“We want folks to know that we’re listening, and we want to work with the community to improve the system,” East Hampton Town Supervisor Kathee Burke-Gonzalez said at a town board work session last week, in a discussion about ways to efficiently process building permits.
Hailing Larry Penny, ‘Mr. Natural’
A host of environmental organizations will come together on Sunday at LTV Studios to celebrate the life and work of Larry Penny, former director of the town’s Natural Resources Department and author of The Star’s “Nature Notes” column.
October 23, 2025
Police & Courts
A dog had been barking on and off in a fenced-in backyard for four days, a Springs-Fireplace Road neighbor reported on the night of Oct.15, adding that the house appeared to be empty and abandoned. Police went to the property and found a large black-and-white husky, “whimpering and shivering.”
Oct 23, 2025
Town police made two similar felony-level arrests for drunken driving last week, one on Main Street in Montauk and the other in East Hampton.
Oct 23, 2025
East Hampton Town police have ended a search for a 61-year-old woman who went missing Tuesday night from her family’s house on Manor Lane in Springs. This is a developing story.
Oct 23, 2025
Dredging, Dune Work to Begin in Montauk
The East Hampton Town Board reported that work was imminent on two long-awaited projects in Montauk: the Ditch Plain dune reconstruction and the dredging of the Lake Montauk Inlet.
Oct 23, 2025
Prefab Houses Hold Promise
It’s been nearly a year since East Hampton Town asked builders to submit proposals to design and build houses for the affordable housing subdivision called Cantwell Court. All the estimates they got back were too expensive.
Oct 23, 2025
Government
From the Building Department to the senior center, contrasts were drawn between the town board’s Cate Rogers and Ian Calder-Piedmonte, incumbent Democrats, and J.P. Foster, their Republican challenger.
Oct 23, 2025
Monday’s Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee meeting saw an appeal for support from a resident of Further Lane whose new neighbor at number 370 has planted a double hedge along the lane, blocking an ocean vista. ACAC members were sympathetic.
Oct 23, 2025
The opening of scallop season in state waters is Nov. 3. In town trustee waters the date is Nov. 9. But the harvest may not be very good.
Oct 23, 2025
In Suffolk County, early voting runs from Saturday to Nov. 2, locally at Windmill Village on Accabonac Road.
Oct 23, 2025
Arts
‘Huge Doers and Big Dreamers’
Steven and William Ladd's 25-year artistic collaboration has led to exhibitions and commissions throughout the United States and a massive project for the Kennedy Center on the country's 250th anniversary. On Saturday, they'll be at LongHouse.
Oct 23, 2025
The Hamptons International Film Festival's awards for films in competition went to "The President's Cake," a narrative feature set in Iraq, and "To the West, in Zapata," a documentary feature shot in Cuba.
Oct 23, 2025
This weekend at Bay Street Theater will feature "All Ghosts on Deck," which is a new comedy from the East End Special Players, the Ha Ha Hamptons Comedy Tour, and the film "Gods and Monsters."
Oct 23, 2025
LTV Studios will host live concerts by Paige Patterson, whose playlist ranges from Sinatra to Santana, and Inda Eaton, a singer-songwriter whose shows blend music, storytelling, and reflection.
Oct 23, 2025
Villages
On Bridging Our Divisions: A Healing Forum
The public has been invited to “Times That Try Our Souls — Let the Healing Begin,” which will bring together leaders from Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, on Sunday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork in Bridgehampton.
A Historian in His Apple Orchard
Research and memories are the underpinnings of Robert Hefner's bacykard orchard in Amagansett.
Item of the Week: The Not-So-Haunted House of Huntting Lane
This turn-of-the-20th-century photo shows the James Huntting house in the village in its original majesty, ghosts or no.
