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At Rita Cantina, a Question of Semantics?

For years, restaurants have operated at the Springs location in apparent harmony with their surroundings. Rita Cantina has been different. Ann Glennon, the town’s principal building inspector, and nearby residents say its use of the property has risen to unacceptable levels.

Sep 14, 2022
A Malware Mess for Suffolk County

Suffolk County has been dealing with a weeklong malware mess that compelled it to hit the kill switch on its computer systems last week.

Sep 14, 2022
Hochul Holds 15-Point Lead

Gov. Kathy Hochul continues to hold a double-digit lead over Representative Lee Zeldin, her challenger, according to a recent Emerson College poll.

Sep 14, 2022
Three Airport Lawsuits Combined

The New York State Supreme Court Justice who issued a temporary restraining order on May 16 blocking East Hampton Town from closing East Hampton Airport and reopening it as a private facility with new restrictions has ordered that three lawsuits challenging the town’s plan be combined.

Sep 14, 2022
'Last Mile' Commuter Shuttle Bus Added in East Hampton

The "last mile" shuttle bus service that takes passengers from the Long Island Rail Road's South Fork Commuter Connection trains to their destinations and back again expanded in East Hampton Town this week. 

Sep 12, 2022
Support for Stop Signs on Town Line Road

The East Hampton Town Board heard from several supportive Wainscott residents last Thursday when it held public hearings on the addition of stop signs at certain intersections, and a prohibition on parking, on the east side of Town Line Road.

Sep 8, 2022
Upgrades Near, Less So in Springs

An upgrade of the town’s emergency services communications infrastructure that began in 2017 is mostly complete, but still outstanding is the node in the system that would cover Springs. And at a meeting on Tuesday residents loudly vented about poor to nonexistent personal wireless coverage and a gap in emergency communications coverage in the hamlet.

Sep 8, 2022
Town Adopts Coastal Plan

By a 4-to-0 vote, the East Hampton Town Board adopted the Coastal Assessment Resilience Plan, known as CARP, into the town’s comprehensive plan last Thursday.

Sep 8, 2022
Poll Shows Zeldin Gaining

Representative Lee Zeldin, the Republican and Conservative Parties’ nominee for governor of New York, is touting a new poll that has him trailing Gov. Kathy Hochul by just 4.4 percentage points, which sharply diverges from previous polls that had the governor holding double-digit leads.

Sep 8, 2022
A Sea Change on Amagansett Main Street?

“My initial reaction is, it’s too much," the chairman of the East Hampton Town Planning Board said of a plan to redevelop the parcel at 136 Main Street in Amagansett, where the owners want to renovate the historic building that fronts the long, narrow lot and add a new 7,200-square-foot building with six storefronts on the lower level and four affordable-housing units upstairs behind it.

Sep 8, 2022
Housing Fund Vote Forum

The League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, Shelter Island, and the North Fork will host a virtual forum on the Nov. 8 ballot proposition that will ask voters to approve a .5-percent real estate transfer tax that would support the community housing opportunity fund.

Sep 8, 2022
Suffolk Legislators Want Plum Island Preservation

All 18 members of the Suffolk County Legislature have signed a letter to President Joe Biden imploring him to declare Plum Island a national monument under the authority granted by the Antiquities Act of 1906 “for the purpose of ecological conservation, historical preservation, and the discovery and celebration of our shared cultural heritage.”

Sep 8, 2022