“It’s hard to keep track” of all the local road work projects happening now, said the South Fork’s state assemblyman, Fred W. Thiele Jr. of Sag Harbor, for whom a drive along Route 114 is a frequent occurrence. Long an advocate for the total repaving and repairing of that road, Mr. Thiele assured his constituents this week that the inconvenience of the project will be worthwhile.
The fastest-growing sport in America — pickleball — is also the noisiest, according to a survey conducted by sound engineers hired by the Village of Sagaponack. As a result, the village board will recommend requiring new pickleball courts to be built with larger setback from adjacent properties.
The modern multiplicity of teenage troubles: anxiety, depression, learning disabilities, overstuffed schedules, social media, self-medication, drugs, alcohol, all of that. So said a father, resolved and knowing, about his son who had struggled with many of the above, but who came through on the other side, ready to alter the bumpy course of his short life. Then, sober for about a year, living independently, about to return to college, a diabolical twist of fate: He experienced a major epileptic seizure and cardiac arrest in his sleep.
A proposal to change Home Sweet Home, the Wainscott moving company that has been in operation there since the mid-1960s, to a self-storage facility with 443 units, hit a couple of significant snags when the East Hampton Town Planning Board met on April 6.
