East Hampton Village Mayor Jerry Larsen, who is rumored to be mulling a 2026 run for East Hampton Town supervisor, said last week that he had not “made a final decision” and won’t do so until after the election this November. Supervisor Kathee-Burke Gonzalez, a Democrat, is running unopposed on this year’s ballot. When she wins, however, it will be only for a one-year term because of a change in the state election calendar.
Architects’ Legal Fight Delays Senior Center
A lawsuit and a countersuit between the two architects behind R2 Architecture, the venture that designed the East Hampton Town senior citizens center planned on Abraham's Path in Amagansett, have further delayed the long-stalled project and could result in cost increases for the roughly $30 million project.
September 3, 2025
Police & Courts
Complaints about salespeople “attempting to distribute handbills” and “entering private yards and porches” have been appearing in the police logs since June, but the volume of complaints increased in the run-up to Labor Day: a young man, dressed in black with “Ecoshield” branding, often on an electric scooter, traveling door to door trying to get residents to sign up for the extermination service.
Sep 4, 2025
Sag Harbor Village police were called to the American Hotel at around 10 p.m. on Friday, following a report of a group of men “causing a disturbance” in the lobby.
Sep 4, 2025
Most of the charges against a Latham, N.Y., man who appeared in East Hampton Town Justice Court last week stem from an incident on May 25, when he allegedly fled from a town police officer who was conducting a traffic stop on Montauk Highway in Amagansett.
Sep 4, 2025
A Further Assault on Wind Power
Eighteen months after Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that “Today, at long last, we flip the switch and turn on the future,” the Trump administration is systematically switching that future off in favor of the past, in the form of fossil-fuel energy.
Sep 4, 2025
Maidstone Gun Club Lease Renewal May Be Near
The East Hampton Town Board has negotiated “important provisions” in connection with a lease renewal for the Maidstone Gun Club in Wainscott, which has been closed for almost three years and remains the subject of litigation brought by several residents who say bullets fired from the club have hit their houses.
Sep 4, 2025
Government
Last week, four days after 287 members of the Devon Yacht Club met to discuss the club’s long-projected relocation, expansion, and rebuilding, the East Hampton Town Planning Board determined that the ambitious plan will not require a detailed environmental review. The board’s decision came against the backdrop of a yacht club membership in revolt.
Sep 4, 2025
A paramedic who was employed by East Hampton Village has sued the village along with the village’s fire and emergency medical services administrator, Suffolk County, the medical director of the county’s emergency medical services division, and the Montauk Fire District’s medical director following his suspension in the wake of a 2024 call for medical assistance in East Hampton’s Northwest Woods.
Aug 28, 2025
Two competing narratives have emerged from the East Hampton Town Tax Receiver’s Office after four of its five employees abruptly left the department a month ago.
Aug 28, 2025
A group of six neighbors who own properties adjacent to and near 370 and 372 Further Lane in Amagansett have had their eyes on a new hedge that blocks views of those properties. In June they sent a letter to the town board and the town attorney letting them know that if they didn’t do something, they would be held liable.
Aug 28, 2025
Arts
One Photographer’s Many Hats
A jack of many creative trades, East Hampton's Zach Minskoff is a busy photographer, videographer, studio technician, production company owner, and graphic designer.
Sep 4, 2025
Three accomplished designers will share stories about their varied practices in a discussion at the Women’s Art Center of the Hamptons.
Sep 4, 2025
The next talk in LongHouse’s InsiderOutsider series will feature Savannah LeCornu, a self-taught artist from Ketchikan, Alaska.
Sep 4, 2025
The Hamptons Festival of Music's 2025 concert series will feature three programs of orchestral music by Prokofiev, Barber, Mozart, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Cimarosa, Berlioz, and Beethoven.
Sep 4, 2025
Villages
Royalty Rides Into Horse Show on a Mission
Her Royal Highness Princess Margarita de Bourbon de Parme of the Netherlands was at the Hampton Classic Horse Show on Friday to learn all she could about American forward-style riding in an effort to popularize the hunter-jumper technique in Europe.
Kid Finds Humongous Oyster
It almost looked like a dinner plate, Tim Miller said this week of the oyster his niece, Adelynn O’Shea, found while the family was boating near Three Mile Harbor.
Just Plane Fun Day Is Back
The East Hampton Aviation Association will hold its sixth Just Plane Fun Day at East Hampton Town Airport on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
