Dock to Dish, a restaurant-supported fishery cooperative founded in Montauk in 2012, has new owners and a renewed focus on getting fresh-from-the-boat seafood directly into the kitchens of restaurants across the East End and the New York area. And the fact that most of the owners are also fishermen doesn’t hurt.
In Shinnecock, a Return to Matriarchal Roots
With the election of Lisa Goree to the role of tribal chairperson on April 2, there’s a woman in charge of the Shinnecock Indian Nation — traditionally a matriarchal culture — for the first time in centuries.
April 25, 2024
Police & Courts
A smattering of news involving the village's Police and Emergency Services Departments came out of an East Hampton Village Board meeting that was otherwise focused on avoiding the need for residents to call the police for noise complaints in the historic district.
Apr 25, 2024
Squirrels, porch pirates, injured seals, drones, missing White Claws, and more in this week's police logs.
Apr 25, 2024
A 27-year-old East Hampton woman was injured overnight when she crashed her car into a tree on Three Mile Harbor-Hog Creek Road, East Hampton Town police said Thursday morning.
Apr 25, 2024
Half-Million for New Baseball Diamond at Herrick Park
A reconstructed baseball diamond for Herrick Park, complete with dugouts, will be playable by "Memorial Day weekend, give or take," Chris Hines, an account manager with the LandTek Group, told the East Hampton Village Board at Friday's meeting. The board determined that the project will have little environmental impact, and approved $535,720.60 for the work, which will come out of the village's general fund.
Apr 25, 2024
To Catch Storm Runoff Before It Hits the Pond
East Hampton Village is moving forward on a few stormwater-abatement projects, which together could improve the quality of the water in Georgica Pond.
Apr 25, 2024
Government
Former United States Representative George Santos, who on March 7 announced his intention to run as an independent for New York's First Congressional District, which includes the South Fork, has dropped out of the race.
Apr 25, 2024
Starting June 1, the East Hampton Town Trustees, the stewards of beaches, wetlands, and waterways throughout both East Hampton Town and Village, will charge a new $300 fee for events held at the five village beaches, Main Beach, Egypt Beach, Two Mile Hollow, Wiborg’s Beach, and Georgica.
Apr 25, 2024
The East Hampton Town Board is considering prohibiting overnight parking at 31 town lots and road ends and is also weighing new stop signs at a number of busy intersections.
Apr 25, 2024
The stage was set as the East Hampton Village Board prepared to hold a public hearing about proposed legislation to restrict business hours in the historic district, legislation that seemed aimed at discouraging Zero Bond, a private membership club, from leasing or purchasing the Hedges Inn and turning it into a night spot for the ultra-rich.
Apr 25, 2024
Arts
Her Art Has Mushroomed
For the artist and mushroom farmer Agathe Snow, “Art and food are always the same.”
May 1, 2024
The Arts Center at Duck Creek to reopen with solo exhibitions by Natalie Edgar and Francisco Daniel Cabrera.
May 1, 2024
The LongHouse Reserve will host talks with a multidisciplinary artist and an imaginative costume designer.
May 1, 2024
Josh Dayton at Ashawagh, Christopher Engel at Kramoris, dance and photography at Guild Hall, and Eric Firestone in NoHo.
May 1, 2024
Villages
Item of the Week: The Gears of the Gardiner Mill
This photo, taken in 1999 during a tour of the 1804 Gardiner Mill off James Lane, shows the smock-style windmill’s inner gears.
Item of the Week: The Honorable Howell and Halsey, 1774-1816
“Be it remembered” opens each case recorded in this book, which was kept by two Suffolk County justices of the peace, both Bridgehamptoners, over the course of 42 years, from 1774 through 1816.
Fairies Make Mischief at Montauk Nature Preserve
A "fairy gnome village" in the Culloden Point Preserve, undoubtedly erected without a building permit, has become an amusing but also divisive issue for those living on Montauk's lesser-known point.
