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East Hampton Town

Digging Into Soil Tests

    Recent soil tests at the East End Community Organic Farm, which is on town-owned property on Long Lane in East Hampton, will be the subject of an East Hampton Town Board discussion. The levels of arsenic in soil at the farm, remaining from past agricultural applications, have been a concern for years, and members of the East Hampton Citizens Advisory Committee had recently requested a new round of tests.

The East Hampton Town Republican Committee is holding a meet-the-candidates brunch on Sunday from...

With pollutant levels in bays and other surface waters on the rise, tied largely to septic systems, Town Supervisor Bill Wilkinson said Tuesday that...

At a town board session on Tuesday, the East Hampton Group for Wildlife offered to raise money and help the town secure grants to pay for a...

A storm of protest blew up on Thursday when Montauk residents got wind that the Ditch Witch had lost in its bid to remain where it had been for years.

Thomas Burke and Rebekah Baker’s request for a zoning change that would allow the historic Jeremiah Baker house on Amagansett’s Main Street to contain one of a...

    The East Hampton Town Republican Committee made its 2011 nominee selections official this week, with Richard Haeg of East Hampton and Steven Gaines of Wainscott locking hands with Supervisor Bill Wilkinson at the top of the ballot. In an unexpected move, the Republicans also endorsed Stephen Lynch of East Hampton, the Independence Party nominee for highway superintendent. He will face off against Scott King, who is the incumbent and garnered criticism for his allegedly contentious relationship with town employees.

Grievance Day

    The 2012 Town of East Hampton assessment roll has been completed and can be examined at the office of the town assessors on weekdays between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. until Tuesday. The Board of Assessment Review will meet on Tuesday at Town Hall from 10 a.m. to noon, 2 to 4 p.m., and again from 6 to 8 p.m. to hear and examine all complaints or grievances in relation to assessments.

Seek Food and Tire Bids

Arthur French handed the East Hampton Town Board a check for $11 at a meeting last Thursday night. “That’s my tax savings,” he said, telling the board to...

    In the near empty confines of Town Hall on May 4, the East Hampton Town Planning Board approved the Reform Club’s application to erect two small sheds on its property on Windmill Lane in Amagansett.

Questions as to whether the changes to the property and its structures — changes that began in 2007 a year after Randy Lerner purchased what had been a modest seasonally operated inn — should have triggered site plan review by the board were rendered immaterial by the vote.

An East Hampton family that has tried for many years to gain final planning board approval for a four-lot commercial subdivision on land between ...

    Carl Irace, the deputy attorney for East Hampton Town, has completed the renewal of his New York State license as a practicing attorney, after a lapse.

According to New York State Unified Court System’s online records, Mr. Irace, who was admitted to the New York bar in 2002, is currently registered.

    The attorney for Kenneth Reiss of Driftwood Lane in Springs appeared before the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals Tuesday evening. Having purchased in 2010 roughly two-thirds of an acre that looks out over Gardiner’s Bay, Mr. Reiss has applied for a natural resources special permit to construct a 4,571-square-foot house, a swimming pool, a pool house, and an extensive patio within the setback zones for both tidal wetlands and the coastal bluff crest.

    The Southampton Town Board appointed William Wilson Jr. as town police chief at a special meeting on Monday night.

          “This has been a very difficult decision for us all because we have great respect and appreciation for all of the fine officers who were considered for this position,” Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst said in a statement, “but I am confident we have made the choice that will provide our town with a strong, progressive vision for the future.”

A pilot program exhorting East Hamptoners and visitors to carry in and then carry out items they take to public lands such as nature preserves and

Steve Bellone, the Democratic town supervisor of Babylon, formally entered the race for county executive yesterday at a rally in his hometown, making him that party’s de facto nominee and setting him on a collision course with...

A report on housing in East Hampton, prepared by a group of volunteers, outlines the challenges faced here, where the rise in housing costs has far outstripped increases in income and the population of schoolchildren has resulted in a heavy tax burden in certain districts

The East Hampton Town Planning Board has recommended that the town board deny applications to rezone residential properties in Wainscott and Amagansett.

Suffolk County Treasurer Angie Carpenter, a Republican, formally entered the race for county executive March 30, styling herself a more “inclusive” and “less combative” alternative to the retiring incumbent, Steve Levy, also of the G.O.P. She said the economy would be her top priority...

What appeared to be an innocuous request from representatives of an Amagansett business to add several sheds to its property divided the East Hampton Town Planning Board at its meeting on April 13.

The 2011-12 budget adopted by the Sagaponack Village Board of Trustees on Monday calls for both a total spending increase, from $556,858 to $563,180, and a tax-rate decrease, from 8.17 cents per $1,000 of assessed income to 6.7 cents.

The first quarterly report issued by the East Hampton Town Ordinance Enforcement Department shows that housing violations make up a majority of cases the department has been dealing with since the start of the year. Of the 265 code-enforcement cases dealt with or under review as of April 1, 75 involved overcrowding or other violations ...

Under state and federal mandate, East Hampton Town must design and implement a comprehensive program to deal with stormwater runoff, ensuring that it does not transport pollutants into water bodies such as...

Most of the worst cuts that Representative Tim Bishop had feared from a continuing resolution to fund the federal government through September did not come to pass in a deal struck late Friday night ...

Chris Jones, one of two principals organizing the MTK: Music to Know festival, got the attention of everyone at an East Hampton Town Board meeting on Tuesday when, kidding, he dropped the name Stevie Wonder...

Lawyers clashed at an April 6 meeting of the East Hampton Town Planning Board over where Ronald Lauder, a billionaire heir to the Estée Lauder cosmetics fortune, should put a driveway to the house he is building...

According to some neighbors of a popular East Hampton restaurant, the East Hampton Town Planning Board has more work to do before it approves a new roof for the business.

According to the New York State Unified Court System, Carl Irace, East Hampton Town’s deputy town attorney, is late in renewing his registration with the state as a practicing attorney, resulting in his status being designated as “delinquent.”

In response to an outpouring of community opposition, followed by a lawsuit seeking cancellation of a town permit, the organizers of the MTK: Music to Know festival, slated for Aug. 13 and 14, are seeking Federal Aviation Administration and East Hampton Town permission to move the event to an unused runway at East Hampton Airport. Should that effort fail, they plan to go ahead with the concert at its original proposed site, on farmland in Amagansett.

Lawyers representing a group of landowners on Napeague who are seeking to assert control of a long stretch of sand in front of their properties and the East Hampton Town Trustees, who claim ownership of the stretch, will have to wait two more weeks for a judge to intervene in their argument.