As the East Hampton Town Board scheduled public hearings this week for controversial new airport regulations, which would effectively ban helicopters from East Hampton Airport on summer weekends as well as impose a strict nighttime curfew, another group aired concerns about the negative effects the laws could have on neighboring airports.

Amos Goodman, a Springs resident, this week announced he would seek the Republican nomination for Suffolk County legislator for the Second District.

Tearing down or even securing the crumbling Morpurgo house at 6 Union Street in Sag Harbor may not be as easy as it at first might have appeared.

The Southampton Town Board wants to establish term limits for all appointed advisory boards, with the hope that it will inject some new blood into the system.

Standard & Poor’s Rating Services last week reaffirmed the AAA rating issued to Southampton Town last year. The financial rating service said the town benefitted from a strong economy as well as strong management, budgetary flexibility, liquidity, debt profiles and other institutional frameworks.

Total revenue for the Peconic Bay Community Preservation Fund totaled $107.69 million in 2014, the highest annual total since the fund was established in 1999 to protect land from development, Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. announced this week.

Excitement over the arrival of the new Harbor Market & Kitchen, which is slated to replace a longtime Sag Harbor staple, Espresso’s Market, at the corner of Division and Henry streets, has turned to dread for some neighbors.

People who have been complaining about noise from East Hampton Airport seemed elated on Wednesday morning when the East Hampton Town Board suggested a year-round curfew for the airport as well as other steps to limit noisy operations, including banning all helicopters on weekends during the summer season.

Just days before the East Hampton Board was scheduled to discuss draft legislation to impose for the first time restrictions at East Hampton Airport in an attempt to reduce noise complaints, an organization of aviation advocates and business owners has taken two legal steps it says are aimed at preserving equal access to the airport.

Just days before the East Hampton Board is scheduled to hear the results of the third and final phase of the airport noise study, the Friends of the East Hampton Airport Coalition filed two targeted legal complaints in order to “protect safety and equal access to the airport.”