Government

East Hampton Town, which took a pledge in 2009 to become a state-designated “climate smart community” and has been taking various actions in relation to climate change and sea level rise, has been certified under the state program, the first of more than 170 participating communities to achieve that designation.

A sign erected on the beach at Barnes Landing in Amagansett is misleading, the East Hampton Town Trustees agreed at their meeting on Monday, and should be modified.

The East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals seemed to be navigating through a foggy sea regarding businesses in residential districts Tuesday night, after a public hearing on an unusual Wainscott proposal.

A Southampton Town Highway Department employee was suspended and new laws for Uber in Southampton.

Plans are moving forward to replace East Hampton Town’s senior citizen center on Springs-Fireplace Road in East Hampton with a new, larger building on the same site.

Despite its many nature trails through preserved tracts of woods, East Hampton Town lacks even one for people who need a smooth, flat surface — the wheelchair-bound, the elderly, those who are injured or less agile — can enjoy the outdoors, Mario Bladuell, an East Hampton resident, told the town board this week.

There was a sea change in the ownership of the Harbor restaurant at the Montauk docks this week, with the old management group bowing out and a new group, Grey Lady restaurant, stepping in.

The East Hampton Town Democratic Committee and the East End New Leaders will host an open forum on Tuesday’s Democratic presidential primary and the Nov. 8 presidential election tomorrow at 6 p.m. at St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in Amagansett.

The East Hampton Town Trustees were briefed Monday evening on the Cornell Cooperative Extension’s plans to revegetate local waterways with native beach and marsh grass species, as well as clams, bay scallops, and oysters.

Monday night’s meeting of the Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee was short, just 45 minutes, and reasonably sweet.

Food truck vendors chosen in East Hampton and blinking light project starts in Southampton Town.

After lengthy negotiations and a failed attempt to come to terms, East Hampton Town and its union employees have agreed on a new four-year, retroactive contract spanning from 2015 through 2018.

The need for affordable housing raised a problem for the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals on Tuesday when it considered an application that would require a variance to allow a homeowner to create an accessory apartment.

Both AT&T and Verizon are being evicted from a Cablevision tower close to the recycling center, on which they have been leasing space. Two other companies, Sprint and T-Mobile, have their equipment on a 150-foot pole already on recycling center land.

East Hampton Town

Time to Buy Recycling Permits

New East Hampton Town recycling permits for 2016 have been needed since April 1, for dropping off garbage and recyclables at the town’s two centers in Montauk and East Hampton.

The annual permits, which cost $115, or $55 for senior citizens aged 65 and up, are available at the town clerk’s office at Town Hall and at the Sanitation Department office at the East Hampton recycling center, which has reopened after being closed since Valentine’s Day, when its sprinkler system froze and there was a water leak.

The inlet between Hog Creek and Gardiner’s Bay in East Hampton was dredged on March 30 and last Thursday, after the Army Corps of Engineers modified a permit to allow the work.

A draft three-year capital plan under review by the East Hampton Town Board includes $18.2 million for a range of efforts from construction projects to repairs and equipment purchases and would require $10.7 million in new borrowing, according to a presentation by Len Bernard, the town budget officer, on Tuesday.

The plan calls for spending up to $5.5 million to rebuild the old town hall and for construction of a new senior citizen center, at just over $3 million, to replace an aging building on Springs-Fireplace Road in East Hampton.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s recent remarks about establishing a statewide licensing system for taxi and livery businesses, including services like Uber and Lyft that are summoned by an app, have prompted East Hampton Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell to send a letter to Albany, weighing in.

The Town of Southampton is working to come up with $5.1 million to elevate Dune Road from Hampton Bays to Quogue. Parts of the road can be impassable during high tides.

Whether that golden touch can give him a third floor on his Montauk house will be determined over the next few weeks by the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals.

East Hampton Town will move to require advanced treatment of septic waste in its harbor areas in order to stem the release of nitrogen into surface waters where pollution from wastewater has been climbing.

The East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals was in an Amagansett state of mind during its March 15 meeting, considering applications about two Beach Hampton properties.

East Hampton Town

Sanitation Department Flooded

The Army Corps of Engineers presented a plan for the Montauk Inlet on Tuesday that would combine dredging with a project to bolster the shoreline to the west.

Information about the effectiveness of the two East Hampton Airport curfews imposed before last year’s summer season will be presented at Town Hall tomorrow at 10 a.m.

Four hundred and sixty-three thousand gallons of sewage have not entered waterways over the last six years, thanks in large part to the East Hampton Town Trustees’ pump-out boat program.

A meeting of Montauk Shores Condominiums owners will take place at the trailer park’s clubhouse on Saturday at noon at which, according to a letter inviting their attendance, “the most exciting news to reach Montauk Shores in decades” will be presented.

Southampton Town officials are calling for a year-long moratorium on all new planned development district applications so that the town board can address what the supervisor called “real problems within the law.”

An analysis of how last summer’s overnight curfew at the East Hampton Airport affected aircraft noise and its related complaints will be presented at a meeting of the East Hampton Town Board on Friday, March 18.

A couple of months later than expected, but the Southampton Town Board has hired a new town attorney. Supervisor Jay Schneiderman’s pick, James M. Burke, was sworn in on Tuesday afternoon following unanimous approval by the board.