Government

A recent cluster of Covid-19 cases in an East Hampton Town government department "really brings home the point that this is not the time to relax," Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc said last Thursday, after Councilman Jeff Bragman asked for a discussion of the cluster at the conclusion of a town board meeting.

Representative Lee Zeldin of New York’s First Congressional District, who is mulling a challenge to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo next year, grew testy when asked on Politico Live if he would state unequivocally that Mr. Biden "had won the election." He had insisted for months that the election was illegitimate and voted to overturn the certification of election results in Arizona and Pennsylvania.

In a major step forward for the proposed South Fork Wind farm, the New York State Public Service Commission voted unanimously on Thursday to issue a conditional Certificate of Environmental Compatibility and Public Need, a requirement in order for the project to move ahead.

The East Hampton Village Board will hold a public hearing Friday at 11 a.m. on a proposed law that would establish paid parking zones in the village's commercial district and at Main and Two Mile Hollow Beaches.

While an Assembly budget proposal threatens to take some of the teeth out of an executive order requiring police departments across the state to adopt reform plans by April 1, East End departments are moving toward meeting that deadline.

The proposed South Fork Wind farm is on the New York State Public Service Commission's agenda when it meets Thursday.

Long Island could generate more electricity than it consumes with mid to large-scale solar installations on developed sites, including parking lots, commercial building rooftops, and capped landfills, a new report says.

As the stratospheric price of real estate on the South Fork soars ever higher and the stock of affordable housing is commensurately diminished, the East Hampton Town Board looked approvingly on a proposal to build up to 56 attached apartments on a recently acquired parcel on Pantigo Road in East Hampton.

Starting on Wednesday morning, people will be able to schedule appointments for Covid-19 vaccinations at a new state-run site opening Friday at Stony Brook Southampton college campus.

The money was borrowed 10 years ago, with permission of the New York State Legislature, to address a financial shortfall due to fiscal mismanagement. The final $162,700 payment on the bond was issued this week.

Orsted U.S. Offshore Wind and Eversource Energy, developers of the proposed South Fork Wind farm, were to commence pavement borings in the roadway on Montauk Highway west of the intersection of Wainscott Northwest Road as early as Monday. 

With six women so far coming forward to accuse Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of sexual harassment or inappropriate behavior and alleged cover-ups of nursing home deaths during the earlier days of the pandemic and safety concerns about the newly opened Mario Cuomo Bridge, support for an impeachment inquiry is growing among Albany lawmakers.