Government

For the seventh time, a governor of New York State has vetoed a bill that would have provided for reinstatement and acknowledgement of the Montaukett Indian Nation, a recognition lost 115 years ago in a ruling that former Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. has called one of the most racist decisions ever issued by a New York court.

“It’s been a wonderful time,” Ms. Brennan said of her 32 years in the East Hampton Town clerk's office, the last 12 in the top post. “It’s been part of my life, and I enjoyed every minute of it and most of the dealings that I went through.”

The East Hampton Fire Department has had “astronomical” success in recruitment in 2025, the Fire and Emergency Medical Services administrator told the East Hampton Village Board last week, with 19 new recruits representing a near-quadrupling of what is seen in a typical year.

East Hampton Town appears to have stepped down in a fight against a Further Lane homeowner who neighbors say is violating a decades-old scenic easement on their lands.

The Dredge Oyster Bay was permanently damaged after encountering a "really big rock" in the channel, and a new dredge, the Scrod II, has been called in to relieve it. The Army Corps of Engineers’ project is still on schedule, despite the many delays since it began just over a month ago.

A proposal by owners of the former Rick’s Crabby Cowboy Cafe in Montauk to double the occupancy of an outdoor bar area on the East Lake Drive property got some pushback at a recent East Hampton Town Planning Board meeting.

A proposal by members of East Hampton Town’s agricultural advisory committee to create a new way to review building projects at farms gained traction last week when it was presented to the town board and town planning director.

The bad news is the numbers of piping plover fledglings in East Hampton Town was down in 2025. The good news is the number is still better than in 2023.

Days after Mayor Jerry Larsen was sent a “cease and desist” letter from state, county, and town Democratic officials who asserted that his East Hampton Town Democrats for a New Town group constituted a “misuse of the Democratic Party name,” he and the chairwoman of the town’s Democratic Committee met and agreed to “lower the temperature.”

Following East Hampton Town Planning Board enthusiasm for renewed plans for an extension and renovation of the Neighborhood House, now used by Project Most, the architectural review board also welcomed the new plans, which aim to save the historic structure.

Amid all the condo controversy, the town board made time for a presentation on the town’s C.P.F.-funded water quality improvement program so it could be heard by the maximum number of people.

The back-and-forth story of the 79 condominium units proposed for 152 Three Mile Harbor Road and 33 West Drive now appears to be dead and buried.

Around 15,000 cubic yards of sand for the dune reconstruction project at Ditch Plain Beach in Montauk has been deposited, and the initiative to protect a residential neighborhood there moves toward completion.

If rezoning before the East Hampton Town Board is approved, it could lead to a 79-unit condominium development, the largest in the town. On Tuesday, the public said no.

After a decade on the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals, with five of those years as its chairman during the frenetic building boom of Covid, Roy Dalene is leaving.

The dredging of the harbor at Lake Montauk, which is to restore safe navigation to the inlet, hit a snag last month when “they ran into a really big rock.”

Representative Nick LaLota said he would welcome a “fact-based, politically neutral review” of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decisions with respect to a Sept. 2 military strike on a boat in the Caribbean that some have called a war crime.

The East Hampton Town Board’s recent hearing on proposed amendments to the town code pertaining to spurring the construction of accessory dwelling units was the subject of discussion Tuesday.

A town board vote on the proposed rezoning of two parcels of land, at 152 Three Mile Harbor Road and 33 West Drive, to make way for a condominium development will not be held Thursday evening.

East Hampton Village Mayor Jerry Larsen has been sent a “cease and desist” letter from the state, county, and town Democratic chairs condemning his “misuse of the Democratic Party name” in materials used in his campaign for town supervisor.

 The East Hampton Town Board held a public hearing to amend legislation pertaining to accessory dwelling units, or A.D.U.s, in order to spur their construction.

The East Hampton Village Board heard a pitch for the creation of 10 affordable apartments allocated to village employees, an effort to bridge a large and growing demand and a vanishingly small supply.

In 2019, the East Hampton Town Board approved a management plan for the Wainscott Green, where the Swamp nightclub once stood. That was before Hamptons Pride asked it to consider a memorial dance floor, sculptures, and pathways to and from the dance floor that would commemorate its unique place in local history.

The effort to remove trees killed by the southern pine beetle from Napeague and Hither Hills State Parks and other areas in East Hampton Town is underway, with trees being marked now for cutting that is scheduled to begin next month.

Last week, the Trump administration moved to weaken one of the most popular and successful laws passed in the United States in the last 50 years: the Endangered Species Act of 1973. If successful, the proposed changes could harm some iconic species on the East End, including the piping plover, the eastern tiger salamander, and even the monarch butterfly.

Playing on the name of his East Hampton Village NewTown Party, Mayor Jerry Larsen has launched a website to promote the “East Hampton Town Democrats for a New Town,” as he sets off in a probable primary battle against Democratic Town Supervisor Kathee Burke-Gonzalez.

Amid a squabble about East Hampton Village charging the town building permit fees for the addition of pickleball courts at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter and renovations at the Peach Farm House, at the Town Hall campus, both within village boundaries, comes the discovery that the town has no certificate of occupancy for Town Hall on file with the village.

The nascent offshore wind industry has proven its economic benefit — to union workers, businesses comprising every link in the supply chain, all the way down to the delis, gas stations, and restaurants surrounding such projects, a panel of professionals agreed during a round-table discussion last week.

New York State Assemblyman Tommy John Schiavoni came out firmly against the Nov. 5 federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in Hampton Bays and Westhampton when he spoke at the inaugural East End LIVE, a conversation on issues impacting the East End of Long Island held last Thursday at LTV Studios in Wainscott.

A nearly 10-year effort to upgrade a play area at Maidstone Park in Springs came closer to completion earlier this month. The town has budgeted $190,000 for a renovation meant to be especially useful to younger children and those with disabilities.