The United States House of Representatives passed President Trump's spending bill early Thursday, sending it along to the Senate. In it is a quadrupling of the cap on the State and Local Tax deduction, known colloquially as the SALT deduction, which Representative Nick LaLota said in a press release early Thursday is "a significant win for Long Island taxpayers."
New East Hampton Emergency Department Is Open
On the eve of Memorial Day weekend, the Stony Brook East Hampton Emergency Department has opened at 400 Pantigo Place. It will operate 24 hours a day, seven day a week, 365 days a year, including holidays.
May 22, 2025
Police & Courts
After an extensive search by East Hampton Town police drones, a Suffolk County police helicopter, and Southampton Town and Suffolk County K-9 units that began Friday evening, a missing 88-year-old East Hampton man was found Saturday afternoon by a town police sergeant operating a drone.
May 24, 2025
After stopping a 2011 Cadillac CTS on East Hampton's Main Street shortly after 4 on Friday morning because of "multiple vehicle and traffic law violations," town police reportedly found a passenger sitting in the back seat with a loaded .45-caliber handgun.
May 23, 2025
East Hampton Village accepted a SaveStation — a public-access automatic external defibrillator — on Tuesday afternoon, following donations from the Tintle family to the Louis J. Acompora Memorial Foundation. The station, which resembles a huge fire alarm, is now hanging at the Reutershan parking lot restrooms, next to the softball field at Herrick Park.
May 22, 2025
Montauk Playhouse Renovations Are Almost Done
“This is a town project that’s on time and under budget,” said Maureen Cahill, a board member of the Montauk Community Playhouse Foundation, where a new aquatic and cultural center is on track to open before summer’s end. “It’s a really good model of town, state, and private funding that put this together. Without those three it doesn’t work.”
May 22, 2025
Empire Wind 1 Can Now Proceed
The whiplash resulting from policies announced and quickly reversed by the Trump administration continued this week with the surprise announcement that construction of the Empire Wind 1 offshore wind farm, which was halted last month by a stop-work order issued by the secretary of the Department of the Interior, could resume.
May 22, 2025
Government
Nearly 200 “small cell” towers, each 42 feet tall, will be deployed across East Hampton Town, with over 150 slotted for Northwest Woods and Springs alone. The large majority, 129, could be operational by the end of the year.
May 22, 2025
Trevor Darrell has been appointed East Hampton Town’s prosecutor, and Brittany Toledano has been hired as deputy town attorney, both effective as of Monday, according to a statement issued from Town Hall this week.
May 22, 2025
At an otherwise quiet East Hampton Town Board meeting, a decision about a special permit for surfing lessons in Montauk drew the most attention.
May 22, 2025
The East Hampton Town Litter Action Committee offered several recommendations for how littering could be reduced: an anti-litter campaign, a code amendment that would strengthen rental registry trash-hauling requirements, engaging with the State Department of Transportation about improving litter removal along Route 27, and adding temporary signage, in English and Spanish, near recently cleaned areas and at the town transfer stations.
May 22, 2025
Arts
A ‘Cultural Hub’ in Bridgehampton
Since taking over the reins of the Bridgehampton Museum, Connor Flanagan, with his collections manager, Tim Malyk, has brought the energy and ideas to create a vibrant "cultural hub" for that hamlet.
May 29, 2025
The eighth Battle of the Fantasy Girl Bands will bring a record 10 bands to the Stephen Talkhouse in a rousing benefit for the Neo-Political Cowgirls.
May 29, 2025
The Hampton Theatre Company's production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" features four actors up to the challenge of a bruising evening of emotional turmoil.
May 29, 2025
Bay Street Theater's Title Wave Festival will feature staged readings of four new plays in development, each followed by conversations between the playwright and the audience.
May 29, 2025
Villages
Tom Brady Kicks Off Season With East Hampton Store Opening
Adoring fans flocked to the village Thursday, where Tom Brady cut the ribbon at CardVault by Tom Brady on Newtown Lane and then tossed footballs from a stage in Herrick Park.
Honoring the Fallen for Memorial Day
Memorial Day observances in East Hampton begin on Sunday when members of American Legion Post 419 and the Everit Albert Herter Veterans of Foreign Wars Post will travel by bus to cemeteries from Wainscott to Montauk to pay tribute to buried veterans, with rifle squad ceremonies at each one.
East Hampton’s Downtown Businesses Are Ready
New businesses in the village range from a Rolex at the old Odd Fellows Hall and Tom Brady's sports collectible shop, CardVault, to restaurants, takeout spots, and the newly revamped Hedges Inn.
