A community housing fund proposition that would authorize a .5-percent tax on some real estate transfers passed in East Hampton, Southampton, Southold, and Shelter Island Towns. “The funds raised will be a significant part of the town board’s ‘All Hands on Housing’ effort to address the housing crisis here in East Hampton,” East Hampton's supervisor said.
Nicholas LaLota, the Republican and Conservative Party nominee to represent New York’s First Congressional District, is the winner of the race to succeed Representative Lee Zeldin, the four-term congressman who ran for governor of New York on the Republican and Conservative Party lines. Mr. LaLota defeated Suffolk County Legislator Bridget Fleming with 55.81 percent of the vote.
Parents who flocked to a meeting about an innovative dual-language program at East Hampton’s John M. Marshall Elementary School, in which children of all language backgrounds spend half their time learning subjects in English and half in Spanish, feared the district was preparing to stop the program after third grade. Instead, the superintendent recommended continuing it.
Members of the Wainscott Citizens Advisory Committee are claiming that the Maidstone Gun Club, a private group that leases close to 100 acres of town-owned land in that hamlet, has violated multiple clauses of its lease.
