Lineup begins at 11am on Main Street by Pondview Lane and Guild Hall. At 12pm registered participants will march east on Main Street and continue via Newton Lane, Railroad Avenue, and Lumber Lane to Herrick Park, where there will be music and celebration with D.J. Karin Ward till 3pm.
June 1, 2023 Time: 5:00-7:00 pm The East Hampton Library: Baldwin Room Join the Accabonac Protection Committee in person for refreshments in the Baldwin Room at 5:00 PM today! Accabonac Harbor and two sailboats in Summer. Photo Susan McGraw-Keber The library has set up a Zoom meeting. ID and password will be emailed to all participants 15 minutes prior to the start of the event. To Register for Zoom: Call (631) 324-0222 Ext. 3, or Stop by the Adult Reference Desk .LTV will film this event. Reminder, tomorrow, June 1, is the first APC Forum of 2023. Join us in person
Orsted – Eversource offshore wind turbines BOSTON – May 25, 2023 – Ørsted, the U.S. leader in offshore wind energy, announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Eversource Energy’s 50 percent interest in the uncontracted federal offshore wind lease area currently owned jointly by the two companies. In addition to the seabed, which is in early-stage development, the agreement also includes contracts and partnerships for key operational assets in the Northeast. The $625 million agreement further strengthens Ørsted’s leading position in offshore wind energy and demonstrates the company’s commitment to building an American offshore wind industry, including a supply chain
First Prize: Francisco Vasquez5th grade, Springs SchoolVideo: Don’t Trash East Hampton The Town of East Hampton Litter Action Committee had an extraordinary night at LTV Studios in Wainscott this past week – The winners, all from our local schools, from grades 6 – 12, entered their anti-trash message videos in the hope of winning the Grand Prize of three hundred dollars. All videos will be featured on LTV Channel 20 and will be added to this post when they become available. Winner of Litter Video The evening’s event was declared a great success as there was a terrific community turn
Ingleside, Texas – May 25, 2023 – In the latest milestone for the growth of the U.S. offshore wind supply chain, offshore wind joint development partners Ørsted and Eversource today marked the “sail away” of the first American-built offshore wind substation, which departed a Texas fabrication facility yesterday. The substation is transiting across the Gulf of Mexico and then up the East Coast for installation at the South Fork Wind project site in a few weeks. Kiewit Offshore Services, Ltd. (Kiewit), the largest offshore fabricator in the U.S., designed and built the substation, which will be deployed at Ørsted and Eversource’s
Beach Lane Wainscott Newly paved road after cable installation of South Fork Wind Farm 5/23/23 Photo Mike Wright EH Press Summer visitors returning to Wainscott this week for the first time since last September might never know the extent of the industrial construction that had taken place there over the last several months, or the pioneering efforts now underway just over the ocean’s horizon. Someone pulling up to the beach at the end of Beach Lane may only notice the fresh blacktop and brightly painted parking stripes on the roadway, without realizing that a foot-thick power cable that will soon
Accabonac Harbor saltmarsh Photo Susan McGraw -Keber Great news for homeowners who don’t want the mosquito control program provided by Suffolk County Department of Public Works to spray near their property located near marsh and wetland areas. SMK On May 1, as part of its mosquito control program, the Suffolk County Department of Public Works began to spray biological and chemical pesticides in some tidal marsh and wetland areas here. The agency says that its “use for mosquito control does not pose an unreasonable level of risk to the public or to the environment and is permitted by the New
Horseshoe crab measuring and tagging During the month of May, lead by Trustee Tim Garneau, the annual spawning season and surveying of horseshoe crabs began. May 3rd was the kickoff of the 2023 horseshoe crab spawning survey . (Full Moon -2) Deputy Clerk Jim Grimes, and Trustees John Aldred, and David Cataletto have also been collecting information, measuring and tagging the horseshoe crabs on our various beaches in East Hampton. Provided by Cornell Extension Marine Program, here’s what goes into this important annual survey: Fill out ALL of the fields on the data forms. Take the offshore visibility measurement from
In the past few years, the Atlantic Ocean coastline has seen several whales and other marine animals wash ashore, deceased. There are various causes that may have contributed to their demise. One of the main causes of death is from vessel strikes. The ocean is filled with large ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean daily. The other prominent cause is the result of fishing gear entanglement. Malnourishment, disease, and old age are contributing factors to whale and other marine species deaths. Protect Whales – Patch – May 12, 2023 Michael DeSantis -Staff Writer Recently, twenty environmental organizations have called for New
Beach Clean-up Sponsored by The East Hampton Town Trustees and The East Hampton Litter Action Committee on Saturday morning, May 13th at Atlantic Beach. East Hampton Middle School Surfrider Club students and Trustee and teacher, David Cataletto Beach Clean Up EH Litter Action Committee East Hampton Town Trustees David Cataletto and Susan McGraw-Keber were at Atlantic Avenue beach on Saturday morning to sign up the Surfrider Club school volunteers and give them a “Save A Fish” “End Balloon Pollution” cotton T-shirt for helping to clean up the beach. The Surfrider Club members are also students of David’s 6th grade class
Stuart Vorphal, the iconic former East Hampton Town Trustee, fisherman, historian, and secretary of the East Hampton Bayman’s Association, built the steel boat now on display at the East Hampton Historical Farm Museum at the corner of North Main Street and Cedar Street. Stuart Vorphal’s Vessel on view at East Hampton Historical Farm Photo Durell Godfrey “Mr. Vorpahl was a certified welder and built several boats, but his passion was fishing. In addition to his tenure as a town trustee and membership in the Baymen’s Association, he was also a member of the Long Island Commercial Fishing Association, the East
Saturday morning – May 6th, 2023 – The East Hampton Litter Action Committee’s “No Fling Spring” outreach to the Trustees to help in the month-long effort to educate and create awareness about litter debris gave us the opportunity to collaborate with the Lazy Point Association residents to clean up the surrounding beaches. Lazy Point Beach Clean Up May 6, 2023 LPA members, EH Town Trustees, SH Town Trustee, Volunteers from Schools Our local public school students joined in the effort – The John Marshall Elementary School, East Hampton Middle School’s Surfrider Club with their teacher and Trustee, David Cataletto, and
Statement from Orsted Regarding Mooring System in Use
“As part of the fish monitoring study outlined in the SFW Fisheries Study Work Plan, the Stony Brook University team is conducting a regular visit to the sensor array off Wainscott today to collect data from sensors, replace batteries, and deploy new retrievable moorings alongside the previous moorings. As the Stony Brook team is deploying new moorings alongside the existing moorings there’s no change to the mariners briefing, our standard method for updating mariners on the presence of equipment in navigational waters. Members of the fisheries outreach team, in collaboration with the research team, have worked with the fishing community to select an alternative mooring, one that is smaller, lightweight and retrievable, and is more compatible with commercial fishing in response to the feedback we’ve received from the community on original deployment of cement moorings.”
Images of the mooring system and a diagram are shown below.
