A woman was injured after the car she was driving was rear-ended by a Jeep and pushed through a fence at the Watchcase Factory condominiums.
When We’ve ‘Shuffled Off This Mortal Coil’
Never has a group of people been happier to talk about human composting than at Edwina von Gal’s Perfect Earth panel discussion on green burial held at the LongHouse Reserve last weekend.
July 23, 2026
The Tree Man Cometh
On the South Fork, where the effects of climate change are seen in woodlands decimated by the southern pine beetle, Rivers Burke hopes to plant as many redwood and sequoia trees, both of which are highly fire resistant, as he possibly can, in the process inspiring others to take up the cause.
July 23, 2026
Police & Courts
Individuals wearing camouflage in a field on Sarah’s Way in East Hampton Village alarmed a resident on Saturday afternoon. Police found a family playing on their own property with airsoft guns.
Jul 30, 2026
A Montauk man riding an electric bike at 3 a.m. on July 6 was injured after crashing into a parked car.
Jul 30, 2026
For Some Town Trustees, Truck Beach Grievances Persist
The clerk and a deputy clerk of the East Hampton Town Trustees vented their continued frustration with the town board to their colleagues recently, exasperated over being found in civil and criminal contempt for failing to prevent vehicles from using a 4,000-foot stretch of Napeague beach that a State Supreme Court judge had ruled was privately owned.
Jul 30, 2026
LaLota Doubles Down on Withholding Federal Money
Representative Nick LaLota, who announced last month that he was cutting off East Hampton Town and Village from federal community project funding over their adoption of laws prohibiting cooperation with the federal government in civil immigration enforcement, is not letting up in his threats.
Jul 23, 2026
Government
Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine announced last week that the county intends to buy the 822-acre island, largely untouched by development except for the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, and described it as an environmental jewel.
Jul 23, 2026
The time for America’s testing has come, Judge Michael Luttig told a rapt audience at Guild Hall in East Hampton on Monday. “In Lincoln’s terms,” he said, “we are going to determine, in this calendar year, whether this nation, or any nation so conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, can long endure.”
Jul 23, 2026
Following several changes to legislation that would allow for rent-restricted employer-sponsored housing, the town board held a second public hearing on the proposal on July 16, but the changes were not enough, apparently, to create public support.
Jul 23, 2026
Three marshes in East Hampton Town — at Cedar Point County Park, Napeague, and Beach Hampton — were scheduled to be sprayed with a larvicide this week, weather permitting, according to the Suffolk County Department of Health Services.
Jul 23, 2026
Arts
Alexander Reinwald: Art and the Automobile
Alexander Reinwald is an artist, an in-demand automobile design and restoration specialist, and the founder of Gallery 851 in Springs, which will open a show of work by the celebrated artist Joe Zucker.
Jul 30, 2026
A weekend focused on Black storytelling, performance, and community will feature a variety of programming at the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center, The Church, Guild Hall, and EHP Resort.
Jul 30, 2026
A new production of “Dear Evan Hansen,” the winner of six Tony Awards, including best musical, is for “anyone who has been a teenager, is a teenager, or has a teenager,” according to Scott Schwartz, the director.
Jul 30, 2026
Up next in LTV’s Hamptons Summer Songbook series are Barbara Fasano and Eric Comstock singing Porter, Rodgers and Hart, Sondheim, and more, while Laurence Maslon provides commentary and cocktails.
Jul 30, 2026
Villages
An Orca Off Montauk?
A widely circulated social media post last week from Craig O’Connell, host of Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, and founder of the O’Seas Conservation Foundation in Montauk, raised the possibility that an orca, colloquially known as a killer whale, was spotted 10 nautical miles off the tip of Long Island.
Item of the Week: The Old Hook Mill by Hamilton King
This depiction of Hook Mill was hand-painted on a ceramic tile by Hamilton King sometime before 1950 at the request of Maude Sherwood Jewett, a fellow artist who founded the Tile Painters Club of East Hampton.
Vets Said They Felt the Love at Soldier Ride
“This has been the best experience I’ve ever had. I’ve been telling people, ‘I feel more welcome now than when I actually came home,’ ” said Sabrina Mohammed, a veteran who took part in Soldier Ride the Hamptons on July 18.
Sports
Long Island Books
Food
News for Foodies 07.30.26
A wine special at Topside on Gosman’s Dock, an innovative brew from Kidd Squid at Almond restaurant, and a new outdoor dinner spot on Shelter Island.
Jul 30, 2026
News for Foodies 07.16.26
An acclaimed chef is up next in Guild Hall’s Stirring the Pot, a panel on Long Island wines at the Hampton Library, Navy Beach launches Sunday brunch, and catering-to-go from Art of Eating.
Jul 16, 2026
News for Foodies 07.09.26
Omakase is coming to the East End at LDV at the Maidstone and Gurney’s in Montauk, and Lion’s Nook is open at the former Rowdy Hall.
Jul 9, 2026