East Hampton News

Elevated levels of a blue-green algae that produces toxins harmful to people and animals have been found in an East Hampton pond, nearly two years after a dog died after drinking the water there during an algal outbreak.

Baby's night out! Hilaria Baldwin brings cute little Carmen to support dad Alec as he hosts Q & A at film screening Instead, 11-month-old Carmen joined her parents at the Hamptons International Film Festival in East Hampton, New York on Friday.

The life of Jeff Bogetti, who died on May 30, was celebrated with a "beach picnic" gathering of about 500 attendees at Groundworks @Hrens in Amagansett Thursday evening.

From fast-growing local bands to slow food snail suppers, there's plenty to do on the East End this weekend.

Isaac Mizrahi will host "Get Wild," a benefit for the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center at the home of the painters April Gornik and Eric Fischl in North Haven on August 9, beginning at 6 p.m. Catering will be by The Art of Eating with wine from Wolffer Estates, Crystal Head vodka and margaritas made with Clase Azul Tequila.

A child bicycling on Indian Wells Highway in Amagansett was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital with potentially serious injuries after being hit by a car on Thursday afternoon.

The landlord of a summer rental in Springs pleaded guilty Thursday to 14 felony charges stemming from his use of surveillance cameras to spy on his tenants.

The trustees have advised people who use Georgica Pond to keep children and pets away from algae blooms and scum and to rinse with clean water if they are exposed.

The battle over Cyril's Fish House, a popular summer bar and restaurant on Napeague, is over as far as its 2014 season goes, but the larger question of whether businesses can be operated in areas zoned for residential use if they have expanded their use, as East Hampton Town alleges Cyril's has, remains up in the air.

The case of the People of the State of New York vs. Jason Lee is slowly making its way to trial at the Cromarty Criminal Courts building in Riverside.

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)