Rain on Thursday notwithstanding, an unusually dry fall season persists statewide, raising concerns about fire and impact on crops. Last month, the county had only .23 inches of rainfall, just off the record low for October precipitation, and even with rain on Thursday, more than 99 percent of the county was considered to be in "severe drought."
Candemir’s Pilgrimage to Lift an Iceland Stone
Cristian Candemir, a 2012 East Hampton High School graduate who's been angling for the unofficial title of “World’s Strongest Barista,” was back in action recently to take a shot at lifting a replica of Iceland’s 410-pound Husafell stone. It's an ancient tradition dating to the time of the Vikings.
November 21, 2024
Police & Courts
East Hampton and Amagansett firefighters volunteered to head north last week to help fight a 5,000-acre wildfire in Orange County, N.Y., not once but twice, battling unfamiliar terrain to do so. “They fight fires completely differently than we do when we have a brush fire,” the Amagansett chief said.
Nov 21, 2024
“It could have gone worse. We’re lucky that I have officers here that weren’t shot,” said Police Chief Jeff Erickson at Friday’s East Hampton Village Board meeting. Chief Erickson was recognizing Sgt. Wayne Gauger and Officers John Clark and Robbie Greene for a traffic stop on Aug. 31 that turned into a scuffle and the eventual confiscation of an illegal gun.
Nov 21, 2024
A Three Mile Harbor Drive resident reported an online dating scam on the afternoon of Nov. 16. Somehow, said the 80-year-old man, a person on the dating platform had gotten his phone number and demanded $2,000 from him, threatening to tell his family he was using the site if he did not comply. Police told the man to block the number.
Nov 21, 2024
East Hampton Senior Center Is a Go
The East Hampton Town Board formally decided Tuesday that a proposed senior citizens center on a seven-acre parcel at 403 Abraham’s Path in Amagansett would have little environmental impact and did not need a lengthy environmental review.
Nov 21, 2024
Town to Cut Maximum House Size in Half
The East Hampton Town Board dropped a surprise into another lengthy discussion of proposed zoning code amendments in the wake of a well-attended public hearing on Nov. 7. The board agreed on most amendments as written; however, in a straw poll, four members voted against a measure that would include a portion of basements in the gross floor calculation of residences.
Nov 21, 2024
Government
With a large inflatable rat in tow, a group from the Laborers Local 66 union has been stationed this week outside the Montauk Playhouse Community Center, where new aquatic and cultural centers are under construction, with signs calling out the architects and general contractors on the project.
Nov 21, 2024
Debate over the addition of an area for small dogs at the Springs Park continued this week as the park committee met to discuss recommended changes that also include removal of invasive species.
Nov 21, 2024
Design work has yet to begin on a new lighting plan for downtown Amagansett, where large trees line Main Street and sometimes block light, but the East Hampton Town Board appeared happy Tuesday with a preliminary study by L.K. McLean Associates, the project engineers.
Nov 21, 2024
The westernmost grass field at the Stephen Hand’s Path Recreational Facility will be converted to a multiuse artificial turf field in January, with work to be completed possibly by Memorial Day, depending on weather. Councilman David Lys and Matt Jedlicka, an engineer at L.K. McLean Associates, gave a presentation on the project to the town board at a meeting on Tuesday.
Nov 21, 2024
Arts
No Sailor: At Home in Many Ports
No Sailor, a band that began in Slovenia, recorded in Scotland, and has divisions in Pennsylvania, New York City, and the East End, just debuted its latest single at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett.
Nov 21, 2024
"Think Like a Filmmaker" at the Sag Harbor Cinema is an exhibition of an acclaimed filmmaker's repurposed vintage filmmaking equipment.
Nov 21, 2024
For Bay Street's production of "A Streetcar Named Desire," the actors shine in a show that is physically, mentally, and emotionally taxing.
Nov 21, 2024
Reflections in Music at The Church in Sag Harbor will present a program of classical compositions inspired in part by the blues.
Nov 21, 2024
Villages
Hamptons Pride Hosts Quilt Display for AIDS Day at Presbyterian Church
“One of the things that I struggle with is people saying the AIDS crisis is a thing of the past, as if the time to remember is something for the past,” said Tom House, the founder of Hamptons Pride, which is bringing quilts from the National AIDS Memorial to the East Hampton Presbyterian Church next week.
A Group Soup Benefit Project
Two dozen women from across the South Fork gathered Monday night at Grace Presbyterian Church in Water Mill to kick off a season of soup-making in which the goal is to prepare 1,000 quarts of hearty, homemade soup for people facing food insecurity and homelessness.
Annual Water Quality Report: A Blue-Green Algae Record
The South Fork had more harmful blue-green algae blooms this year than ever before, researchers at Stony Brook University recently announced as part of an annual water quality report.
