Voter Info Tables Abound
Tuesday is National Voter Registration Day, and the League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, Shelter Island, and the North Fork will observe the day with voter information tables throughout the East End.
Millions in Federal Infrastructure Money for Peconic Estuary Partnership
The Peconic Estuary Partnership has received a significant allotment of federal infrastructure money — $909,800 each year for the next five years — and some of that money could go to coastal resilience and climate adaptation projects in Accabonac and Napeague Harbors.
Want New Poles, Not Just New Bulbs
East Hampton Town is closing in on a statewide project, funded in large part by the New York Power Authority, to replace the bulbs in more than 700 streetlights from Wainscott to Montauk, with pedestrian safety cited as the guiding principle. Amagansett some have questions about the plan, with one member of the hamlet's citizens advisory committee saying that new poles are needed, too.
Montauk Lags in Water Fund Requests
East Hampton Town Councilman David Lys, the town board’s liaison to the Montauk Citizens Advisory Committee, brought up a few projects and problems in his presentation to the committee this week, including the anemic response in Montauk to a joint East Hampton Town and Suffolk County program that would provide up to $30,000 to residents to upgrade their septic systems in hopes of improving water quality in the hamlet.