Five Democrats vying to represent District 1 in the New York State Senate faced off Monday night in a debate sponsored by the League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, Shelter Island, and the North Fork. The incumbent, Kenneth P. LaValle, a Republican, announced his retirement in January after 44 years in office.
A proposal from AT&T to build a 50-foot-high freestanding bell tower, or “campanile,” to house cellphone antennas at St. Peter’s Chapel on Old Stone Highway in Springs faced fierce opposition from the church’s neighbors during an East Hampton Town Planning Board public hearing on June 3.
The Sand Land mine on Middle Line Highway in Noyac is the recipient of an updated permit from the State Department of Environmental Conservation, as well as a brand-new cease-and-desist order from Southampton Town.
"I love this candidate," the actor John Leguizamo said on Sunday. "I feel he's one of the best out there."
Mr. Leguizamo, who bought a house in Amagansett in 2012, was speaking of Perry Gershon, who is vying for the Democratic Party's nomination for a second bid to represent New York's First Congressional District. He spoke during an online fund-raiser for Mr. Gershon, organized and co-hosted by Loida Lewis of East Hampton and Manhattan.
