Nancy Remkus, a guest minister at the Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor, was among 19 Suffolk County residents celebrated as a champion of diversity on Sunday, when County Legislator Ann Welker presented her with an award after the nondenominational service.

A mostly cordial debate on May 13 that centered on affordable housing and recent woes at the East Hampton Town Building Department likely gave both Supervisor Kathee Burke-Gonzalez and her Democratic primary challenger, Mayor Jerry Larsen, an opportunity to claim victory. 

Public opinion, policy-makers, and $5-a-gallon gasoline are all lining up against gas-powered leaf blowers. That was the backdrop to an electric-blower demonstration, sponsored by ChangeHampton, held on the Town Hall campus May 16.

East Hampton Village officials will conduct a survey of stores on Main Street and Newtown Lane regarding the potential extension of the street parking limit from one to two hours, and ending that limit at 5 p.m. rather than the current 7 p.m. 

The Town of East Hampton was awarded $7.04 million to build 16 houses at Cantwell Court on May 13, when the New York State Department of Homes and Community Renewal met to authorize the grant. 

Mayor Jerry Larsen led a village board discussion on extending a ban on gas or diesel-powered leaf blowers last week. “The idea is to be consistent with the other municipalities,” he said.

Suffolk County Legislator Ann Welker has endorsed the campaign of Chris Gallant, a candidate challenging Republican Representative Nick LaLota in New York’s First Congressional District.

One year to the day after an ivy-covered trellis fell over at Millstone Park, off Main Street in East Hampton Village, a plan to cover the side of the commercial building the trellis had obscured was revealed.

The implementation of a plan to reduce the flow of stormwater entering the 24-inch pipe that drains into Georgica Pond at the terminus of Cove Hollow Road in East Hampton Village was unveiled last week.

This image from the Amagansett Historical Association’s collection was published in Harper’s Weekly on Jan. 31, 1885, with an article about the capture of a whale off Southampton.

From matters frippery to consequential, it happened here.

Our latest mailbag unloads.

More on the realty front here.

After an East Hampton Town Board discussion this week on proposed employer-sponsored housing legislation, it was clear that changes would be made and another hearing would be needed on the proposed code changes.

A beneficiary of the trust that controls 13.5 acres of land in Wainscott accused the East Hampton Town Board Tuesday of misrepresenting how the town would use the land after a proposed purchase. 

An East Hampton Village plan to extend the dates during which gas-powered blowers are banned is missing a larger point. 

Well, it’s finally happened. Voters have approved the construction of an indoor pool at East Hampton High School.

Artificial intelligence has crept into the letters to the editor and I don’t like it.  

I appreciate King Charles’s defense of classical architecture and historic preservation.

The ne plus ultra in nonverbal communication.