Kwame Yirenkyi, left, completed the BOCES audio recording program, then celebrated his graduation from Bridgehampton High School with his father, Kwadwo Yirenkyi, last month.

The East Hampton Town Board voted on July 2 to give the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the Army Corps of Engineers a temporary access easement near the Montauk Lighthouse so that an extensive reconstruction of the roughly 1,000-foot-long rock revetment that wraps around the Point can proceed. 

Ethel Henn, the treasurer of the Springs Historical Society, was at her desk in the Springs Library last week, opening the mail and chatting with a visitor, when she suddenly gasped and exclaimed in delight. From an envelope postmarked Henderson, Nev., she had just withdrawn a check for $200, with “For the Springs Library” on the memo line.

The Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation will honor Ms. Bertello, the owner of the Baker House 1650, at its Hamptons Happening fund-raiser Saturday night in Bridgehampton.

Teachers in the East Hampton schools will get a 1.75-percent pay raise next year — their largest in five years — according to a new contract that school officials say was “amicably” negotiated.

The East Hampton Town Board moved forward Tuesday on a plan to relocate the town’s shellfish hatchery from Fort Pond Bay in Montauk to a property at the corner of Gann Road and Babe’s Lane in Springs that was acquired for $2.1 million last year.

The East Hampton Town Board will hold a public hearing next Thursday on proposed legislation that would require the planting of a cover crop on agricultural fields. 

East Hampton Town police first pulled over a 2005 Dodge Neon driven by Milton G. Anguisaca-Buestan of Springs on Cedar Ridge Drive near Woodcock Lane Friday night. While police took him to headquarters in Wainscott for booking, his older brother, Claudio R. Anguisaca-Buestan, got behind the wheel of the Neon and drove off.

Monday night’s meeting of the Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee was almost entirely taken up by PowerPoint presentations on Orsted U.S. Offshore Wind’s proposed South Fork wind farm. 

The structures at 81 Ocean Avenue in East Hampton Village, a one-acre parcel bordering Hook Pond and the Main Beach parking lot, are being demolished this week before East Hampton Town buys the property for $4.8 million.

Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. formally announced his resignation as East Hampton Village Mayor at the village board’s organizational meeting on July 3. His resignation will take effect on Dec. 31, more than six months before his term is to expire.

An East Hampton man arrested earlier this year on felony drug charges is now facing four misdemeanor charges, three of them drug-related, following a traffic stop in Amagansett.

The East Hampton Town Republican Committee re-elected the group’s executive board to two-year terms at its 2019 organizational meeting on Friday. 

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on July 3 announced $55 million for commercial and residential energy storage projects on Long Island. 

Chalking tires to know when a vehicle has overstayed its allotted time in a parking spot is a legal and ongoing method of local law enforcement, East Hampton Village Chief of Police Michael Tracey said last Thursday. 

At the request of the East Hampton Town Trustees, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has engaged consultants to evaluate existing studies of potential effects of electromagnetic fields on fish species as part of its environmental studies program. That evaluation could lead to a field study, a trustee reported to his colleagues on Monday. 

Parents and community members called upon the Sag Harbor School Board on July 1 to weigh “diversity and inclusion” among the criteria when seeking out the district’s next superintendent.

One person involved in a brawl on Folkstone Drive in Springs on the Fourth of July pulled out a machete, according to an East Hampton Town police report. 

Dennis R. Walker Jr. of East Hampton has been charged with a felony for allegedly failing to register as a sex offender, his second such offense since a sexual abuse conviction in 2008. 

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