Birders flocked to Bridgehampton on Sunday to view a pare of tropical kingbirds spotted in a field there the day before, the bird’s first appearance in Suffolk County.
Bonac Football Bounced From Playoffs
When it rains, it pours, and it certainly poured Friday night in West Islip, where the East Hampton High School football team contended with bad weather and a bit of bad luck in a 34-7 loss to the Lions in the first round of the playoffs.
November 9, 2026
Family of Student Who Died on Rafting Trip Sues School District
The Sag Harbor School District and its superintendent, Jeff Nichols, have been named in a wrongful death lawsuit filed this week by the parents of Cesar Adrian Albarracin Guncay, a sixth grader at Pierson Middle School who drowned in the Lehigh River in Pennsylvania while on a school trip in May.
November 6, 2026
Research Shows Ospreys in Peril
Reproductive success rates of late have been as low as during the DDT years, when osprey populations were decimated, a shocking development for a region that has come to view the rebound of the osprey as an inspiring environmental success story.
November 5, 2026
Police & Courts
A major structure fire that broke out just before 11 a.m. Friday in Montauk was still being tended to by emergency personnel late into the afternoon.
Nov 6, 2026
In Wainscott, when only one of the two drinks a man ordered from 7-Eleven through DoorDash was delivered, he complained to police. He eventually received both drinks.
Nov 5, 2026
Michael Wolff v. the First Lady
One year ago, The Star reported on Melania Trump’s threat to sue the author and journalist Michael Wolff for $1 billion if he did not retract and apologize for statements linking her to the late financier and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Here’s an update.
Nov 5, 2026
Questions Loom Over Este Restaurant
The owners of the proposed Este Restaurant, at 666 Montauk Highway in Montauk, are still wrestling with the East Hampton Town Planning Board a year after they received approval for a 39-seat eatery.
Nov 5, 2026
Government
The personal income-tax credit available to volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers in New York State just quadrupled.
Nov 5, 2026
The words “suburban” and “mall-like” may not have been what the owners of the buildings at 2 Main Street and 22 Long Island Avenue had in mind when they brought redevelopment plans to the Sag Harbor Village Planning Board last week.
Nov 5, 2026
A $1 million stormwater mitigation project at the Montauk Highway rest stop on the northern edge of Georgica Pond is imminent.
Nov 5, 2026
Spurred by the arrival of more retail chains and disappointment at how they were changing the face of the village, Sag Harbor commissioned a study on what a “formula store” is and how to control them.
Nov 5, 2026
Arts
‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Lives Anew
Bay Street Theater will next have Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” adapted for the stage by Aaron Sorkin, an Academy Award-winning screenwriter, and directed by Stephen Hamilton, one of the theater’s founders and its former executive director.
Nov 5, 2026
The Church will host a Reflections in Music concert featuring music by Bach, Ravel, Debussy, and Poulenc, and a talk by the author of a book about how 9/11 changed this country.
Nov 5, 2026
Opening at Guild Hall is its 86th Artist Members Exhibition along with “Somewhere in Time,” a solo show of paintings by Michael A. Butler, the winner of last year’s members show.
Nov 5, 2026
Ed German will be at the Southampton Cultural Center to perform “Deep Down in Brooklyn,” which follows his experiences earning a Purple Heart and going on to become a popular jazz and soul D.J. at the East End’s public radio station.
Nov 5, 2026
Villages
B-52s Founder Gets Hollywood Boulevard Star
Fred Schneider, who lives here, on the legendary new wave band’s 50-year rise from the college town of Athens, Ga., to the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
A Historical Marker for Second House
Members of the Montauk Historical Society and town, county, and state officials were on hand as a blue-and-gold cast-aluminum New York State historical marker was unveiled at Second House Museum in Montauk.
Item of the Week: Annie Phillips Osborne’s Rental House
These architectural blueprints show a 1904 house designed by John Custis Lawrence for “Mrs. Burnet M. Osborne.” So, who was this lady and why was her name on the plans?
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Food
News for Foodies 11.05.26
Lunch, a.k.a. Lobster Roll, is offering cocktail party packages to be consumed in its restaurants or at home, and this week’s class at Park Place Wines and Liquors will focus on Italian wines.
Nov 5, 2026
News for Foodies 10.29.26
Emily Weitz, an author, singer, and songwriter, is up next in Almond’s Artists and Writers series, while La Fondita will celebrate the Day of the Dead with menu specials.
Oct 29, 2026
News for Foodies 10.22.26
Long Island Restaurant Week nears, there’s a Spanish wine class at Park Place and an Artists’ Table at the Watermill Center, and whiskey and barbecue spice up the Sagaponack Farm Distillery.
Oct 22, 2026