Villages

Ambiguous language in the East Hampton Village code and the potential for thousands more square feet of habitable space in residences were described by Ken Collum, the village building inspector, at a village board work session last Thursday, prompting the board to consider changes to the law governing accessory buildings. The board also heard a heartfelt plea from Leonard Ackerman, an East Hampton resident and attorney, that health-care personnel or family members be allowed to live in accessory buildings. 

An application to alter an accessory building on a historically significant property gave the East Hampton Village Board plenty to consider when it met on Friday.

“Medicines in the home are a leading cause of accidental poisoning,” the East Hampton Town Police Department cautions in a flier promoting a drug take-back day on Saturday at Town Hall. Add to that the facts that “many teens abusing prescription medicines get them from the home medicine cabinet” and that old medicines tossed in the trash or flushed down the toilet can contaminate aquifers, bays, and ponds, and you have three good reasons to find a place to safely dispose of old medications.

A country dance party at Scoville Hall in Amagansett Friday night will raise money for hurricane relief and underprivileged students on Dominica.

An attorney representing Mariska Hargitay and Peter Hermann, actors who met on the television series “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit,” returned to the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals on Friday, nine months after the board denied the couple’s request to legalize a tree house that is within required setbacks at 31 Cottage Avenue.

Ed McDonald, East Hampton Village’s ocean beach manager, delivered an upbeat report on the summer season to the village board at its work session last Thursday.

A vote by the East Hampton Town Board last Thursday to ban parking on a grassy area off Edgemere Road bordering a dirt road that ends at the Montauk Firehouse was a great relief for residents of the two houses across from the area, which has been used by patrons of the nearby Surf Lodge.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has asked the United States secretary of commerce to take strong action to alter quotas on fluke that he said are hurting New York’s commercial fishing industry.

October is domestic violence awareness month, which is fitting for a new lecture and workshop series about healthy relationships and self-esteem building that will be held at the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton.

An ongoing discussion about a possible deletion in the Sag Harbor Village code having to do with the posting of notices for every application made to the board of historical preservation and architectural review continued during the village board meeting on Tuesday.

Sampling performed by State University at Stony Brook researchers has confirmed blooms of cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, at Fort Pond in Montauk, Poxabogue Pond in Sagaponack, and Sayre Pond and Cooper’s Neck Pond in Southampton.

Health officials have asked residents not to use, swim, or wade in those waters and to keep pets and children away. The advisory will remain in effect until the concentration of blue-green algae meets the state threshold and the water is not visibly discolored for at least 24 hours.

Long before Tropical Storm Irma smashed into the Dominican Republic, Meaghan Guzman, who was born and raised in Sag Harbor and now lives in East Hampton, had identified the dire need to help children and families living in remote parts of the island — the parts that most vacationers who flock to the Caribbean hotspot never see.

A three-mile portion of Montauk Highway, from Knoll Road in Shinnecock Hills east to Tuckahoe Lane in Southampton, will soon be repaved.

Those registered to vote in the Sag Harbor School District can weigh in today from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on the John Jermain Memorial Library’s 2018 budget and also select three members of the library’s board from a field of five.

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County will offer a Marine Meadows Program workshop on Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon at the Tiana Bayside Facility, at 89 Dune Road in Hampton Bays.

Despite low turnout, the Hampton Library's proposed 2018 budget of $1.3 million was easily approved on Saturday, and four members of the board of trustees were elected.

The East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals looked favorably on an application to construct an addition to a century-old, historically important residence when it met on Friday.

The Hampton Library in Bridgehampton will float a proposed 2018 budget on Saturday that is asking for less in library taxes than the year before.

The Sagaponack Village Board does not have adequate assurance that goods and services are purchased at the best price, according to the findings of an audit released by the New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli’s office on Tuesday.

James P. Foster, an East Hampton Village public safety dispatcher, has been promoted from the position of PSD II to PSD III, a supervisory title.

Months after East Hampton Village held its first-ever street fair, the village’s first fall festival has been scheduled.

The East Hampton Town Trustees will hold their 27th annual Largest Clam Contest on Sunday at noon at the Donald Lamb Building on Bluff Road in Amagansett.

Voters from the East Hampton, Springs, and Wainscott School Districts approved a budget increase for the East Hampton Library in balloting conducted Saturday.

Like its previous gathering, Friday’s meeting of the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals was brief, with a relatively small number of hearings on the agenda.

A vote on a modest budget increase for the East Hampton Library will be held there on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Registered residents of the East Hampton, Wainscott, and Springs School Districts can cast ballots on the proposed $104,000 tax hike for 2018.

The summertime shuttle bus in Montauk, organized by East Hampton Town and provided by the Hampton Hopper bus service, carried about 1,600 passengers in its first week early in the season.

Residents who spoke at Tuesday’s Sag Harbor Village Board meeting were concerned over possible deletions in the village code having to do with the board of historic preservation and architectural review and the posting of notices.

The seventh annual ride with the Red Knights’ Chapter 25 to raise money for the Donald T. Sharkey Memorial Community Fund will take place on Sunday.

In its first meeting after Labor Day, the East Hampton Village Board addressed public safety and issues that affect the quality of life in a 30-minute work session on Thursday.

An expansion of the paid paramedic program,  the use and misuse of air-conditioning, and the scourge of gas-powered leaf blowers were topics, along with the construction of a roundabout on Buell Lane, for which a bid was accepted. The rescue of a person in distress at Georgica Beach, covered in a separate story on this page, also was discussed.  

LTV will hold an orientation workshop, open to any resident interested in producing a show at the studio or learning the ins and outs of video production, on Monday, at its headquarters on Industrial Road in Wainscott.