Government

The East Hampton Town Democratic Committee will host a forum for candidates vying for their party’s nomination to challenge Representative Lee Zeldin in New York’s First Congressional District on Monday at 7 p.m. at LTV Studios in Wainscott. 

Employees of the Town of East Hampton, as well as owners of newly installed low-nitrogen septic systems, were struck by scenes of startling déjà vu last week.

One week after the principals of a bike-sharing company pitched the East Hampton Town Board on a trial program in Montauk this spring and summer, current and former owners of bicycle shops were among those pushing back on the idea. 

Suffolk Legislator Bridget Fleming has announced that four village mayors have endorsed her campaign for New York’s First Congressional District. Jeff Sander of North Haven, Peter Sartorius of Quogue, Kathleen Mulcahy of Sag Harbor, and Don Louchheim of Sagaponack have endorsed her bid to challenge Representative Lee Zeldin, the campaign announced last Thursday.     

The Town of East Hampton is among the municipalities the Sierra Club and Citizens Campaign for the Environment have recognized for sustainability efforts, Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc said on Tuesday. 

During the presentation, which also included data on the former Montauk landfill, one Springs resident insisted that the consultants were downplaying the danger of contaminated drinking water.

Neonicotinoid insecticides, also known as neonics, are doing more than killing bees and other insects in record numbers, according to a report issued last month by the Natural Resources Defense Council, an international environmental advocacy group.

The owners of PedalShare, a bicycle-sharing company that operates in South­ampton Village, Westhampton Beach, and Quogue, has plans to launch the program in East Hampton Village in the spring.

The legalization of recreational use of marijuana for adults is, for the second year in a row, included in Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s executive budget. 

Anthony Palumbo, a Republican New York State assemblyman who has served the North Fork for the last seven years, called his bid for the State Senate “a natural progression.”

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s commissioner announced on Friday the detection of a coccidian parasite in a sample of bay scallops collected from the Peconic Bays, which is believed to have contributed to the massive die-off discovered in the fall of 2019.

A challenge to a 2016 State Supreme Court decision involving the ownership of a stretch of Napeague oceanfront known as Truck Beach will be heard on Feb. 7 in the Appellate Division’s Second Judicial Department in Brooklyn.