It looked like a small tornado tore through the Montauk Green and the Montauk Artists Association Art Show early Sunday morning. Instead, East Hampton Town police say, the destruction was caused by a drunken driver.
It looked like a small tornado tore through the Montauk Green and the Montauk Artists Association Art Show early Sunday morning. Instead, East Hampton Town police say, the destruction was caused by a drunken driver.
Supreme Court Justice Timothy P. Mazzei approved a plea bargain on Wednesday morning in the case of Darius Petty, 35, an East Hampton man accused of kidnapping and robbing three young men at knifepoint in the parking lot of the East Hampton Town Senior Center last September.
He was “just out for a walk” on the night of June 18, a Wooded Oak Lane man told officers responding to reports of a suspicious person in the area, before admitting that he’d been going through his neighbors’ mailboxes.
Two S.U.V.s, one a Hyundai and the other a Mercedes, were badly damaged in a collision at the intersection of Stephen Hand’s Path and Potters Lane, off Huckleberry Lane in East Hampton, on the morning of June 20.
The attorney for the driver in a fatal Springs accident on June 15 confirmed on June 19 that the Suffolk County district attorney’s office had notified her that it would be convening a grand jury on upgraded charges the following day.
While conditions had improved by Monday, last weekend, the Surfrider Foundation’s Eastern Long Island chapter, which partners with Concerned Citizens of Montauk and the Peconic Baykeeper in sampling and analyzing local waters, canceled an International Surfing Day meetup that was to happen that day at Ditch Plain Beach, citing alarmingly high levels of Enterococcus bacteria in the water.
The East Hampton Village Board was criticized at its meeting last week for not doing enough to communicate two new laws that have been ensnaring landscapers and contractors since the middle of May. One requires service workers to register annually with the village at a cost of $250. The other, a noise ordinance, shortens hours for certain landscaping and construction activities between May 15 and Sept. 15.
East Hampton Town’s Democratic Party candidates launched their 2025 campaign on Monday with a gathering marked by gloomy assessments of Democrats’ status at the national level mixed with encouraging signs of resistance. At home, they enjoy a supermajority on the town board and among the town trustees, with some incumbents running unopposed for re-election.
The East Hampton Town Trustees will write a letter to the town board supporting the purchase of two parcels fronting Georgica Cove by the Peconic Land Trust, which is at present in contract, and the simultaneous sale of an easement to the town and to East Hampton Village to ensure their preservation in perpetuity.
The East Hampton Village Board voted to approve a $30.7 million budget for the next fiscal year that includes a tax increase of 1.28 percent for village residents.
The East Hampton Village Board has posted new dates for public hearings on a plan to trim term limits for the zoning board of appeals and the planning board from five years to three. Those hearings will now be held on July 2.
An 18-foot-tall elephant balancing on its trunk, a horse made of mud and sticks, and a 12-foot spider are only three of the more than 50 animal sculptures assembled for "The Ark" at The Church in Sag Harbor.
LTV's Hamptons Summer Songbook by the Sea will kick off with the legendary vocalist Marilyn Maye performing "A 100th Birthday Tribute to Johnny Carson" — and, at 97, she's still going strong.
Thousands of art enthusiasts and 120 galleries and exhibitors will descend on Southampton for the four-day Hamptons Fine Art Fair.
Guild Hall will host a concert by Julian Lage, a guitar virtuoso, and Jorge Roeder, an acclaimed bassist, and the Gibney Dance Company will perform works by three prominent choreographers.
The last few years have presented challenges the Springs Food Pantry’s founders could not have anticipated when it was first established. More than 600 families are now registered to receive the assistance it provides, and an average of 355 families are served each week.
One of the essential roles of religion, Rabbi Jan Uhrbach of the Bridge Shul in Bridgehampton said this week, is to “help us hold onto our humanity, and remind us of the higher values that go beyond money and power and position and all of those things, in a time when the values that I hold dear are not only being violated, they’re being rejected as values.”
Hemerocallis may be an unfamiliar term, but the garden adjacent to Clinton Academy once bore the name. This photo shows the gate to the garden some two decades after its establishment in 1941.
Just as victory gardens brought fresh-grown produce to Americans during World War II, the East End Community Organic Farm and Bridge Gardens are two South Fork gardens offering a victory garden vibe.
Happy hour at Rowdy Hall, catering from Il Buco al Mare, a Burgundy tasting at Park Place, and a barbecue menu from Art of Eating.
Mexican prix fixe at Fresno, new director for South Fork Bakery, health food workshops at the Food Lab, Taco Tuesdays at Navy Beach, catering options from Art of Eating.
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