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The ecological health of East Hampton’s waterways, including the algal blooms that have degraded some in recent years, will be detailed in a presentation on April 18 at Town Hall. Waterways: How’re We Doing?

The program, hosted by the trustees, will also include a talk by Barley Dunne, director of the East Hampton Town Shellfish Hatchery, on its efforts to seed waterways with native shellfish. An interactive dialogue will follow.

Apr 7, 2016
A kinetic sculpture, created by Steve Zaluski, outside of the new Mannix Studio of Art in East Hampton Village apparently needed approval from the Village Design Review Board. Sculpture at East Hampton Art Studio May Need to Move

The East Hampton Village Design Review Board will decide on Wednesday whether or not a silver sculpture situated outside a recently opened art studio on Gingerbread Lane will have to come down.

Apr 5, 2016
Burkle and Peters Wed on Tortola

Kalie Encie Peters and Justin E. Burkle were married on Jan. 16 in Cane Garden Bay, Tortola, in the British Virgin Islands.

Mar 31, 2016
LTV Video Basics Class

A workshop in basic video production will be held on Mondays in April, at 7 p.m. at the LTV public access television studio on Industrial Road in Wainscott.

The program is a first step toward becoming involved with local television, via directing, camera operation, and producing. The first class, an orientation, will include a tour of the facility as well as an explanation of LTV’s production process and paperwork.

Mike Tremblay can be phoned at 537-2777 to sign up. Inquiries by email are welcomed as well, to [email protected].

Mar 31, 2016
Jackie Bitonti, the Montauk children’s librarian, Denise DiPaolo, the director, and Joan Lycke, the president of the library’s board, are excited about the library’s new status as a Family Place library. Now It’s a Family Fun Place

The Montauk Library has made changes that, once seen, should have the little ones begging to go there.

Mar 31, 2016
Unsightly PSEG Substation to Be Shielded From View

The ongoing upgrade of the electricity transmission line at the Long Island Power Authority’s Amagansett substation continues to rankle residents of the hamlet.

Mar 31, 2016
A fund-raising campaign has been set up for Fran Silipo, center, by some of her relatives, including two nieces, Amanda Follenius Dext, left, and Alyson Follenius, right, to help with medical expenses. Seeking Gifts for ‘the Giver’

Relatives of Fran Silipo, the former Springs School District clerk who had a stroke in October, have set up a fund-raising page via the website GoFundMe.com to help her with medical costs and day-to-day expenses.

Mar 24, 2016
Main Beach Makes Coastal Living's Cut

Coastal Living magazine has included Main Beach in East Hampton Village in its first March Madness Beach Bracket, modeled after the college basketball playoff brackets, in a competition called the Best Beach in America 2016. Voting is open at coastalliving. com/beachbracket.

Each playoff round is an online vote, with a beach’s right to advance to the next round determined by votes garnered during that voting period. The winning beach will earn the title of Coastal Living’s Best Beach in America 2016 and will be featured in its June 2016 issue and on its website.

Mar 17, 2016
Sag Harbor Zoning Changes Move Ahead

The village board will meet with its attorneys and consultants tomorrow at 3 p.m. to introduce the draft law, and a public hearing will be scheduled on April 12, when the board next meets.

Mar 17, 2016
School Lunch Boycotters Appear in Documentary

A decade after its founding, the Wellness Foundation of East Hampton has guided thousands of East Enders through its six-week “wellness challenge” and created a posse of student “wellness warriors” who have participated in its Healthy Food for Life program.

Mar 17, 2016
They Never Promised Her a Rose Garden

Mindful of the density and scarcity of parking in the neighborhood, the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals took a long look at a proposal to alter a pre-existing nonconforming residence and make several additions to a .3-acre parcel on Friday.

Keith and Anne Cynar own an undivided lot at 52, 54, and 56 McGuirk Street. They want to convert a two-apartment building at the rear of the property into a single-family residence while retaining two cottages that face the street.

Mar 17, 2016
Bracing for Summer’s Hordes

At a very brief work session last Thursday, the East Hampton Village Board took a step toward meeting the coming onslaught of summer visitors.

Mar 10, 2016
The 2014 Am O'Gansett parade Hop, Skip, Jump for Ireland

The unmistakable signs of spring are stirring. The eighth annual Am O’Gansett Parade, which its organizers proclaim is the world’s shortest, will commence at noon on Saturday and conclude a few minutes later.

