Government

In an act of civil disobedience, commercial fishermen and their supporters once again drove onto the 4,000-foot stretch of Napeague sands known as Truck Beach on Sunday in defiance of a New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division decision barring them from doing so. Fourteen of them were cited for trespassing.

Suffolk County Legislator Kara Hahn has announced that she raised more than $200,000 in the third quarter for her campaign for the Democratic Party’s nomination to represent New York’s First Congressional District.

Ms. Hahn’s fund-raising total “was overwhelmingly fueled by individual grassroots donors giving $100 or less,” according to a statement from her campaign, with a majority of contributions from donors living in the congressional district. She has now raised more than $450,000, according to the campaign.

The East Hampton Town Board appears likely to temporarily close East Hampton Airport and reopen it as a publicly owned, private-use airport, with the understanding that conditions would have to be monitored for any unintended consequences of its goal to reduce noise and pollution. 

Five candidates, only one of them an incumbent, are competing for two seats on the East Hampton Town Board. Councilwoman Kathee Burke-Gonzalez, running on the Democratic and Working Families ticket with Cate Rogers, hopes to win a third term on the board. Also running are John Whelan on the Independence line, and Joe Karpinski and George Aman on the Republican and Conservative tickets.

East Hampton Village's chief lifeguard reported to the village board on Friday on the lifesaving efforts at beaches this summer. There were 179 rescues and no deaths.

A Route 114 paving update, and a restocking of shellfish in Shinnecock Bay.

Medivolve, the company contracted by East Hampton Town to provide Covid-19 testing at sites in East Hampton and Montauk, will no longer operate those sites.

The Nov. 2 election for East Hampton Town supervisor pits onetime allies, the incumbent, Peter Van Scoyoc, and Councilman Jeff Bragman, against each other, with the Republican and Conservative candidate Ken Walles also vying for the top job in town government.

In addition to the candidates for East Hampton Town supervisor, the town board, and the town trustees, there are four incumbents seeking re-election on the Nov. 2 ballot this year. All are running unopposed.

Robert M. Cornicelli, a veteran and advocate for veterans and the developmentally disabled who is seeking the Republican Party’s nomination to represent New York’s First Congressional district, has announced that retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, a former national security adviser to President Trump, has endorsed his candidacy.

Supervisor, Elect 1

Peter K. Van Scoyoc (D, W.F.)

Kenneth I. Walles (R, C)

Jeffrey Bragman (I)

Town Clerk

Carole A. Brennan (D, R, C)

Superintendent of Highways

Stephen K. Lynch (D, I)

Town Justice

Steven Tekulsky (D, R, C, W.F.)

Sarah Amaden has declared her intention to run on the NewTown Party ticket for one of the two East Hampton Village Board seats up for grabs in the June 2022 election.