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Local officials appeared perplexed this week by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's concerns that public safety requirements were not being enforced on the South Fork.

The town board voted Thursday to spend up to $10,000 a month to retain a firm through November to help with communications related to health and safety amid the Covid-19 pandemic, including a redesign of the town's website.

Alec Baldwin Endorses Fleming  

Suffolk County Legislator Bridget Fleming has gained three more endorsements of her bid to be the Democratic Party’s nominee to challenge Representative Lee Zeldin in New York’s First Congressional District. Last week, the actor Alec Baldwin, who lives in Amagansett, as well as Kathryn Casey Quigley, Southold Town’s Democratic chairwoman, and Southold Councilwoman Sarah Nappa added their support to Ms. Fleming’s candidacy.

Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman has extended an emergency order restricting town beaches and access roads to residents, legal renters, and valid permit holders through Saturday. The order, which suspends existing town laws due to a state of emergency declared in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, is limited to five days. Mr. Schneiderman has been extending the order since it was originally issued on May 23, during Memorial Day weekend.

More than six months after a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the "manor house" condominium development on Accabonac Road in East Hampton, the 12 units remain vacant. Yet another test of the air there -- the fifth, at least -- revealed elevated levels of volatile organic compounds in their basements.

The Town of East Hampton’s energy sustainability advisory committee is considering a recommendation that the town declare a climate emergency, Councilwoman Sylvia Overby said on Tuesday.

Suffolk County Legislator Bridget Fleming, Perry Gershon, and Nancy Goroff all see a tight race with one or two of their competitors. The winner Tuesday will challenge Representative Lee Zeldin to represent New York's First Congressional District.

A State Supreme Court justice has approved Southampton Town's request for a preliminary injunction against Sand Land, a mine in Noyac owned by John Tintle, preventing the mine "from processing trees, brush, stumps, leaves and other clearing debris into topsoil or mulch and from storing, selling, or delivering mulch, topsoil, and wood chips."

The East Hampton Town Board is poised to direct a total of $1.14 million from the portion of the community preservation fund allocated to water quality improvements, for eight projects aimed at reducing nitrogen in local waterways.

On Monday evening, Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman released a letter sent to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in response his concerns that public safety requirements were not being enforced in the Hamptons.

Early voting in the Democratic primary election that will determine party’s candidates for president, New York’s First Congressional District, and the State Senate’s First District. Absentee ballot applications must be postmarked by Tuesday.

New measures will mandate tracking of race and ethnicity in all arrest data, and require "officers to report any weapons discharge within six hours" and to "provide mental and medical help for any person under arrest or any person in custody when they require it."