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Party’s Over at High-End Springs Rental

East Hampton Town officials obtained a temporary restraining order last week to stop parties, photo shoots, product launches, and other commercial activities at a 10,000-square-foot house in Springs.     

Old Town Hall Gets Demoed

Demolition of the old East Hampton Town Hall building on the Town Hall campus at 159 Pantigo Road began on Monday.     

Trump to Visit the Hamptons

With a segment of the donor class camped on the South Fork this month, President Trump is to attend fund-raisers tomorrow at a Bridgehampton house owned by the developer Joe Farrell and at the Southampton house of the developer Stephen Ross and his wife, Kara Ross.     

To Protect Drinking Water

The East Hampton Town Board adopted a resolution last Thursday supporting the New York State Drinking Water Quality Council’s recommendation of a maximum level of 10 parts per trillion for perfluorooctane sulfonate, or PFOS, and perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA.

Herrick Park East Hampton Officials Picture a New, Improved Herrick Park

East Hampton Village has hired a landscape architecture firm to develop plans to improve Herrick Park with new pathways, reconfigured ball fields, better lighting, and formalized entrances.

More Money for Springs School

The Springs School District got a financial boost from New York State this week when Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. stopped by the school to present a check for an extra $50,000 from state coffers.     

Sag Harbor District Overestimated State Aid

After auditors said late last year that the Sag Harbor School District had missed out on hundreds of thousands of dollars in New York State funding for summer special education programs, district administrators came to a different conclusion: They had overestimated the amount of money they were due to collect.   

In East Hampton Schools Solar Panels Are on the Way

The East Hampton School District took its first step this week toward installing solar panels and other energy-efficiency upgrades, having recently received the go-ahead from the State Education Department.     

Kids Culture 08.08.19

Children’s Fair     

D.A Pennebaker, Filmmaking Giant

In any inventory of the most influential documentary filmmakers, certain names inevitably appear: Dziga Vertov, Robert Flaherty, Marcel Ophuls, Frederick Wiseman, Michael Apted, Errol Morris, Albert and David Maysles, and the Maysles’ contemporary and onetime associate, D.A. Pennebaker.     

For Daniel Otto

A funeral Mass for Daniel Otto will be said on Saturday at noon at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton.

Ines Wildner-Fox

Ines Angelica Wildner-Fox, a former teacher at the Montauk School who started the school’s English as a foreign language program and co-founded the hamlet’s food pantry, died of pulmonary fibrosis on July 17 at Hope Hospice in Lehigh Acres, Fla.     

Mother’s Lawyer to Mount Psychiatric Defense in Twins’ Murder

The attorney for Tenia Campbell of Medford, who is accused of killing her twin toddlers in Montauk in June, has formally submitted notice that he is working on a psychiatric defense.

Coke Busts in Montauk

An officer on foot patrol heard yelling and saw a man sitting in his car with the interior lights on and the door open. Another officer stopped a car without headlights on. Two felony cocaine possession charges followed.     

Three Times the Limit

Just after Friday midnight, an East Hampton Town police officer arrested an alleged drunken driver whose brand-new Mercedes had been clocked at 91 miles per hour on Town Lane in East Hampton, three times the 30 m.p.h. limit there.   

Also on the Logs 08.08.19

At about 7 a.m. on July 30, a beachgoer spotted some curious debris in the water at Main Beach, and called police, saying it looked like “safety markings” attached to “something floating in the water.” Police used binoculars and saw it was a cluster of balloons.

Kids Calendar 08.08.19

Art workshops, puppet shows, movies, and performances for the kids and families.

Get Ready to Shuck at the Fisherman’s Fair

The Springs Improvement Society’s 87th annual Fisherman’s Fair will take place on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the Ashawagh Hall grounds, with a children’s area for games and crafts, food and craft vendors, a restaurant raffle, live music, and, inside the hall, the Artists of the Springs invitational exhibition, which will be on view through Sunday.     

East Hampton Man Dies in Flanders Crash

Jhony Chumi-Rodas, 30, died on Sunday night when his Dodge Ram pickup truck hit a traffic light stanchion on Route 24, Southampton Town police said. 

Jhony Chumi-Rodas   

Services will be held on Saturday for Jhony Chumi-Rodas, who died in a car crash in Flanders on Sunday night.