East Hampton News

Amanda Bono and James Bennett were married on May 10 at the Amagansett Presbyterian Church.

Though the Ladies Village Improvement Society Fair has many longstanding traditions - it turns 118 on Saturday - there will be quite a few changes to this year's festivities.

A hearing last Thursday night before the East Hampton Town Board on a proposed law that would subject chain stores seeking to open to additional planning board review drew speakers both for and against the idea.

Nick Calace, third from right, a paid paramedic with the Amagansett Fire Department ambulance company, has been recognized for the care he gave a patient having a heart attack on July 9. He posed for a photograph with the fire district commissioners, from left, Jack Emptage, J. Kent Howie, William Vorpahl Jr., Daniel R. Shields II, and Carl ... (more)

Joe Donohue, left, an attendant, and Mike Goldsmith, a supervisor, manned the new parking hurdle in Amagansett Square last week.

John Ryan is facing heavy opposition to his proposal to install an oceanfront stone revetment to protect his house on Surfside Avenue in Montauk.

A Noyac acupuncturist, Michael P. Gohring, was charged last week with sexual abuse of a patient.

Self-employed contractors and tradesmen who work during the day at customers' houses and return home at night with their trucks and equipment helped fill Town Hall to standing-room capacity last Thursday night, protesting a new law that would restrict the parking of their commercial vehicles on residential streets.

Although each East Hampton Town residence is allowed no more than four cars per driveway, Theresa Eurell has counted up to a dozen on each of several weekends, the apparent overflow vehicles of paying guests at a rented house on a narrow side street nearby.

A plan to build as many as 48 affordable rental apartments on a 31-acre site owned by East Hampton Town in Wainscott was proposed to the Town Board on July 15. Michael DeSario, the chairman of the Windmill Village Housing Development Fund Corporation, which has been involved with other subsidized housing projects in the town, made his pitch at the ... (more)

Southampton Town Councilwomen Bridget Fleming and Christine Scalera attracted a small crowd of non-members to the CAC's monthly meeting on Friday, July 18, in the Pierson High School Library.

After months of discussion and disagreement, East Hampton Town has adopted a law that will restrict alcohol at Indian Wells Beach in Amagansett.

New York State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. and Senator Kenneth P. LaValle this week announced that Governor Andrew Cuomo had signed legislation allowing Suffolk County to extend the real estate tax payment deadline for the residents of the East Hampton this year, protecting residents from any penalties.

The East Hampton Historical Society has organized a new exhibit, "June 13, 1942: Saboteurs Land in Amagansett," which will open on August 1, with a benefit cocktail party for the Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station Society from 6 to 8 in the evening at the Clinton Academy.

The Village of Sag Harbor experienced a 67-percent increase in house sales during the second quarter of 2014 as compared to the same period a year ago, according to a report issued by Judi Desiderio, the chief executive officer of Town & Country Real Estate.

The East Hampton Town Police have reported the theft of $10,000 from an electric keypad safe at 31 Lafayette Place, in East Hampton.

I've taken some yoga classes, but I'm certainly no yogi. However, I'm always up for ways to make fitness fun.

Expensive taxi fares on the East End were the cause of two police reports over the weekend.

Smithtown Town Board members have voted to tear down three dilapidated buildings opposite town hall on Main Street, including the former Nassau Suffolk Lumber and Supply Corp. Smithtown Town Board members have voted to tear down three dilapidated buildings in a vacant lumber yard opposite town hall that was the focus of a 2011 Suffolk County grand ... (more)

One of our favorite expectant-and-engaged stars is soon to be expectant and married! Scarlett Johansson is reportedly planning to marry fiance Romain Dauriac in just a few weeks - a fact the star revealed at a recent dinner party in East Hampton, New York.