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1 week ago | 
easthamptonstar.com | Christopher Gangemi
OpenGov, software powering payments, permitting, and licensing on the Town of East Hampton’s website, is now open for business. In fact, all Planning Department applications must now be submitted digitally through the OpenGov portal, and beginning May 19 all Building Department applications must also be submitted online. Residents can begin using the portal immediately, however.
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1 week ago | 
easthamptonstar.com | Christopher Gangemi
A public hearing held by the East Hampton Town Board last Thursday about a community preservation fund acquisition at 351 Old Stone Highway in Springs highlighted the need for a subsequent discussion about changes to the town code regarding nature preserves, which came at Tuesday’s work session.
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1 week ago | 
easthamptonstar.com | Christopher Gangemi
The ospreys have been back on the East End since mid-March and their nesting activity is now apparent. Many roadside nests are occupied, and female ospreys are incubating eggs. Even a pair of ospreys whose nest was kicked into Accabonac Harbor last June have returned and are, once again, attempting to nest at the end of the same dock.
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1 week ago | 
easthamptonstar.com | Christopher Gangemi
The East Hampton Town Board has decided it’s time to restore the historic Peach House, which lies about a peach’s throw from the board’s own meeting room, and passed a resolution Tuesday to search for contractors. The renovation could begin this fall and be completed by May 2026, at which time it will house three town offices and a reception area. “We are pretty cramped here,” Supervisor Kathee Burke-Gonzalez explained.
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1 week ago | 
easthamptonstar.com | Christopher Gangemi
The East Hampton Town Board loves to eat outdoors. That was the message on Tuesday, when members indicated support to extend the Covid-era outdoor dining pilot program, which expired at the end of December. Tina Vavilis LaGarenne, the town’s planning director, recommended that the extension last until Dec. 31, 2028. It will be the subject of a public hearing, which the board voted to hold on June 5.
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1 week ago | 
easthamptonstar.com | Christopher Gangemi
People calling 911 in East Hampton Town won't notice a change, but come Jan. 1, for the first time in decades, calls coming from outside of East Hampton Village will be handled from the town police headquarters instead of from the village's Emergency Services Building. The shift is a result, at least in part, of tough negotiations between the two municipalities on the cost of the service. East Hampton Village budgeted $3.6 million for the dispatch center in the 2024-25 fiscal year.
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2 weeks ago | 
easthamptonstar.com | Christopher Gangemi
The East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals agreed last week to send a nonbinding letter of potential approval to the town planning board regarding 20 variances required for a major rebuild of the Devon Yacht Club that has been making its way through the town’s review boards for the better part of three years. “We’re not asking for an official decision,” Lisa Liquori, a consultant to the town Planning Department, told the zoning board over Zoom at its April 22 meeting.
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2 weeks ago | 
easthamptonstar.com | Christopher Gangemi
Two Springs ports of call, Rita Cantina and the Springs General Store (which hopes to be open by next summer) have been recommended for sizable grants ($70,038 and $131,567 respectively) to upgrade their septic systems, by East Hampton Town’s new water quality technical advisory committee. The town board will hold public hearings on their applications tonight, along with four other recommended projects. The Springs General Store has been closed since the end of the 2022 season.
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2 weeks ago | 
easthamptonstar.com | Christopher Gangemi
Native pollinator emerges from ground in March Recently, I found myself crawling under the large maple tree in my front yard. Hundreds of small mounds with holes, each the diameter of a pencil, surrounded me. Above them zigging, dark, smallish bees traced incomprehensible patterns through the air: cellophane bees. I was enthralled. The mounds, which for the last 25 years of my ignorant human life, I had believed to be anthills, were the entrances to their homes.
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2 weeks ago | 
easthamptonstar.com | Christopher Gangemi
The East Hampton Town Board considered three changes to its Code of Ethics last month. Two of the three sailed by an April 17 public hearing, but the third was not supported by the town’s seven-person board of ethics, represented by its longtime chairman, Hugh King. At present, elected officials and employees of the town are not allowed to accept a ticket to an event that is priced at over $75.
