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Town Trustees Debate Hatchery Move

Anger over the East Hampton Town Board’s plan to relocate the town’s shellfish hatchery to a residential area in Springs spilled over to the town trustees’ meeting on Monday.

Duryea’s C. of O. Revoked but Still Stands

On Aug. 13, the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals voted 4-to-0, with one recusal, to revoke the certificate of occupancy issued in February for Duryea’s Lobster Deck, the latest turn in a long-running controversy over the Montauk property that was purchased by the billionaire investor Marc Rowan in 2014.

Sag Harbor Learning Center Won’t Be Ready on Time

The Sag Harbor School District may not move its prekindergarten classes to the new Sag Harbor Learning Center until mid-November because construction there is still underway, officials said Monday night.

Thief Caught on Camera

Over in Sag Harbor early Monday morning, Nikita S. Bykov of Brooklyn was charged with felony grand larceny after he allegedly stole a purse, containing $5,000 in cash, at Murf’s Backstreet Tavern.

Schools Get Sizable Grant for Radios

The East Hampton School District took the lead about a year ago to apply for a state grant for radio upgrades on behalf of all schools in the town, and has received word it will receive $125,000 to share among those districts.

Who Says Learning Can’t Be Playful?

After successfully piloting a summer camp for the last several weeks, a new educational center in East Hampton Village will kick off the coming school year with daily programs for toddlers and after-school activities for elementary children.

To Catalog Maps, Deeds, Roads, and Creeks of Northwest

The East Hampton Town Trustees, having determined that they should catalog their holdings and related properties in the area of Northwest Harbor, will engage two professionals with extensive experience in title research and historical records to do the job.

After the 1967 Powwow

Item of the Week From the East Hampton Library Long Island Collection

In the Studio for Wildlife

Disappointed but determined after the East Hampton Town Board’s cool reception to the East Hampton Group for Wildlife’s request for a one-weekend-day ban on hunting, a member of the group is planning to communicate support for animal rights by recording a song.

On the Police Logs 08.29.19

Two men were arguing on Saturday evening at around 8:30 about a car being blocked in, in a North Main Street parking spot. The man who called police said the other man was trying to gain access to his Bentley convertible.

Kids Culture 08.29.19

The Hampton Library in Bridgehampton will celebrate the end of summer and the conclusion of the summer reading club with a party on Saturday from 1 to 3 p.m.

Neighbors in Action at Food Pantry

Around for more than 25 years, the pantry’s main location serves up to 180 households of varying sizes each week, said Stacy Holmes, the administrative assistant.

That Itch? It’s Not Chiggers

As Labor Day approaches, so too does the height of tick season on the East End. An explosion of dozens of red bites up and down legs spells out quite an itch for victims, as well as perhaps some more dangerous side effects.

Weekend D.W.I. Arrests

Two 32-year-olds were arrested on drunken driving charges over the weekend.

Mary Ella Reutershan

Mary Ella Reutershan, whose lifelong political associations, both national and local, began during World War II when she was a confidential secretary to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, died on Aug. 14 at the age of 98 at Peconic Landing, the retirement community in Greenport.

Richard Rosenthal, Advocate for Disabled

Richard Rosenthal, a longtime advocate for people with disabilities and the former chairman of East Hampton Town’s Anti-Bias Task Force, died of complications from pneumonia on Aug. 17 at home in East Hampton. He was 93.

Mary Lee Abbott, Abstract Expressionist Artist, 98

Mary Lee Abbott, a noted American painter and art teacher who was one of the few women artists in the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940s and ’50s, died on Friday at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care on Quiogue after a brief illness.

Barbara Ann Watson

Barbara Ann Watson, a real estate agent and entrepreneur, died of congestive heart failure on July 27 at home on Gibson Island, Md. The East Hampton Village summer resident, who had a house at Pudding Hill, was 81 and had been ill for three years.

Kids Calendar 08.29.19

Arts and crafts, story times, acting workshops, and end-summer-parties for kids and teens

, Prisoners Speak Out in Lynn Novick’s New Documentary

Lynn Novick, a documentary filmmaker, was in Sag Harbor for a preview at Bay Street Theater of her most recent project, “College Behind Bars,” a four-hour series that will premiere on PBS in November.