East Hampton News

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)

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.