“We recognize that our earlier understanding was incorrect,” Patrick Derenze, the town’s information officer, said of the Building Department’s Richard Normoyle. “We acted to address the issue and ensure compliance with state requirements.”
D.E.C. Pinpoints Fire Suppression as Source of Groundwater Contamination
Investigation blames chemical response to 2023 fire at Cove Hollow Road energy center, and not battery storage, for tainted drinking water wells nearby.
September 11, 2026
Revisiting the 9/11 Terror 25 Years Later
Twenty-five years on, the terrible events of that day remain seared into the memories of those who experienced it, whether up close in Manhattan or more than 100 miles away in East Hampton Town, on what was shaping up to be a perfect late-summer day.
September 10, 2026
Police & Courts
On Georgica Beach on Saturday morning, multiple chairs and tiki torches set up around a smoldering, unattended fire between the first and second jetties caused some alarm.
Sep 10, 2026
A trailer reported missing in Southampton in July popped up in East Hampton on Aug. 31, resulting in the arrest of the man towing it.
Sep 10, 2026
Supreme Court Blocks Mail Voting Restrictions
Seven weeks before the Nov. 3 midterm elections and with three states having already mailed ballots to voters, the Supreme Court on Monday blocked the Trump administration’s effort to restrict voting by mail.
Sep 17, 2026
Bamboo, We’re Done With You!
“We’re saying, ‘All right, no more bamboo,’ ” the East Hampton Town attorney said as the town board discussed draft legislation that would prohibit planting of the fast-growing invasive.
Sep 10, 2026
Government
Last week, Representative Nick LaLota joined his Republican colleagues in a mostly party-line vote to extend the postponement of protections for the North Atlantic right whale until 2035.
Sep 10, 2026
The Supreme Court is expected to rule imminently on the legality of the Trump administration’s effort to restrict voting by mail, a plan that as of yesterday remained in limbo due to lower court rulings. Should the Supreme Court side with the administration, critics say, massive voter disenfranchisement is the likely outcome.
Sep 10, 2026
David Browne, who served as the chief fire marshal for East Hampton Town from December 2010 until this year, has been appointed East Hampton Village’s chief fire marshal.
Sep 10, 2026
With Election Day fewer than eight weeks away, the League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, Shelter Island, and the North Fork will cover the East End with voter information tables this month and has issued a schedule of debates.
Sep 10, 2026
Arts
HIFF 2026: The Full Lineup
The Hamptons International Film Festival has announced its full schedule of films and events, including in-person conversations with Amanda Seyfried, John Turturro, Jesse Eisenberg, and Ron Howard.
Sep 17, 2026
A psychological thriller with an absurdist bent about two men trapped in a room and two women who oversee their bizarre punishment will have four performances at LTV.
Sep 17, 2026
“Nancy Atlas: The Howl” will bring a cavalcade of notable musicians to Bay Street for a performance that will benefit music programming at Pierson Middle/High School.
Sep 17, 2026
A discussion on how women are shaping the future of music and a Japanese tea ceremony are coming to LongHouse Reserve.
Sep 17, 2026
Villages
Item of the Week: Halsey’s Horse-Drawn Thresher
This photo from The Star’s archive shows a two-horse-powered threshing machine at the Water Mill farm of Charles E. Halsey in 1897. On Saturday, a panel discussion, “Returning to Our Roots: East Hampton’s New Farms,” comes to the library.
A Town Lifeguard Signs Off at 84
Just shy of his 85th birthday, Dick Monahan, a lifeguard at Kirk Park in Montauk, will hang up his whistle at the end of this season.
‘Were It Not for September 11’
Were it not for Sept. 11, 2001, you’d not be reading these words. I’d still be living in the city and might never have become a writer.
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Food
News for Foodies 09.17.26
A panel discussion on East Hampton’s new farms, Oktoberfest at Rowdy Hall, paella dinners at the fish farm, and fall specials at Bell and Anchor.
Sep 17, 2026
News for Foodies 09.10.26
Almond restaurant announces perks of its Dinner and Provisions Club as well as fall specials, and the North Fork Foodie Tour will feature farms and vineyards spread across 30 miles.
Sep 10, 2026
Tomato Tasters Rate 2026 Crop
The annual Great Tomato Taste-Off at Quail Hill Farm brought some 100 tasters to the property to taste and rate 44 varieties at their seasonal peak.
Sep 3, 2026