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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Alek Lewis

    2 plead guilty to accepting bribes to speed up East Hampton building permits (opens the original)

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    Two people accused of accepting cash bribes from contractors to accelerate building permits in East Hampton Town have pleaded guilty and agreed to community service, probation and financial penalties in deals with the judge that will allow them to avoid jail time, their lawyers said. Evelyn Calderon, 47, a suspended senior office assistant in the East Hampton Town Building Department, and Ryan Benitez, 38, a former building inspector there, pleaded guilty this week to five counts of third-degree

  2. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Alek Lewis

    Beach repair to close section of Dune Road in Southampton Town (opens the original)

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    A portion of Dune Road east of the Ponquogue Bridge will be closed for several days next week as Suffolk County conducts emergency repairs to a dune damaged by the nor'easter. The roughly 1-mile section of the road, which runs parallel to the ocean, will be closed from Monday through Thursday next week, from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., for dune restoration activity, Southampton Town said in a notice. The road leads to the western side of Shinnecock Inlet. The oceanfront on Dune Road was severely eroded by

  3. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Alek Lewis

    East Hampton residents push for more testing into toxic plume (opens the original)

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    While state officials say a chemical found in East Hampton drinking water near where a battery storage plant caught fire is unlikely to have caused harm, some residents are calling for more extensive health testing. On Tuesday, state health and environmental officials briefed the town on contamination findings related to the May 2023 fire at a plant on Cove Hollow Road. It took more than 30 hours to contain the thermal-runaway fire. In May, the Suffolk County Water Authority revealed in court fi

  4. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Alek Lewis

    Netflix's 'Women Like Us' could bring $100G to Shelter Island (opens the original)

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    Shelter Island Town stands to collect more than $100,000 in fees and deposits from Netflix when the company comes to film "Women Like Us," a new comedy movie starring Whoopi Goldberg, later this month. The large-scale production is expected to bring approximately 200 cast and crew members to Shelter Island for 11 days of filming between Sept. 20 and 30, qualifying it as a “mega film” under Shelter Island’s town code. Netflix is set to pay a $55,000 "mega filming" fee and $7,700 for use of a town

  5. Article · Sep 12, 2026 · Alek Lewis

    Second rabid raccoon found in Suffolk this week came into contact with a person in Babylon (opens the original)

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    A person was exposed to a raccoon in Babylon on Wednesday that later tested positive for rabies, the second instance of a raccoon carrying the deadly virus found in Suffolk County this week, county health officials said. The rabid animals — the first was found dead in Bay Shore — bring the number of confirmed terrestrial rabies cases in the county to 44 since February 2025, the Suffolk County Department of Health Services said in a news release Saturday. In Babylon, the raccoon was found outside

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