The nine-member East Hampton Town Trustees manage many of the town's beaches, waterways, and bottomlands on behalf of the public.

The nine-member East Hampton Town Trustees manage many of the town's beaches, waterways, and bottomlands on behalf of the public.

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.

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. 

Retail cannabis dispensaries and lounges will not be popping up soon on Montauk Main Street, in Amagansett Square, or anywhere else in East Hampton Town if the town board follows through on plans to opt out of allowing adult-use retail sales and on-site cannabis consumption spots.

Collection sites will be established on Saturday in Bridgehampton and East Hampton for people who want to safely dispose of unused, unwanted, and expired medications.

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.

Also on the early voting and Nov. 2 ballot will be five propositions for voters to weigh in on.

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.

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.

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

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As a car and truck caravan of supporters of former President Donald Trump packed Main Street in Montauk, having rolled across eastern Long Island with horns blaring and flags waving, a small explosive was thrown from a white pickup truck, apparently by one of the participants.

More than two years after Drew Bennett, a town engineer, submitted a recommendation for repairs at the Springs Library, nothing has been done, the library’s trustees wrote on Oct. 9 to Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc.

East Hampton Town will honor the late Lt. Lee A. Hayes, a member of the 477th Bombardment Group of the Tuskegee Airmen, on Sunday when the Amagansett Youth Park is formally renamed for him.

Sag Harbor Village Mayor James Larocca put his stamp on the effort to develop a new zoning code for the village’s waterfront properties with a proposal that would expand the area covered by the code, create building regulations that preserve the village’s unique character, and require those seeking to build structures larger than 3,500 square feet to receive permission from the village board.

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.