A 76-year-old Montauk man was sentenced to five days in county jail, followed by three years of probation, for spray-painting swastikas and antisemitic phrases around the hamlet in late 2023.
Amagansett Hit-and-Run Caught on Camera
“You could actually hear the screams through town,” said a business owner and Amagansett Fire Department volunteer who was one of the first to come to the aid of the injured woman.
November 20, 2025
Police & Courts
“A bald man with a briefcase” walked through his property on Friday afternoon, a Sag Harbor resident told police. The man showed up on his doorbell camera, said the homeowner, walking across the front lawn and then out of frame toward his backyard gate.
Nov 20, 2025
Two pedestrians were injured in a low-speed collision outside the Bay Street Theater on Saturday night.
Nov 20, 2025
Update: A female pedestrian was seriously injured in a hit-and-run accident on Main Street in Amagansett Friday afternoon. The subsequent investigation closed the road for hours.
Nov 15, 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’s 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
The East Hampton Town attorney has concluded that a complaint by neighbors of 370 and 372 Further Lane in Amagansett, where the properties’ new owners have planted a hedge and trees in an easement, is without merit as the plantings do not violate easements created in 1989 and respected until recently.
Nov 13, 2025
In 2022, Mary Mackey applied through the East Hampton Town Home Improvement Program to fix some issues at her house. The town-selected contractor still hasn’t finished the work, what has been done has been deemed “shoddy” by the town’s licensing review board, and the cost to fix what’s been done has ballooned.
Nov 13, 2025
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
Arts
Show Us Your Life: A Collaboration
Warren Strugatch, a writer and journalist, talks about working with Hans Van de Bovenkamp to create the Dutch-born sculptor's memoir.
Nov 20, 2025
An artist-led tour of its current exhibition, a one-act dance-theater piece, and a conversation between two writers about memoir and biography will animate The Church.
Nov 20, 2025
The East Hampton Historical Society's annual House and Garden Tour will open the doors to five East Hampton properties ranging from the 19th century to the 21st.
Nov 20, 2025
Musicians, writers, visual artists, comedians, and actors will join forces at the Masonic Temple to protest threats to free expression and dissent that are sweeping the nation.
Nov 20, 2025
Villages
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.
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 to the British.
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.
