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Thanks to new laws for Hamptons party balloons, finally, our skies and beaches will be completely free of helium balloons. Everybody will be happy.

BY MICHAEL WRIGHT East Hampton Town officials have proposed that the Community Preservation Fund bylaws be amended in the coming years to allow more annual revenues to be directed to water quality improvement projects, as the town expects the amount

BY MICHAEL WRIGHT East Hampton Town officials have accused the owners of the Shagwong Tavern in Montauk of violating their certification of occupancy by transforming the 100-year-old restaurant and bar into a “nightclub” with live music, dancing and

BY MICHAEL WRIGHT East Hampton Town officials on Tuesday confirmed plans to propose a land swap with Suffolk County, offering a 19-acre parcel that the town just purchased off East Lake Drive in exchange for 14 acres of woodlands adjacent to the Mont

BY MICHAEL WRIGHT It’s back to square one this week for the effort to privatize East Hampton Airport and limit flight traffic to the facility. The Town Board on Thursday, December 15, will reintroduce a proposal to temporarily close East Hampton Air

Nick & Toni’s Feast of the Seven Fishes Wine Dinner, Springs Food Pantry, Almond's holiday Berkshire suckling pig roast and more from the East End "Food Seen."

BY MICHAEL WRIGHT East Hampton Town may be going back to the drawing board for a fourth time on legislation to establish a local system of mandatory groundwater monitoring at sand mines and commercial composting operations. After the third draft of

BY MICHAEL WRIGHT East Hampton Town will move to steeply increase fines for violations of town shellfishing codes and will begin to craft a new, more serious charge for those who perpetrate especially “gross” violations of harvest controls. Members o

BY MICHAEL WRIGHT East Hampton Town officials this week pushed back against calls for Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc to use his power to declare a public emergency as an avenue to clear the way for a communications tower to be approved at the Springs Fi

BY MICHAEL WRIGHT East Hampton Town officials are considering reducing the required lot size that would be allowed for an accessory apartment, raising the amount that could be charged in rent, expanding the allowable size of the apartments, and even