Budget Approved, With ‘a Lot of Cushion’
The East Hampton Village Board voted to approve a $30.7 million budget for the next fiscal year that includes a tax increase of 1.28 percent for village residents.
Village Weighs Shorter Terms for Appointed Boards
The East Hampton Village Board has posted new dates for public hearings on a plan to trim term limits for the zoning board of appeals and the planning board from five years to three. Those hearings will now be held on July 2.
Item of the Week: The Hemerocallis Garden, 1962
Hemerocallis may be an unfamiliar term, but the garden adjacent to Clinton Academy once bore the name. This photo shows the gate to the garden some two decades after its establishment in 1941.
On the Police Logs 06.26.25
He was “just out for a walk” on the night of June 18, a Wooded Oak Lane man told officers responding to reports of a suspicious person in the area, before admitting that he’d been going through his neighbors’ mailboxes.