East Hampton Village’s new Flock license-plate reader cameras are having an immediate effect here. Out of 18 arrests reported by village police in the last two weeks, 14 were made with the assistance of the cameras.
A coyote was spotted in the vicinity of Hither Hills State Park in Montauk on the morning of April 7. The man who reported it said he was worried about the safety of neighborhood pets.
Vincent Maher of Manhattan and Springs, a surfer and fisherman who worked for many years as a mate on Montauk sportfishing boats, died on Feb. 13 in Manhattan. He was 78.
In the wake of the March 8 and 9 brush fires in the Pine Barrens around Westhampton Beach, Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine has announced the county’s first southern pine beetle symposium, which happens on Wednesday from 9 a.m. to noon at Suffolk Community College’s Riverhead campus.
