Montauk Counters Wainscott With Petition Against Deepwater Cable Landing
Residents groups from Montauk and Wainscott are circulating competing petitions, each seeking to convince state officials that their respective hamlets are the wrong place for the power cable from the South Fork Wind Farm to be connected to land.
Legal Hiccup Briefly Threatens 2 West Water Street Approvals
As recently as mid-July, a jurisdictional question threatened to impose one more regulatory hurdle on developer Jay Bialsky’s 2 West Water Street condo project just when it seemed he was ready to begin work after years of review by multiple government agencies.
Ceremony Set to Mark Opening of Steinbeck Park as a Public Space
Officials from Sag Harbor Village and Southampton Town will gather next week to celebrate the opening of the John Steinbeck Waterfront Park, named for the author who wrote “The Winter of Our Discontent” in Sag Harbor, but found contentment at home in the seaside village that embraced him and his wife, Elaine.
Mayor Makes First Appointments to Environmental Advisory Committee
Sag Harbor Village Mayor Kathleen Mulcahy’s promised Environmental Advisory Committee is beginning to take shape, with the mayor announcing its first five members at the first work session of the Village Board under her leadership on July 24.
U.S. Provides $900K to Study PFOS, PFOA Contamination in New York State
Two U.S. senators announced last week that the federal government has allocated nearly $900,000 in funding to conduct a New York State health study to analyze the harmful effects of emerging contaminants known as PFOS and PFOA.
Opponents Hammer Proposal for Oversized Fitness Facility in Bridgehampton
Several dozen community members attended the Southampton Town Planning Board meeting on Thursday, July 25, to speak in opposition to a proposal to build a 27,000-square-foot Equinox fitness and health facility along Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton.
Business Owners Fret about Surprise Closure of Long Wharf in September
Shopkeepers in Sag Harbor this week say they learned only by word of mouth and from local newspaper reports that Long Wharf would be closed to vehicles for a massive restoration project from September until June 2020.
Mayor Shows Concept Drawings for Steinbeck Park on Sag Harbor Waterfront
Images showing how Sag Harbor’s new 1.25-acre waterfront “Steinbeck Park” might look when it is fully developed and landscaped dazzled the handful of people — fewer than a dozen — who were in the audience for Mayor Kathleen Mulcahy’s first Village Board of Trustees work session on Wednesday, July 24.
Harbor Planners Urge Code Change to Control Waterfront Uses
Village attorney Denise Schoen and environmental planning consultant Kathy Eiseman will send a memo to the Sag Harbor Village Board of Trustees on behalf of the village’s planning board asking the trustees to consider a second look at the code that governs development on key waterfront parcels in Sag Harbor.
Science Star deGrasse Tyson Headed to The Spur
The theory’s impact on the science world is immeasurable—just as it is on astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who will be recording an episode of his podcast, focusing on the subject, at The Spur East in East Hampton on Friday.
County Study On Ticks Finds High Infection Rates In East Hampton
East Hampton has the highest percentage of Lyme disease-infected adult deer ticks among Suffolk County townships, a study released by county officials on Monday concluded.
Ørsted Wins Bid From New York State For Large New Wind Farm Off Montauk
State officials announced last week that energy supply contracts will be awarded to two offshore wind farm developers for the construction of giant wind...
New Towers Would Push Cost Of Emergency Radio System To Over $11 Million
With the total anticipated costs of a new emergency radio communications system climbing to more than $11 million, the East Hampton Town Board approved an additional $2.8 million in borrowing last week.
Town Acquires ‘Steinbeck Park’ Waterfront Parcel from Developer Jay Bialsky
In a pivotal step toward the creation of a new waterfront park in Sag Harbor, developer Jay Bialsky and the Town of Southampton’s Community Preservation Fund closed on the $10.5-million sale of his 1.25-acre parcel on the Sag Harbor waterfront — formerly known as 1,3,5 Ferry Road — to the town on Wednesday, July 25.
Tide Is High—And So Are The Stakes for Artist Raising Awareness About Ocean Debris
Another person’s trash is artist Cynthia Pease Roe’s treasure.
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State Grant Awarded for Havens Beach Drainage and Filter Improvements
The Village of Sag Harbor has received a State and Municipal Facilities Program grant of $125,000 to pay for most of the long-planned Havens Beach drainage and filter improvement project, on which work should get underway late this fall,
Eating What You Love: The Credo for Mile-a-Minute Weevils
Mile-a-Minute weevils live to eat Mile-a-Minute weed, an especially aggressive invasive species from Asia that is popping up all over the region. The Village of North Haven last year bought 500 of them at $1 each from an agricultural lab in New Jersey to suppress a patch of the fast-growing vine behind Village Hall. Like the weed they love to eat, the weevils are transplants from Asia.
Violations Don’t Mean Lots of Vessels Are Spewing Septic Waste, Harbormaster Says
The 53-percent non-compliance rate the Sag Harbor harbormaster found in July is no indication of the proportion of vessels that might be illegally discharging sewage into local waters, he said during an interview in his office overlooking the harbor later in the week.