Stepping into the new Sagaponack General Store, which reopened yesterday after being closed since 2020, is a sweet experience, and not just because there’s a soft-serve ice cream station on the left and what promises to be the biggest penny candy selection on the South Fork on your right, but because it’s like seeing an old friend who, after some struggle, made it big. Really, really big.
Helen S. Rattray, Longtime Star Editor and Publisher, Dies at 90
Helen S. Rattray, the longtime editor and publisher of The East Hampton Star, died early Wednesday morning at Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenport.
April 16, 2025
Police & Courts
Has a shocking crime that took place in East Hampton Village in 1955 finally been solved? Mayor Jerry Larsen believes it has, and he isn’t alone.
Apr 17, 2025
Sag Harbor Village police have received several reports of “swatting” calls, falsely reporting an emergency, from Main Street businesses recently, three involving Sag Pizza and another, last week, involving Apple Bank.
Apr 17, 2025
East Hampton Village’s new Flock license-plate reader cameras are having an immediate effect here. Out of 18 arrests reported by village police in the last two weeks, 14 were made with the assistance of the cameras.
Apr 17, 2025
Critics Fear a Settlement in Airport Suit
Two themes were apparent when over half a dozen people turned up at an East Hampton Town Board meeting this week: consternation that the town would soon settle a lawsuit brought after the board attempted to close the airport in 2022 and immediately reopen it with restrictions, and threats that a settlement would ultimately hurt the board members at the ballot box.
Apr 17, 2025
Gun Club Opponents Want to Be Heard
East Hampton Town and the Maidstone Gun Club in Wainscott, which has been shuttered since August 2022, may be close to renewing a lease for the 97-acre property despite litigation brought by several residents who say that errant bullets fired from the private club have hit their houses, posing a threat to their very lives.
Apr 17, 2025
Government
Several East Hampton Town Trustees have questioned the expansion of an oyster restoration effort and an accompanying reef in Georgica Pond, as requested by Stony Brook University scientists. “I don’t want to be a board that drastically changed that entire closed ecosystem,” the presiding officer said.
Apr 17, 2025
In the wake of the March 8 and 9 brush fires in the Pine Barrens around Westhampton Beach, Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine has announced the county’s first southern pine beetle symposium, which happens on Wednesday from 9 a.m. to noon at Suffolk Community College’s Riverhead campus.
Apr 17, 2025
A plan to replace a large asphalt parking area, remove invasive species, and create bio-retention areas that could help filter and capture stormwater runoff before it reaches Lake Montauk moved ahead at the April 8 meeting of the East Hampton Town Board. The West Lake boat ramp, the project target, is large, denuded of vegetation, and its asphalt and hard-packed soil is on a pitch that sends it directly into the lake.
Apr 17, 2025
A balloon, three feet in diameter, hovering exactly 150 feet above the location of a proposed communications tower behind the Springs Firehouse on April 21 will be part of a test that will allow people to assess the visual impact of a proposed 150-foot tower from many vantage points. The new tower would replace the one that is already there.
Apr 10, 2025
Arts
Shari Goddard Shambaugh: ‘Pulled’ to Painting
Shari Goddard Shambaugh is a self-taught painter whose passion for nature is reflected in her landscapes and floral paintings.
Apr 17, 2025
In a new adaptation of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" from the National Theatre Live series, Andrew Scott plays all eight characters in a production that offers "a new way of seeing into the heart" of the play.
Apr 17, 2025
The Parrish's new exhibition, "Shirin Neshat: Born of Fire," is a survey of groundbreaking work by the renowned Iranian-born artist, who illuminates what it means to exist between two cultures.
Apr 17, 2025
The Church in Sag Harbor will host Laurie Anderson for its benefit, a beading workshop led by a Shinnecock artist, and a Native painter reflecting on his work.
Apr 17, 2025
Villages
Has a Horrific 1955 Crime Finally Been Solved?
Has a shocking crime that took place in East Hampton Village in 1955 finally been solved? Mayor Jerry Larsen believes it has, and he isn’t alone.
Apiarists Reel From Honeybee Apocalypse
A massive die-off of honeybees this winter marks “the first time in history that professionals lost more bees than hobbyists,” one beekeeper said. Bee experts are working to identify the cause of unprecedented losses that will be the biggest to hit honeybee colonies in U.S. history.
Second House Restoration Done at Last
After being closed to the public for more than a decade and with a yearslong renovation project deemed complete, Second House in Montauk, originally built in 1746 and replaced in 1797 following a fire, will soon reopen to the public.
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