Party’s Over at High-End Springs Rental
East Hampton Town officials obtained a temporary restraining order last week to stop parties, photo shoots, product launches, and other commercial activities at a 10,000-square-foot house in Springs.
Old Town Hall Gets Demoed
Demolition of the old East Hampton Town Hall building on the Town Hall campus at 159 Pantigo Road began on Monday.
The building has been unoccupied since 2010, when the main Town Hall offices were moved into the complex built from donated 18th and 19th-century buildings. The old building, constructed in the early 1960s, was already in disrepair and left to deteriorate.
Trump to Visit the Hamptons
With a segment of the donor class camped on the South Fork this month, President Trump is to attend fund-raisers tomorrow at a Bridgehampton house owned by the developer Joe Farrell and at the Southampton house of the developer Stephen Ross and his wife, Kara Ross.
To Protect Drinking Water
The East Hampton Town Board adopted a resolution last Thursday supporting the New York State Drinking Water Quality Council’s recommendation of a maximum level of 10 parts per trillion for perfluorooctane sulfonate, or PFOS, and perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA. The move follows the 2017 and 2018 detection of the perfluorinated compounds, or PFCs, in more than 150 residential wells south of East Hampton Airport.