Government

On a recent Sunday morning, the Rev. Karen Ann Campbell of Sag Harbor’s Christ Episcopal Church delivered a sermon reminding her congregation that “we were all once strangers” so “we must therefore always welcome the stranger.”

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority has announced that New York’s growing clean energy economy employed nearly 159,000 workers in 2018, according to the state’s 2019 Clean Energy Industry Report. Since 2016, the state’s clean energy economy saw 8.9-percent employment growth, more than double that of the state’s overall economy.

The Town of East Hampton has prohibited Analar Corporation, a New Jersey-based charter helicopter provider and management service for aircraft owners, from using East Hampton Airport for 90 days, citing multiple “unsafe and reckless” operations.

The two candidates vying for the Democratic Party’s nomination to challenge Representative Lee Zeldin in New York’s First Congressional District next year both support the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Meanwhile, Mr. Zeldin, who has been a steadfast ally of the president, has queried his constituents as to their support for the inquiry.

At the conclusion of last month’s meeting of the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals, the owners of 33 Lily Pond Lane told the board they would abandon their plan to tear down the house there and build a new one on the property, which is in a coastal erosion hazard area. But now they've changed their minds.

The League of Women Voters of the Hamptons has invited the public to three candidate debates it will host this month for town and county elected offices.

Orsted U.S. Offshore Wind and Eversource, which jointly plan to construct and operate the South Fork Wind Farm some 35 miles off Montauk, filed notice with the New York State Public Service Commission last week to begin settlement negotiations in the P.S.C.’s Article VII review of its application to install the wind farm’s export cable in state waters and on a subterranean path to a Long Island Power Authority substation in East Hampton.

Once again, for the third time since last October, East Hampton Town has sent a formal letter of protest to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation opposing expansion of the Sand Highway L.L.C. mine on Middle Highway in East Hampton.

Seeking to improve the condition of Route 114, one of the most heavily traveled roads on the East End, state and local government officials urged Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Department of Transportation on Friday to repave eight miles of the state highway, from Stephen Hand’s Path in East Hampton to the South Ferry stop on North Haven.

For the first eight months of 2019, revenues for the Peconic Bay Region Community Preservation Fund are down by nearly 21 percent from the same period last year.

For those who remember David Gruber’s early involvement in East Hampton politics, his alliance this election year with the local Republican Party might seem an unlikely pairing.

State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. has co-sponsored a bill that would permit cities, towns, and villages to reduce maximum speed limits on local roads from 30 to 25 miles per hour.