Mar 10, 2016
Actress’s Guest House Gets the Kibosh

The actress Candice Bergen and her husband, the real estate magnate Marshall Rose, have owned a house at 72 Lily Pond Lane, which was featured in Architectural Digest, for years. On Friday, the attorney Thomas J. Osborne was before the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals on their behalf seeking to legalize changes that had been made to an accessory building on their property. It was the second go-round of a hearing that started in January.

Mar 3, 2016
The owner of the Soundview Drive house at center is facing charges related to installing a stone revetment without proper permits. Town Challenges Revetment

An Oyster Bay man is facing criminal charges in East Hampton Town Justice Court after allegedly erecting a hard-rock revetment on Soundview Drive in Montauk without permits.

Mar 3, 2016
Deer Sterilization Denounced

Members of the East Hampton Group for Wildlife delivered a withering appraisal of East Hampton Village’s deer-management activities and of White Buffalo, the Connecticut organization it hired to conduct a deer-sterilization program, at the village board’s meeting on Friday.

Feb 25, 2016
Funding Campaigns Crop Up

Two new crowdfunding campaigns that are local to the East Hampton area have the potential to expand access to healthy foods for families and children.

Feb 18, 2016
Minerva Perez hopes to forge stronger ties between Latinos and non-Latinos as executive director of Organizacion Latino-Americana of Long Island. A New Leader for OLA

Minerva Perez has been named to the new position of executive director at Organizacion Latino-Americana of Long Island, or OLA.

Feb 11, 2016
Cynthia Young, the director of the Amagansett Library, which has been named grand marshal for the March 12 Am O’Gansett Parade. The Library Shall Lead It

Cynthia Young, the director of the Amagansett Library, which has been named grand marshal for the March 12 Am O’Gansett Parade.

Feb 11, 2016
To Reduce Parking on James Lane

An effort to improve traffic safety on James Lane, which runs along the east side of South End Cemetery, may necessitate in the elimination of about six parking spaces, the East Hampton Village Board concluded at a work session last Thursday.

Feb 11, 2016
Village Beach Permits, Get ’Em While It’s Cold

The Monday morning queue, an early sign that summer is never too far away, was for those seeking one of the 3,000 nonresident parking permits for village beaches.

Feb 4, 2016
A vacant building on Montauk Highway across from the Bridgehampton Post Office will be torn down. The Bridgehampton Fire District bought the property for $3.9 million in 2011. ‘Eyesore’ on Bridgehampton Main to Be Razed

The Bridgehampton Fire District, which bought the building on Main Street that once housed the Pulver Gas Company in 2011 for $3.9 million, will tear it down by the end of the month.

Feb 4, 2016
The East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals is unlikely to allow a cellar at 18 Lee Avenue to extend beyond the house’s exterior walls. Z.B.A. Quashes Efforts to Avoid New Rules

No sooner had the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals denied an application on Friday for an expanded house at 44 Huntting Lane that would have violated a zoning amendment enacted last year, than it considered another request to overrule the amendment, which prohibits cellars from extending beyond a house’s ground-floor exterior walls.

Jan 28, 2016
A Surfboard’s Strange Trip

A missing surfboard will be returned to its owner by way of North Carolina.

Jan 21, 2016
About North Main Parking

Befitting the quiet of a South Fork winter, the East Hampton Village Board’s meeting on Friday was brief.

Jan 21, 2016
Old Hoses, Tired Trucks

The Sag Harbor Fire Department, which serves Noyac and North Haven as well as the village, is facing “almost a crisis situation with the apparatus we have,” Chief Tom Gardella told the village board last week.

Jan 21, 2016
The Chili Cook-Off Is Nigh

It’s time again for the Great Bonac Chili Cook-Off, when home cooks and professional chefs throw their best versions of chili in the ring, to be tasted and rated by members of the public.

Jan 21, 2016
To Explain Code Revisions

The public has been invited to a meeting on Wednesday for further explanation of the proposed Sag Harbor Village zoning code revisions.

Jan 21, 2016
When Mammograms Fall Short

“Happygram,” a feature-length documentary that explores the issue of breast cancers that mammograms failed to detect, will be screened on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at Shelter Island High School. Admission is free.

Jan 21, 2016
Accountants Give Thumbs-Up on Finances

The Village of East Hampton got an upbeat report on its fiscal health last Thursday.

Jan 14, 2016