East Hampton News

A committee formed to look at operations at East Hampton's town-owned airport -- and to try and bring together aviation supporters and airport noise foes who have been at odds for years -- is starting to find common ground, according to Town Board member Kathee Burke Gonzales.

Congressman Tim Bishop introduced a bill, another push for Marine Lance Cpl. Jordan C. Haerter and Cpl.

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.

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.

East Hampton Town police working in conjunction with Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota's East End Drug Task Force on Thursday afternoon arrested an East Hampton man with two prior felony convictions and charged him with making two sales of cocaine last year, both class B felonies.

Mollie Zweig has won one round in a court fight over whether she can line the beach-front bluff at her East Hampton Village property with a 166-foot-long wall of stone.

The state's Department of Environmental Conservation closed Accabonac Harbor to shellfishing in November, but new data in a report commissioned by the East Hampton Town Trustees suggest some areas could have remained open.

William LaGarenne, left, and Freddie Parker, right, remained in custody as they left East Hampton Town Justice Court with police officers last week.

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.