East Hampton News

A new Federal Aviation Administration rule going into effect in early May will be a "significant consideration" in East Hampton Town's decision-making regarding the town airport and whether to continue taking F.A.A. money, Town Councilwoman Kathee Burke-Gonzalez, the airport liaison, said in a press release this week.

The East Hampton Village Board appointed an independent officer last Thursday to weigh disciplinary charges against Julio Galeano, a village police officer who was suspended without pay on Feb. 21 after an alleged romantic encounter in December with another member of the department at a house in which neither had permission to be.

The fifth annual Mr. Amagansett pageant, a fund-raiser for the Donald T. Sharkey Memorial Community Fund, happens tonight at 7 at the Stephen Talkhouse.

A fire believed to be electrical in nature damaged part of a house in Sag Harbor Village overnight, investigators said this morning.

Joseph Spezzano, described at his arraignment as "a career criminal," was arrested early yesterday morning after David E. Rattray, the editor of The East Hampton Star, found him rummaging through his 2000 Toyota pickup truck, parked in his driveway on Cranberry Hole Road in Amagansett.

Harry Blumenfeld and Martin Falzack, East Hampton residents for over 50 years, were married at City Hall in Manhattan on March 4. Mr. Blumenfeld, 86, and Mr. Falzack, 80, were introduced at a dinner party in New York about 60 years ago, when Mr. Blumenfeld had just graduated from Brooklyn College and Mr. Falzack was still a student.

Cabbies in the audience at a Montauk Citizens Advisory Committee meeting listened closely as the group discussed new town taxi legislation.

Two East Hampton men were arrested over the past week on drunken-driving charges after failing roadside sobriety tests, according to East Hampton Town police.

Under the new proposal, the booth will be moved up toward Bluff Road which will allow additional parking on the west side of Indian Wells Highway, where there is now a sidewalk.

Work in January at Cyril's Fish House on Napeague resulted in a stop-work order issued by the East Hampton Town chief building inspector and two summonses for removing fuel tanks without a building permit.

Before the standard crowd of a few parents, one or two teachers and one community member, the Sag Harbor School Board of Education again discussed taping its meetings to expand access to the public.

East Hampton residents concerned that a new overhead transmission line through their neighborhood could be in place for two years before an underground line replaces it are doubling down on their demand that PSEG Long Island halt construction immediately.

A North Haven resident was arrested last week and charged in connection with a string of burglaries in East Hampton in 2013.

An early morning fire that swept through a house on Narrow Lane East in Sagaponack claimed the life of the homeowner and his pet dog on Saturday.

Work to complete the installation of 65-foot poles between East Hampton and Amagansett continues, as officials and residents push for a halt to the project.

Cait Godfrey has joined the team at JANGEORGe . Ms. Godfrey will manage, merchandise and maintain the company's East Hampton store, which opened on Main Street earlier this month, as well as help the company evolve its brand, refine its aesthetics and work on Interior Design Projects.

A group of rocking Elvises was among those taking part in the 2013 Montauk Friends of Erin St. Patrick's Day Parade.

A Sagaponack man died in a house fire early this morning, as did the man's dog, both trapped in a blaze that gutted the house at 198 Narrow Lane East, in Sagaponack, behind the Wolffer Estate Vineyard and horse farm.

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