The East Hampton Town Trustees approved a request, on behalf of the Maidstone Club in East Hampton Village, for permission to stabilize two small areas of shoreline on Hook Pond. “We are proposing to restore those areas by supplementing them with compost and mulch, and replanting them with native plants,” Drew Bennett and Steven Giles of D.B. Bennett Engineering explained to the trustees.
A Queens man has been arrested on felony forgery charges after Suffolk County police said he used counterfeit $100 bills to buy merchandise at more than a dozen small businesses in the eastern part of the county.
Despite the foul weather, almost a thousand runners turned out for the Hamptons Marathon, Half-Marathon, and 5K at the Southampton Intermediate School Saturday. The races were won, respectively, by Jake Gallagher, 36, of Larchmont, N.Y., in 2 hours, 43 minutes, and 45 seconds, Jordan Daniel, 28, of Westhampton Beach in 1:08:43, and Danny Cohen, 24, of Solon, Ohio, in 18:01.
Supporters of a controversial plan to clear brush on town-owned land along Old Montauk Highway in Montauk have cited the plight of the monarch butterfly as among the plan's justifications.
