A proposal to demolish most of the existing structures at the Driftwood Resort, a nearly 70-year-old oceanfront hotel on the Napeague stretch, and redevelop the property in a more environmentally friendly manner was discussed at a meeting of the East Hampton Town Planning Board on May 1.

All of a sudden it’s hot and humid, the time when all hell breaks loose in nature: eagles feeding their chicks, spring peepers crawling out of the water to climb trees, alewives spawning.

Blumenfeld + Fleming, an advertising, marketing, and design firm in Montauk, has won seven platinum and nine gold awards in the international Hermes Creative Awards competition.

There were bobwhites around throughout my youth on the North Fork, but today, on the South Fork too, you almost never hear their telltale call.

The heated debate about the social justice component of the Green New Deal will run up against the scientific arguments regarding climate change and raise serious questions about how and on what basis environmental policy is developed.

The first of two electronic billboards along Sunrise Highway in Hampton Bays was made operational in time for Memorial Day weekend. Green-lighted by the Shinnecock Indian Nation, they were described in the tribal trustees’ news blitz as a source of much-needed economic development. They may turn out to be more of a miscalculation than an asset.

At least eight million tons of plastic end up in the marine environment each year, according to researchers. No part of the ocean is immune; contamination reaches even the deepest submarine trenches. 

It is Monday evening. The Memorial Day weekend is over. The weather was grand. At noon traffic was streaming west past my house on Noyac Road at a rate of 961 vehicles per hour, presumably most of them were returning home to spots west of the South Fork. I took a ride around after 4 to parts east, mostly in East Hampton.

Fishing is sometimes a gamble. Some days you are the hero, and the next outing you can be found sulking and wondering where the fish went. There are never any guarantees when you drop a baited hook and line. Fish markets make their livelihood this way.

Summer Is Here

Amagansett

May 26, 2019

Dear David,

AMAGANSETT                  

A. Miller to WP Mako Lane L.L.C., 21 Mako Lane, .17 acre, March 20, $2,230,000.

A. Ciner to J. Kolber and K. Orozco, 121 Windmill Lane, .46 acre, April 11, $990,000.

D. Nelson (by executors) to 7 La Foret L.L.C., 7 La Foret Lane, 2.03 acres, April 15, $1,490,000.

 

BRIDGEHAMPTON

Almonds L.L.C.

A proposal from the owners of the Hero Beach Club in Montauk to convert one of three hotel room buildings into a 16-seat restaurant raised questions about how many parking spaces are legally owned by the hotel.

About three dozen people gathered on the platform at the Long Island Rail Road station in Hampton Bays Tuesday morning to wait for the 6:35 eastbound commuter train.

On Saturday evening, a crowd gathered on Main Street in Sag Harbor to witness the ceremonial relighting of the iconic “Sag Harbor” sign on the recently restored facade of the Sag Harbor Cinema.

The East Hampton Town Board has submitted a formal objection to the F.A.A. and the Department of Transportation’s Consumer Protection Division regarding two aviation companies’ plans to offer commercial flight service here.

The Eco Fair scheduled for Saturday on the grounds of East Hampton Town Hall, the town’s first-ever such event, will happen amid a steady drumbeat of dire predictions of climate-related threats to coastal communities, including sea level rise and more extreme weather.

In solidarity with Friday’s Global Climate Strike, in which citizens of more than 100 countries demanded action on the looming climate crisis, around 45 people gathered outside Southampton Town Hall, where members of the group Drawdown East End and others urged adoption of policies outlined in “Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming,” commonly referred to as Project Drawdown.

As offshore wind moves toward reality along the Mid-Atlantic and New England coastline, its critics have stepped up the effort to prevent or at least alter its implementation.

Workers made haste, and the Shinnecock Indian Nation’s new electronic billboards — at least the one on the eastbound shoulder of the Sunrise Highway — were up and running by last Thursday evening.

Weeks after the baseball field at Maidstone Park in Springs was severely damaged by a vandal, rendering it unusable and disrupting the East Hampton Little League season, the field has been repaired.