Forget the white pants or the crisp, sky blue shirts. Traffic-cone orange is the color of summer 2024 in East Hampton Village. “It’s a disaster. We want to make sure residents understand it’s not the village doing the work, it’s the D.O.T.,” Marcos Baladron, the village administrator, said about the multiple construction zones that have been impacting travel along Route 27, a state road that doubles as the village’s Main Street.
Amid a pervading sense of uncertainty — politics and international affairs being what they are — something positive is happening here, as a rabbi and a minister engage in friendly dialogue and instructive commentary on “the best parables of Jewish and Christian literature.”
East Hampton Library’s annual free Children’s Fair is set for Sunday from 2 to 5:30 p.m. at Herrick Park, with rides, carnival games, food, performers, crafts, and authors signing their children’s books.
The application process for the Green at Gardiner’s Point, the East Hampton Housing Authority's newest affordable housing project, opened up only two months ago, but 543 applications for the Three Mile Harbor Road project have come in since. On Friday, Katy Casey, executive director of the housing authority, presided over a preliminary lottery, to assign the order in which applicants will be vetted.
