Photo Andrew Gaites The spotted lanternfly, a pest now common in New York City, has made its way to the East End. On Tuesday, Andy Gaites, the principal environmental analyst in East Hampton Town’s Department of Land Acquisition and Management, found two on an ailanthus tree just south of Halsey’s Marina, in a preserve at 41 Three Mile Harbor-Hog Creek Road. To read the article by Christopher Gangemi : EH STAR
Join the Town of East Hampton’s Litter CleanUp Day at one of these locations on September 16th! Reach out to the organizers via email to sign up! Our community members are all welcome! Trustee Susan McGraw-Keber will join the Lazy Point Association members at 9AM at the boat ramp to help pick up litter at the beaches and roadways!
Please be advised, the Trustees have hereby cancelled the executive session which was previously scheduled to take place on Friday, September 8, 2023 at 5:30 p.m. at Town Hall.
SPECIAL GARDEN TOUR SUNDAY, Sunday, September 10th @ 11 AM. COMMUNITY NATIVE/POLLINATOR GARDEN AT EAST HAMPTON TOWN HALL. A public-private project between ChangeHampton and Town of East Hampton. The starting point of our garden tour 159 Pantigo Rd., EH. Photo: Abby Lawless LEARN ABOUT POLLINATOR/NATIVE GARDENS, RAIN GARDENS & BIOSWALES Photo by Laurie Petroske The Bioswale at Methodist Lane, East Hampton. Photo: Surfrider A DIFFERENT KIND OF GARDEN TOUR! BEAUTY & ECO-SERVICES —We begin at ChangeHampton’s Community Pollinator Garden at East Hampton Town Hall. Tour guides: Abby Clough Lawless, Farm Landscape Design, designer of the garden and Paul Muñoz, Eco-Harmony Inc. whose crews have done the heavy landscaping
Boats returning to Lake Montauk this June after the Blessing of the Fleet. Judging from the volume of boat pumpouts, the town trustees say recreational boating has slackened in Lake Montauk this year. Higher costs and diminished Covid concerns are blamed. Jane Bimson The Trustees will soon calculate this season’s number of vessels that utilized our pump-out boats that service boats of Montauk and Three Mile harbors at the end of this season. Observing the last few years, including those of the pandemic when there was a noticeable increase of use of our free services for the collection of waste
Photo NASA So-called “super” because it’s slightly closer to Earth and “blue” because it’s the second full moon in a month. It peaks at 9:36pm ET on Aug. 30 (0136 UTC on Aug. 31). Tonight: The full Moon will be Wednesday night, August 30, 2023, appearing opposite the Sun (in Earth-based longitude) at 9:36 PM EDT. The planet Saturn, just a few days from its closest and brightest for the year, will appear near the Moon. As evening twilight ends (at 8:42 PM) Saturn will be 5 degrees to the upper right of the Moon, and will appear to swing
A species of waterborne bacteria that can cause life-threatening wound infections has killed three people and sickened others in New York and Connecticut. One East Hampton Town resident was sickened after swimming off Gerard Drive in Springs. Photo & article: Christopher Walsh East Hampton Star *Tune in to the East Hampton Town Trustees meeting on Monday evening, August 28th at 6:30pm on Channel 22, LTV public television- Guest: Dr. Christopher Gobler of Gobler Laboratories of Stony Brook University, will provide information regarding our waters and the recent discovery of vibrio vulnificus in various waters from the Long Island Sound to
Please be ADVISED: The Montauk Self-Serve Pump Out station will be CLOSED on SEPT. 5, 2023 for the installation of the new, upgraded holding tank system. The installation may take two to three days. The station will NOT be operational during this period. Please plan accordingly. Have your vessel holding tank emptied prior to this date as there will be NO place to offload your effluent and Lake Montauk is a NOT DISCHARGE ZONE.
The 33rd Annual The East Hampton Town Trustees: 2022-2023 “Largest Clam Contest” will soon be here! September 24th/Sunday/ 12 Noon- 3Pm at the Amagansett Life-Saving & Coast Guard Station Museum located at 160 Atlantic Avenue, Amagansett, NY 11930 This year, when you purchase our NEW mug with the Trustee emblem, you’ll also get a mug full of delicious homemade “Bonac” clam chowder! All proceeds go to The East Hampton Town Trustees Scholarship Fund to help a graduating student of our EHHS with their college or higher learning tuition! A great community event- FREE! We look forward to seeing you there!
Skye Tanzmann and Nick Cooper of East Hampton High School, were recognized for their efforts to build an oyster reef in Accabonac Harbor waters. Ms. Tanzmann is also the recipient of this year’s annual scholarship from the East Hampton Town Trustees Scholarship Fund. This past Spring, Tanzmann and Cooper interned with the not-for-profit South Fork Sea Farmers. The Trustees were provided with an in-depth plan for the oyster reef project by Ms. Tanzmann earlier in the year, encouraged by the student’s thorough research and procurement of necessary state permits. We wish Ms. Tanzmann and Mr. Cooper the best and great
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.
