The East Hampton Town Board will hold an emergency meeting on Thursday to vote on a resolution authorizing an emergency appropriation of $30,000 to local food pantries, due to the continued shutdown of the federal government.
Calling All Vampires to LTV
LTV Studios will host a Vampire Masquerade Thursday and Our Fabulous Variety Show’s Disco Ball fund-raiser on Saturday.
October 28, 2025
Police & Courts
The shaving cream vandal struck again over the weekend, this time spraying the stuff around the interior and exterior of the men’s restroom in the Reutershan parking lot downtown Saturday night.
Oct 30, 2025
A dog had been barking on and off in a fenced-in backyard for four days, a Springs-Fireplace Road neighbor reported on the night of Oct.15, adding that the house appeared to be empty and abandoned. Police went to the property and found a large black-and-white husky, “whimpering and shivering.”
Oct 23, 2025
Town police made two similar felony-level arrests for drunken driving last week, one on Main Street in Montauk and the other in East Hampton.
Oct 23, 2025
About Those Ballot Propositions
Proposal 1 has to do with new ski and biathlon trails in upstate forestland. Proposal 2 addresses Suffolk County term limits vis-a-vis the state’s even-year election law.
Oct 30, 2025
Dredging, Dune Work to Begin in Montauk
The East Hampton Town Board reported that work was imminent on two long-awaited projects in Montauk: the Ditch Plain dune reconstruction and the dredging of the Lake Montauk Inlet.
Oct 23, 2025
Government
It’s been nearly a year since East Hampton Town asked builders to submit proposals to design and build houses for the affordable housing subdivision called Cantwell Court. All the estimates they got back were too expensive.
Oct 23, 2025
From the Building Department to the senior center, contrasts were drawn between the town board’s Cate Rogers and Ian Calder-Piedmonte, incumbent Democrats, and J.P. Foster, their Republican challenger.
Oct 23, 2025
Monday’s Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee meeting saw an appeal for support from a resident of Further Lane whose new neighbor at number 370 has planted a double hedge along the lane, blocking a cherished vista. ACAC members were sympathetic.
Oct 23, 2025
The opening of scallop season in state waters is Nov. 3. In town trustee waters the date is Nov. 9. But the harvest may not be very good.
Oct 23, 2025
Arts
Fitzhugh Karol: Ceramics to Steel
Fitzhugh Karol, whose work is on view at the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs, moves with assurance from ceramic reliefs to iconic wooden totems to large-scale steel sculptures.
Oct 30, 2025
A busy weekend at The Church in Sag Harbor will include stargazing with the Vanderbilt Museum’s mobile planetarium, a writing workshop, and a “drawing happening.”
Oct 30, 2025
LTV Studios will host a Vampire Masquerade Thursday and Our Fabulous Variety Show’s Disco Ball fund-raiser on Saturday.
Oct 28, 2025
The Southampton Cultural Center will host a recital by Tian Tang, a prize-winning concert pianist, and a jazz jam session featuring Real East End Brass.
Oct 30, 2025
Villages
Common Cuckoo a Birding First in New York State
A common cuckoo, a bird known in the United States only for its famous “cuckoo clock” sound, was spotted on Oct. 23 in Riverhead. If the sighting is approved by the New York State Avian Records Committee, it will mark the first time the bird has ever appeared in New York State.
On the Mend After a Life-Threatening Infection
It has been a long road to recovery for Chris Carillo, but on Monday night he returned to East Hampton Town Hall to meet with the town trustees, for whom he serves as attorney, almost four months after a dangerous bout with Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA.
Interfaith Leaders Offer Hope in Tough Times
“The aim here is for us to have the differences, vocalize them, and for us to be patient and understand where they’re coming from,” said Dr. Asma Rashid, a co-host with Jim Vrettos of an interfaith disussion on creating unity in an age that feel increasingly divisive and isolating.
