East Hampton News

Here's a look at some of the top business stories that made headlines in and around your community over the past week.

Here's a look at some of the top news stories that made headlines in and around your community this past week.

Santa is coming to town . . . or at least the village. The annual Santa Parade is happening Saturday in East Hampton Village.

In the wake of the apparent vandalism and dredging of the scallop sanctuary in Napeague Harbor, the East Hampton Town Trustees, who oversee the town's beaches, waterways, and bottomlands on behalf of the public, considered seeking an amendment to the town code to increase penalties imposed on violators.

East Hampton Town police have made three arrests over the past two weeks, including two charging physically abusive felonies, in separate incidents involving residents of Phoenix House, a drug treatment facility in Wainscott.

Starting in January, the Ross School in East Hampton will launch a program devoted to the study of marine science.

Good fences make good neighbors, wrote the poet Robert Frost - but when the fence is built on a neighbor's property, not so good, according to the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals.

Anyone living in East Hampton for any length of time probably drives right past the big blue gas ball on Railroad Avenue and Fresno Place in East Hampton Village without batting an eye.

Valon Shoshi, a former assistant chief of the East Hampton Village Ambulance Association, who has been living for the past year in his native Kosovo, is used to helping get seriously injured people to the hospital.

While the Suffolk County Board of Elections has not posted the final election figures due to contested results in Brookhaven Town, the East Hampton Town figures have been finalized with absentee ballots late last month, settling the trustee races.

East End Cares, which was formed on the heels of Hurricane Sandy in 2012, and Gurney's Inn in Montauk are joining forces to host a fund-raiser on Friday, Dec. 13, to benefit victims of Typhoon Haiyan, which caused massive destruction in the Philippines last month.

A Suffolk Planning Commission decision on Wednesday against a zone change that would have allowed a 79-unit luxury housing complex on 24 acres of farmland in Amagansett has set the odds that the project will be approved at essentially zero.

A 17-year-old Phoenix House resident was arrested on a felony assault charge after he threw a chair at another resident, which split his upper lip open and loosened an upper front tooth, East Hampton Town police said.

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The East Hampton Town Board and the East Hampton Town Planning Board have been named in a petition - STOP 555 - seeking to prevent a zone change that would reclassify a 23.5 acre piece of farmland at 555 Montauk Highway in Amagansett as senior citizen housing overlay district.

State and county officials turned out in a big way Tuesday to support downtown Riverhead revitalization, as well as the promise of new jobs and affordable housing in the area.

A five-year capital improvement plan for the East Hampton Airport highlighting close to $10.5 million in projects for the facility was presented to the public last Thursday night.

The documentary filmmaking team of D A Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus of Sag Harbor will be honored at the Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival Gala on December 7, 7 p.m. at Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor.

In March, a Swiss referendum fired a first shot against executive pay, as it was decided that shareholders would get to determine chief executive compensation.

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