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2 weeks ago | 
easthamptonstar.com | Christopher Gangemi
A proposed amendment to the East Hampton Town Code that would allow certain projects to be defined as “community resources,” and thus exempt from compliance with the town zoning, planning, and architectural review board review, received a warm, if at times cautious, reception from the town board at its meeting on Tuesday. “This is not a novel concept.
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2 weeks ago | 
easthamptonstar.com | Christopher Gangemi
You go to school to become a doctor. You become a human rights activist after climbing the first 22,000 feet of Chomohunga (the Tibetan side of Mount Everest) in a pair of sneakers and then stumbling across China’s military occupation of Tibet, in Lhasa. That’s the way Dr. Blake Kerr, who served the South Fork from his Wainscott Walk-In Medical Care Office for 20 years, tells it. It was all rather casual and accidental.
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2 weeks ago | 
easthamptonstar.com | Christopher Gangemi
A strong turnout from East Hampton residents dubious about plans to build affordable housing in their neighborhoods has at least temporarily derailed the town’s efforts to purchase four parcels of land from Suffolk County.
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2 weeks ago | 
easthamptonstar.com | Christopher Gangemi
Residents close to the Springs Fire Department may notice something odd in the skies on April 21. A balloon, three feet in diameter, hovering exactly 150 feet above the location of a proposed communications tower behind the firehouse. While there’s already a 150-foot-tall tower on the 2.7-acre property, the fire department plans to relocate it.
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3 weeks ago | 
easthamptonstar.com | Christopher Gangemi
One of the four windmill arms at the historic Pantigo Mill, behind the Home, Sweet Home Museum, fell off in Thursday's storm. The broken arm was first discovered by the Rev. Benjamin Shambaugh of St. Luke's Episcopal Church on his morning walk Friday. Dave Collins, the superintendent for public works for the village, said there was no timeline for repair. "We're in contact with a contractor who is working on a windmill project at Westhampton Beach.
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3 weeks ago | 
easthamptonstar.com | Christopher Gangemi
Elon Musk, whose newly created Department of Government Efficiency has been tasked by President Trump with rooting out wasteful spending and bloated bureaucracy, has finally hit his mark, nailing the summer reading program at the Montauk Library. “We all collaborate with the New York State Library on summer reading,” Denise DiPaolo, the director of the Montauk Library, said. “We all try to use the same theme.
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3 weeks ago | 
easthamptonstar.com | Christopher Gangemi
Accessory dwelling units, or A.D.U.s, have been regarded as a relatively unobtrusive way to provide affordable housing in East Hampton Town and encouraged, through legislative incentives, by the town board. Looking to make constructing such a unit even easier, the town’s A.D.U. committee made five recommendations to the board at Tuesday’s meeting, suggesting removing some zoning restrictions and changing eligibility requirements.
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3 weeks ago | 
easthamptonstar.com | Christopher Gangemi
Accessory dwelling units, or A.D.U.s, have been regarded as a relatively unobtrusive way to provide affordable housing in East Hampton Town and encouraged, through legislative incentives, by the town board. Looking to make constructing such a unit even easier, the town’s A.D.U. committee made five recommendations to the board at Tuesday’s meeting, suggesting removing some zoning restrictions and changing eligibility requirements.
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3 weeks ago | 
easthamptonstar.com | Christopher Gangemi
The East Hampton Town Democratic Committee will co-host a protest with a group of concerned citizens from Springs on Saturday from noon to 1 p.m. along Pantigo Road in front of Town Hall. The protest is part of a nationwide “day of action” organized by Hands Off 2025. There are also protests planned in Sag Harbor, at Steinbeck Park, and at other spots across the East End and beyond. “Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them.
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3 weeks ago | 
easthamptonstar.com | Christopher Gangemi
Five years after an eight-acre parcel comprising four lots, across from the Wolffer Estate Vineyard in Sagaponack, was purchased for agricultural use with money from the Southampton Town Community Preservation Fund, it remains fallow, and Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt are now asking the Southampton Town Board to switch the parcel’s use to protect Poxabogue Pond, which the land borders.
