi family who proposed growing wine grapes there.

Extended Suffolk Transit service on the S92 and the 10C bus lines has now become available on Sundays and holidays.

An application for a four-lot commercial subdivision in East Hampton that has been stalled for the past six years over road access issues was the subject of heated controversy at an East Hampton Town Planning Board meeting on June 22.

Legislation was passed by the New York State Legislature last week placing a 2-percent cap on real property tax increases or limiting them to the rate of inflation, whichever is smaller. Intended to relieve taxpayers’ burdens.

    With the stroke of a pen on June 9, the Town of East Hampton endorsed the right of a Montauk mechanic to ply his trade on the otherwise gentrified shores of Fort Pond Bay.

Wind at Iacono Farm

    The owners of the seven-acre Iacono Farm on Long Lane in East Hampton want to put up a wind turbine like the one that was erected this year on the nearby Mahoney farm. The East Hampton Town Board recently received a letter from an attorney for the Iaconos apprising the town of the idea. Although the town code requires that the town board issue a permit for wind turbines, New York State Agriculture and Markets law, which supercedes town law, gives farmers the right to put wind turbines on their land.

    An application for the Hula Hut, a new bar on the horizon at the Montauk Marine Basin on West Lake Drive, was set in motion at the East Hampton Town Planning Board meeting on June 15.

    Proposed by Linda Calvo, the Hula Hut is to be in a 224-square-foot converted office trailer. It would have eight or nine bar stools, a railing where people could set their drinks, benches, and three picnic tables.

A grievance against East Hampton Town filed on behalf of union members who work in the town Highway Department alleges that the highway superintendent’s hiring of two temporary workers is a contract violation.

At a work session on Tuesday night, the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals reached a compromise with a family that wanted to keep a deck and pergola.

    An alliance between East Hampton Town and the Family Service League, a nonprofit group that offers counseling and other social services to town residents, promises to result in expanded programs for families, youths, and the elderly.

East Hampton Town

Grant for Photovoltaic System

    A grant from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority will reimburse East Hampton Town for the installation of a solar photovoltaic system at the Lamb building in Amagansett, which houses the Department of Housing and Community Development.

    The Suffolk County Legislature reversed itself on June 7 and will not transfer ownership of Sag Harbor’s Long Wharf to the village for $1 as it had proposed six months ago.

According to County Legislator Jay Schneiderman, the idea of unloading the wharf was initially floated by the County’s Department of Public Works. Mr. Schneiderman said the department had been unhappy about spending $100,000 a year on the pier’s maintenance and “not getting anything from it.” Under a long-standing agreement, the village has levied fees for the use of the dock.

A draft list of local charities that could become beneficiaries of a donation from the MTK: Music to Know festival was discussed by the East Hampton Town Board on Tuesday.

With the New York State Senate expected to vote on a same-sex marriage bill this week, Kenneth P. LaValle, who represents eastern Long Island, remains opposed to the measure in any form.

Things have finally been pinned down and repayments between funds outlined following an extensive forensic accounting effort to sort out financial transactions between town funds during the last administration.

East Hampton Town

A New Deer Committee

    Councilman Dominick Stanzione will convene a committee to develop a plan to address deer herds and their effect on the town, including the proliferation of deer fencing. Mr. Stanzione said he would include members of the East Hampton Group for Wildlife, the East Hampton Sportsmen’s Alliance, the town nature preserve committee, and farmers. Councilwoman Theresa Quigley has suggested that a landscaper be included as well.

Sick Days for Injured Cop

After razor-thin loss in 2010, G.O.P. Congressional candidate will try again.

A proposed amendment to East Hampton Town’s home improvement contractors law, discussed by the town board on Tuesday, would extend a...

East Hampton Town

Citizens Welcome

County Legislator Jay Schneiderman of Montauk will face off against Cornelius Kelly of Westhampton Beach, a Republican, this fall in his re-election bid for the...

In what Tom Twomey, the chairman of the East Hampton Library's board and an attorney, called "a landmark decision for the state and for the country," the State Supreme Court has granted the library permission to construct a 6,800-square-foot addition in the back of the building.