Firefighters Battled Bridgehampton House Fire for 10 Hours
On one of the coldest days of the year, a fire broke out in a large house in Bridgehampton Thursday afternoon.
Online Front Opens in Wind War
Citizens for the Preservation of Wainscott, a group that formed to oppose the landing of the South Fork Wind Farm’s export cable at the ocean beach at the end of Beach Lane in that hamlet, is mounting an online campaign urging people to tell the New York State Public Service Commission to reject the proposed 130-megawatt installation to be situated approximately 35 miles off Montauk.
Criminal Justice Reforms Spell Big Costs, Chief Warns
With New York State’s sweeping criminal justice reform law about to go into effect, the chief of the East Hampton Town Police Department and an assistant town attorney briefed the town board about impacts they predicted would be commensurately broad.
Bought Boat on eBay, Beached It in Montauk, Beat the Charges and Bolted
East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky has dismissed two misdemeanor charges against Matthew Hunt, a 21-year-old would-be sailor from Arizona who ran his used sailboat onto a Montauk beach in September just two days after buying it on eBay.