An East Hampton Town proposal to build a sewage treatment plant in Montauk appears to be dead in the water for now following a unanimous 8-to-0 vote by Suffolk County Parks Commission trustees last week to reject a proposed town-county land swap that was key to the project’s getting off the ground.
Last week, an attorney for Vrbo filed a motion with the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, asking that it dismiss Vrbo as a defendant in a civil suit involving a fatal fire at a Noyac rental house last August.
The Southampton Town Board chose not to close a public hearing and vote to commit community preservation fund money to a Sag Harbor School District project to build an athletic field and community park across from the school along Marsden Street. Instead, at its meeting Tuesday night, and much to school officials’ chagrin, the board voted to keep the public hearing open until its March 14 meeting.
“In my mind I thought one of the kids asked a coach if he could go down and hold his breath. Then I heard one of the teammates say, ‘Hey, you want me to tell him to come up?’ And the coach said, ‘Yes,’ ” recalled Jason Brunner, a RECenter lifeguard who was on duty on Feb. 1 and was recognized with a proclamation from the East Hampton Village Board for his role in helping to save the boy.
