“What’s happening in California is something that can happen every day here in New York,” said Chuck Hamilton, the founder of the New York Wildfire Incident Management Academy. The East End has what he called an “urban interface” — also present in Southern California — which means that houses touch right up against forested areas ripe with fuel.
Sale in Works at East Hampton’s Hedges Inn
The Hedges Inn, now owned by John Cumming, is in contract to be sold to Andrew and Sarah Wetenhall, marking an end to a year of drama that saw the 1873 inn, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, actively courted by Scott Sartiano and his celebrity hangout, Zero Bond.
January 23, 2025
Police & Courts
On Sunday evening, the assistant manager of Sportime told police he’d seen two drunken men harassing the snack stand attendant and asked them to leave, which they did, briefly, but then ran back in and punched him.
Jan 23, 2025
Southampton Town police charged a Bay Shore woman with two felonies last Thursday, saying, first, that she’d left the scene of an accident on Sagg Main Street in Sagaponack, and second, after being located, was discovered to be in possession of “a “quantity of illegal drugs and paraphernalia.”
Jan 23, 2025
Andrey Trigubovich, named the new chief of East Hampton Volunteer Ocean Rescue, has been a member of the group since 2009, and has served as a lieutenant and a first assistant chief. He takes over the top post from Barnaby Friedman, who served as chief for three terms.
Jan 16, 2025
Lee Zeldin Takes a Turn in the Senate Hot Seat
President Trump’s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency comes in for praise and skepticism in a Senate confirmation hearing.
Jan 23, 2025
Schiavoni Sworn in as Assemblyman
Tommy John Schiavoni was sworn in as the new assemblyman for the First District of New York on Friday night in Sag Harbor, with his wife, acting Suffolk County Supreme Court Justice Andrea Harum Schiavoni, administering the oath of office. He became only the fourth person to hold that post since 1969.
Jan 23, 2025
Government
After a difficult debate that ended in compromise, the East Hampton Town Board agreed at its work session Tuesday to bring an updated formula that links house size and lot size to a public hearing in early March. The board settled on a maximum house size of 7 percent of lot area plus 1,500 square feet. Right now, the formula is set at 10 percent of lot area plus 1,600 square feet.
Jan 23, 2025
At its first meeting of the year, the East Hampton Town Planning Board, under the new chairmanship of Ed Krug, chose not to pursue an Article 78 lawsuit against the town board for passing a resolution to exempt the new senior citizens center from town planning and zoning regulations.
Jan 23, 2025
Compromise proved elusive again for the Paramount Development Group and the East Hampton Town Architectural Review Board on Dec. 12, a month after the A.R.B.’s unanimous denial of Paramount’s application to build a residence at 84 Wainscott Hollow Road in Wainscott. Despite some changes to the plans, the board again denied the application to build a 7,374-square-foot house in place of the one there now.
Jan 16, 2025
The East Hampton Town Board discussed myriad topics related to Montauk, from boat slips to beach parking to traffic and drainage along Fort Pond.
Jan 16, 2025
Arts
A Painting Comes Home to Springs
A painting by the late Ralph Carpentier, a well-known landscape painter here who died in 2016, is back in the hamlet where he created it and on display at the Springs Library.
Jan 23, 2025
Susan Stroman, a multiple award-winning director and choreographer, has been named president of Guild Hall's Academy of the Arts, an assemblage of some 250 internationally recognized artists.
Jan 23, 2025
Hamptons Pride and Bay Street Theater have teamed up for the Hamptons Pride Film Series, which will launch with "Pride," a 2014 British historical comedy-drama.
Jan 23, 2025
"Folkie Fest: East Meets West" will bring five East End singer-songwriters working in the folk and country traditions to LTV Studios.
Jan 23, 2025
Villages
A Painting Comes Home to Springs
A painting by the late Ralph Carpentier, a well-known landscape painter here who died in 2016, is back in the hamlet where he created it and on display at the Springs Library.
An Interfaith Call to Reject Indifference
Calvary Baptist Church and St. Luke’s Episcopal Church welcomed faith leaders and parishioners from Bridghampton to Montauk on Sunday for this year’s interfaith celebration of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — his life, his teachings, his message.
Item of the Week: Dering Says Thanks for the Money
In 1822 Henry Packer Dering, the Sag Harbor customs collector, issued this “acknowledgement” that Benjamin Lord, “an American seaman,” had paid “into this office six months Hospital Money.”
Sports
Jan 23, 2025
