Nick and Toni’s weekly Wine Wednesday workshops, Yilmaz Guney of El Turco heads the kitchen for a new catering company, and Marilee Foster’s farm stand opens.
Nick and Toni’s weekly Wine Wednesday workshops, Yilmaz Guney of El Turco heads the kitchen for a new catering company, and Marilee Foster’s farm stand opens.
The Montauk Library is preparing for its first-ever teen clothing swap, in which high school students "can exchange gently used clothing with each other, engaging in more sustainable fashion practices."
Sag Harbor Main Street is scheduled to be repaved from Monday morning through approximately Wednesday, weather permitting. According to the village's Department of Public Works, no street parking will be permitted from 6 a.m. until 6 p.m. until the work is complete.
The Bonac boys track team opened the season with Comsewogue on March 29 and won 60-58 thanks to the 4-by-400-meter relay team of Isaac Rodriguez, Robert Stewart, Diego Rojas, and Brayan Rivera. The girls' meet with Comsewogue that same day ended in a tie.
Just in time for National Poetry Month, a three-session poetry workshop starts on Saturday from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Amagansett Library.
East Hampton Town police spent Tuesday morning investigating an anonymous email threat received overnight by multiple school districts and ultimately deemed it “noncredible.”
“It’s a record price per square foot for any commercial real estate transaction in the Hamptons, ever,” said Jeremey Tahari of Tahari Capital, whose father, Elie Tahari, sold the building at 1 Main Street in East Hampton for $22 million to Bernard Arnault, named by Forbes last week as the world’s richest person.
An unprecedented influx of 18 new students arrived this year in the Wainscott Common School District, a tiny school that educates kids in kindergarten through third grade and pays tuition to send older children to nearby districts. The influx led to sharply rising tuition costs and left the district facing an anticipated budget deficit of about $902,000 this year, as well as a projected increase in next year’s budget of about 43 percent.
An unprecedented influx of 18 new students arrived this year in the Wainscott Common School District, a tiny school that educates kids in kindergarten through third grade and pays tuition to send older children to nearby districts. The influx led to sharply rising tuition costs and left the district facing an anticipated budget deficit of about $902,000 this year, as well as a projected increase in next year’s budget of about 43 percent.
In East Hampton Town, the massive geotextile sandbags that are used to protect waterfront properties from erosion are allowed on only a temporary basis — for just six months with the potential for a three-month renewal — but in reality those erosion-control measures have sometimes remained in place for years.
The county leads New York State by a huge margin in pesticide and herbicide diversity and use, according to a report released by the State Department of Environmental Conservation last week. In 2021, a staggering 6.5 million pounds of pesticides were applied in Suffolk.
With its executive director, Scott Howe, retiring this month, the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons announced Monday that it has hired Kimberly J. Nichols as its next top administrator.
It’s been five years since a petting zoo sprang up at the Sag Harbor Garden Center for Easter weekend, but Linnette Roe, who is kicking off her second season as the center’s owner, thought it was time to bring it back.
Stony Brook Southampton Hospital has closed the Parrish Hall drive-through Covid-19 testing site in response to a decline in positive cases and the easing of New York State Department of Health and federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, the hospital announced on Monday.
The Long Island Power Authority’s board of trustees voted on March 29 to implement a standard time-of-day rate and optional “super off-peak rate” for residential customers on Long Island and in the Rockaways starting in 2024. Its customers will have the option to remain on a flat rate.
Michael Miller, who has been principal of the Bridgehampton School since 2018, is leaving the district to take the superintendent and principal position in the East Quogue School District as of July 1, and on Thursday the district announced that the assistant principal, Michael Cox, will take over from Mr. Miller.
The South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton has a variety of activities lined up for kids of all ages, just in time for school vacation next week, and there's a lot more going on, too.
Sept. 23 is the tentative date for a parade that will cap a celebration of East Hampton Town's 375th anniversary; festivities are likely to begin in June.
“The sentiment, I think, would range from discouragement to outrage right now,” the chairwoman of the Wainscott Citizens Advisory Committee said, as discussion turned to the Maidstone Gun Club, which hopes to renew its lease on East Hampton Town land even as a group of residents is suing the town and the club in an effort to permanently close it.
The federal Department of the Interior announced on Monday that the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement has completed a 60-day review of critical design and installation reports for the South Fork Wind farm, the final regulatory hurdle that clears the way for installation of the wind farm’s foundations and turbines.
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