With the 2025 election in the rearview mirror, East Hampton Village Mayor Jerry Larsen has offiically announced plans to challenge newly re-elected Supervisor Kathee Burke-Gonzalez for the Democratic nomination in 2026.
Simon Kirke Enters Rock Hall of Fame
The drummer and composer, who lives in Montauk, is a founding member of Bad Company, which joined the 2025 Hall of Fame inductees Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker, the White Stripes, Cyndi Lauper, OutKast, and Soundgarden.
November 13, 2025
Police & Courts
Responding Friday night to a report of a structure fire on Further Lane, an officer spoke with the homeowner, who explained that he’d left a piece of pie in the microwave for too long.
Nov 13, 2025
A Nissan sedan collided with a Range Rover on Amagansett’s Main Street, and in Springs it was a BMW and a Buick.
Nov 13, 2025
An “older white man wearing a green hoodie and jeans” was wandering around his backyard, an Abraham’s Path resident reported Saturday. While an officer was en route, the resident called back to say that the man was a gardener.
Nov 6, 2025
Epstein to Wolff: Trump ‘Knew About the Girls’
New in the scandal that won’t go away: President Trump knew about the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of girls, according to email exchanges between Epstein and Michael Wolff, the Amagansett author and journalist profiled in The Star last week.
Nov 13, 2025
New Lights Near for Amagansett Main Street
The plan calls for 46 to 50 “historical style” light fixtures such as those installed in Sag Harbor, spaced approximately 100 feet apart on either side of Main Street from Windmill Lane to Meeting House Lane. The existing “cobra head” lights affixed to metal poles would be removed.
Nov 13, 2025
Government
Cornell Cooperative Extension will conduct a bottom trawl survey from Smith Point Inlet, in Brookhaven Town, to Montauk Point. It is scheduled to begin on Monday and continue through Nov. 23.
Nov 13, 2025
The East Hampton Town Board held two public hearings on its 2026 preliminary budget last week: one to allow it to pierce the state-mandated 2-percent cap on tax levy increases, and the other on the details of the budget itself.
Nov 13, 2025
The East Hampton Town Building Department, which cut its hours in August, closing to the public on Wednesdays to attack a backlog of applications, announced another change. Building inspectors are now available at the counter and by phone from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Monday through Friday, including Wednesdays.
Nov 13, 2025
“With this new, even-year election law, I am going to start campaigning for 2026, starting tomorrow,” East Hampton Town Supervisor Kathee Burke-Gonzalez told her supporters on election night, after winning an uncontested race.
Nov 7, 2025
Arts
Simon Kirke Enters Rock Hall of Fame
The drummer and composer, who lives in Montauk, is a founding member of Bad Company, which joined the 2025 Hall of Fame inductees Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker, the White Stripes, Cyndi Lauper, OutKast, and Soundgarden.
Nov 13, 2025
"Fahrenheit 451" at Sag Harbor's Bay Street Theater, adapted by Ray Bradbury from his 1953 novel, depicts a future in which books have been banned and firemen burn any that are found.
Nov 13, 2025
The Parrish Art Museum has launched a curatorial partnership with the FLAG Art Foundation that will yield three exhibitions annually, starting in March with an Ellsworth Kelly show.
Nov 13, 2025
The Church in Sag Harbor will host Cas Holman, whose book "Playful" urges play in adults' lives, Margaret Garrett, a former dancer turned visual artist, and a casual drawing meetup.
Nov 13, 2025
Villages
Item of the Week: Payment by the Yard, 1794
This weaver’s account book was kept by Benjamin Parsons, who began recording business transactions in 1794. His father was one of 49 weavers in East Hampton who signed the 1778 Loyalty Oath the British.
Recognizing Grossman’s Half-Century of Activism
Karl Grossman, an author and educator who has tirelessly advocated for the environment and journalism, and against nukes, will be honored on Saturday at the Sag Harbor Cinema in a fund-raiser hosted by Fred Thiele.
Stepping Up for Jamaica in Hurricane Melissa’s Wake
East Hampton Town’s Jamaican population has been focused on the news and social media since Melissa struck as a Category 5 storm last week, making landfall with winds up to 185 miles per hour.
