With the 2025 election in the rearview mirror, East Hampton Village Mayor Jerry Larsen has offiically announced plans to challenge newly re-elected Supervisor Kathee Burke-Gonzalez for the Democratic nomination in 2026.
Community Rallies for Rob Balnis
When Rob Balnis had a stroke while driving to his office at East End Physical Therapy in late August and his car hit a tree, he was abruptly placed on a trajectory he had helped countless patients navigate over his 25-year career as a physical therapist — this time as a patient himself.
November 13, 2025
Police & Courts
Responding Friday night to a report of a structure fire on Further Lane, an officer spoke with the homeowner, who explained that he’d left a piece of pie in the microwave for too long.
Nov 13, 2025
A Nissan sedan collided with a Range Rover on Amagansett’s Main Street, and in Springs it was a BMW and a Buick.
Nov 13, 2025
An “older white man wearing a green hoodie and jeans” was wandering around his backyard, an Abraham’s Path resident reported Saturday. While an officer was en route, the resident called back to say that the man was a gardener.
Nov 6, 2025
Epstein to Wolff: Trump ‘Knew About the Girls’
New in the scandal that won’t go away: President Trump knew about the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of girls, according to email exchanges between Epstein and Michael Wolff, the Amagansett author and journalist profiled in The Star last week.
Nov 13, 2025
New Lights Near for Amagansett’s Main Street
The plan calls for 46 to 50 “historical style” light fixtures such as those installed in Sag Harbor, spaced approximately 100 feet apart on either side of Main Street from Windmill Lane to Meeting House Lane. The existing “cobra head” lights affixed to metal poles would be removed.
Nov 13, 2025
Government
East Hampton Town’s attorney, Jake Turner, has concluded that a complaint by neighbors of 370 and 372 Further Lane in Amagansett, where the properties’ new owners have planted a hedge and trees in an easement, is without merit as the plantings do not violate easements created in 1989 and respected until recently.
Nov 13, 2025
In 2022, Mary Mackey applied through the East Hampton Town Home Improvement Program to have her house’s exterior doors and windows replaced. Under the program, the town paid the up-front costs, and held that as a lien against the house. When the homeowner sells, the money is repaid interest-free. More than three years later, Ms. Mackey’s project is still incomplete.
Nov 13, 2025
Cornell Cooperative Extension will conduct a bottom trawl survey from Smith Point Inlet, in Brookhaven Town, to Montauk Point. It is scheduled to begin on Monday and continue through Nov. 23.
Nov 13, 2025
The East Hampton Town Board held two public hearings on its 2026 preliminary budget last week: one to allow it to pierce the state-mandated 2-percent cap on tax levy increases, and the other on the details of the budget itself.
Nov 13, 2025
Arts
Simon Kirke Enters Rock Hall of Fame
The drummer and composer, who lives in Montauk, is a founding member of Bad Company, which joined the 2025 Hall of Fame inductees Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker, the White Stripes, Cyndi Lauper, OutKast, and Soundgarden.
Nov 13, 2025
"Fahrenheit 451" at Sag Harbor's Bay Street Theater, adapted by Ray Bradbury from his 1953 novel, depicts a future in which books have been banned and firemen burn any that are found.
Nov 13, 2025
The Parrish Art Museum has launched a curatorial partnership with the FLAG Art Foundation that will yield three exhibitions annually, starting in March with an Ellsworth Kelly show.
Nov 13, 2025
The Church in Sag Harbor will host Cas Holman, whose book "Playful" urges play in adults' lives, Margaret Garrett, a former dancer turned visual artist, and a casual drawing meetup.
Nov 13, 2025
Villages
Recognizing Grossman’s Half-Century of Activism
Karl Grossman, an author and educator who has tirelessly advocated for the environment and journalism, and against nukes, will be honored on Saturday at the Sag Harbor Cinema in a fund-raiser hosted by Fred Thiele.
Item of the Week: Payment by the Yard, 1794
This weaver’s account book was kept by Benjamin Parsons, who began recording business transactions in 1794. His father was one of 49 weavers in East Hampton who signed the 1778 Loyalty Oath to the British.
Stepping Up for Jamaica in Hurricane Melissa’s Wake
East Hampton Town’s Jamaican population has been focused on the news and social media since Melissa struck as a Category 5 storm last week, making landfall with winds up to 185 miles per hour.
