The terms of East Hampton Town's nine trustees will increase from two to four years, with the five candidates receiving the most votes in November serving the first four-year terms.

After another barrage of complaints about East Hampton Airport from fed-up residents from the South Fork to Queens -- with one describing a region in "full 'Apocolypse Now' mode" because of incessant helicopter noise -- the East Hampton Town Board got a sense of what can and cannot be done with respect to redeveloping or repurposing the property should it decide to close the airport or restrict flights when Federal Aviation Administration grant assurances expire in September.

With the price of housing on the South Fork exorbitant and affordable places to live sadly lacking, two grassroots organizations, Solidarity Sundays and East End Yimby, have joined together to take action. Their first order of business: busting the myths surrounding municipally managed and public-private housing partnerships, fears of which include more traffic, more crime, poor construction, negative environmental impact, higher taxes, and lower property values for neighbors.