Sand Highway L.L.C., a 14.49-acre sand and gravel mine on Middle Highway in East Hampton, is challenging a 2022 determination by the town’s principal building inspector that its mining activities have surpassed what the town allows. The matter was in front of the town’s zoning board of appeals on May 16. There is a lot of history.
With the hope that voters will see it as a good-faith gesture that turns some no votes into yeses, Wainscott School District officials have slightly trimmed their proposed 2023-24 budget ahead of a June 20 revote. The new plan, totaling $6,144,331, “is effectively the contingency budget,” said David Eagan, president of the school board.
The Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt, the Southampton Town Trustees, and the Nature Conservancy have installed 13 split-rail fences at sensitive junctures along the greenbelt to discourage mountain bikers, e-bikers, dirt bikers, and A.T.V. riders. But they get ripped out.
“This is not an easy holiday. It’s not an easy thing to lose someone in service for our country,” said Jimbo Theinert, the guest speaker on Memorial Day in Sag Harbor, and brother of First Lt. Joseph J. Theinert of Shelter Island, who was killed by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan on June 4, 2010.
