Mayor Jerry Larsen and the East Hampton Village Board finally got what they wanted: control of the operations of the East Hampton Village Ambulance via a newly created Department of Emergency Medical Service that was voted into existence at Friday’s village board meeting.
In East Hampton's Methods in Research program, students conduct high-level scientific experiments and analyses that almost universally address — and often propose solutions to — problems the planet is experiencing, such as climate change, sea-level rise, ocean acidification, pollution, and decreasing biodiversity.
A couple who lives next to Herrick Park in East Hampton Village is seeking to stop the village from building lighted pickleball courts in the park and making other improvements there. Meanwhile on Friday, the village board agreed to amend the village code regarding pickleball courts and impose a six-month moratorium on conversion of tennis courts and other playing courts on residential property to pickleball courts.
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to address a statewide housing shortage by building 800,000 new residences over the next decade has been removed from the state’s 2024 executive budget. Widely panned here, it would have effectively eliminated “decades of work put into creating our own local zoning, building, and environmental regulations,” an East Hampton Town planner told the town board last month.
