A private child-custody dispute at the Amagansett School last month escalated into a public confrontation, as was learned at a meeting of the school board Tuesday night, with police involvement on the school’s front lawn during its 2:50 p.m. dismissal time. The incident has rocked the community and raised questions about safety and communication protocols at the school.
Attorneys for East Hampton Town and the town trustees described “vans full of nonresident people coming at night” and “taking bushels and bushels of shellfish out of Napeague Harbor” and other waterways including Georgica Pond, where people working alone or in concert have repeatedly poached blue-claw crabs. New deterrents to punish poachers might include fines starting at $1,000 and possibly even jail time.
“It was only June 2021 when we first saw a scattering of symptomatic foliage in a client’s garden, and two years later, most beech trees have been impacted at some level,” one master arborist said of beech leaf disease, which is threatening the survival of beech trees from forests to estates.
LTV, East Hampton Town’s public access television station, saw revenue exceed expenses by $180,000 in 2022, a 27-percent increase over the previous year, its executive director, Michael Clark, told the East Hampton Town Board, and 77 cents of every dollar received is spent directly on programming, incuding thousands and thousands of hours of local government and education coverage each year. “Those are the kind of numbers that you want to see,” Mr. Clark said.
