Dozens of metal poles are sprouting up across East Hampton Town this fall. These “small cell” towers, each 42 feet tall, are the first of 192 planned across the town, most of them in Springs and Northwest, and they’re catching residents off guard.
Sand Pit Purchase Is Cheered
In order for the town’s $36 million purchase at the Wainscott sand pit to go through, both the Peconic Land Trust and the Friends of Georgica Pond Foundation must raise $15 million in private funding by Dec. 31.
October 22, 2026
Comprehensive Plan Comes Into Focus
“You can use this for the next 10 years and beyond, hopefully, to start to check off some of the things that are priorities for the community,” Noah Levine of BFJ Planning told the East Hampton Village Board as it reviewed a draft comprehensive plan.
October 22, 2026
Police & Courts
A man was buying a newspaper last week in Sag Harbor, he told police, when someone came up behind him and grabbed “his pectoral area and nuzzled his ear.”
Oct 22, 2026
Two women stole a pumpkin from a bench outside Amber Waves Farm in Amagansett Saturday.
Oct 15, 2026
Early Voting Begins Saturday
In East Hampton, early voting is at Windmill Village on Accabonac Road from Saturday through Nov. 1.
Oct 22, 2026
Voting Advocates on Alert
The director of Common Cause New York and election experts and voting rights advocates said last week that while this year has seen “an unprecedented effort to mess with our elections and scare and confuse people about the voting process,” a statewide effort to train and organize volunteers will ensure that New York voters can vote with ease and confidence.
Oct 22, 2026
Government
Despite the political headwinds Republican candidates face nationally, polls suggest that all four Long Island congressional incumbents, two Republicans and two Democrats, will win re-election.
Oct 22, 2026
Gov. Kathy Hochul and her challenger, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, came out swinging in their only debate on Oct. 13, the governor repeatedly tying Mr. Blakeman to President Trump and ICE actions, while he hammered her on taxes and the cost of living.
Oct 22, 2026
As the leaves began to fall, a dozen East Hampton Town residents appeared at a town board meeting to call, once again, for a year-round ban on gas-powered leaf blowers.
Oct 22, 2026
At a town hall-style meeting last week about drinking water contamination resulting from a 2023 fire at a battery energy storage facility in East Hampton there was an acknowledgement that Suffolk County’s investigation into the source of the tainted water, and its understanding of “the plume,” is mostly complete.
Oct 22, 2026
Arts
Miro Quartet to Open BCM’s Fall Series
Bridgehampton Chamber Music’s fall series will kick off with music by Franz Schubert and Caroline Shaw and continue with Brahms, Schumann, Beethoven, and Gershwin.
Oct 22, 2026
Southampton Arts Center audiences will be transported to Long Island in the Roaring Twenties with a new production of “The Great Gatsby.”
Oct 22, 2026
Nutsa Gogaladze, an artist and illustrator from Tbilisi, Georgia, is in residence in East Hampton to engage with the work of Elaine de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and the community.
Oct 22, 2026
“The Elephant Man,” the Tony Award-winning drama about a deformed young man in Victorian England and the surgeon who took him in, will be at LTV Studios in Wainscott.
Oct 22, 2026
Villages
Paddling for New Sag Harbor Cove Dock
The weather was perfect on Oct. 10 when Sag Harbor Community Rowing’s fourth annual Poker Paddle, a fund-raiser for the construction of a dock that will be available for all to use, drew people of all ages to Sag Harbor Cove.
Item of the Week: John Alexander Tyler’s Gravestone
This broken-column style of gravestone was typically used to commemorate someone whose life was cut short, which makes sense for a man who died at 35 years old, a son of the East Hampton-born first lady Julia Gardiner Tyler and President John Tyler.
A Fall Wedding at Fireplace Farm
Nicolette Atlas Cardamone and William Angier Duke were married at Fireplace Farm on Oct. 10. The groom’s sister, Ellie Duke of Springs, officiated.
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Food
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
News for Foodies 10.15.26
Wine Wednesday workshops return to Nick and Toni’s, dinner and bar specials at Gigi’s Montauk, and a mahjong brunch at Lunch in Southampton.
Oct 15, 2026
News for Foodies 10.08.26
Chowders by more than 20 local chefs will benefit the Springs Food Pantry, chillable reds are to be featured at Park Place Wines, and an Oktoberfest celebration in Montauk.
Oct 8, 2026