Last week, a notice on the East Hampton Town website alerted visitors that “To better serve our residents, the Building Department office will be closed to the public on Wednesdays.” Department employees will still be at work behind the closed doors, however, reviewing and processing applications to attack a growing backlog.
HIFF 2025: The First Reveal
The 33rd Hamptons International Film Festival has announced its opening film, "Eternity," with Elizabeth Olsen, as well as new films from Richard Linklater, Bill Condon, and Eva Victor.
August 28, 2025
Police & Courts
Alexandr Dyatchin, a 39-year-old Serbian national who was arrested last August for his involvement in a drug trafficking operation between Brooklyn and East Hampton, was sentenced last week to five years in prison, followed by five years of post-release supervision, by Supreme Court Justice John Collins in Riverhead.
Aug 28, 2025
Darius Petty, who last year was accused of kidnapping and robbing three young men at gunpoint in the parking lot of the East Hampton Senior Center, and was sentenced in June to three years in prison, was released from custody in July for a monthlong “grace period” before his incarceration. On Tuesday, Suffolk Supreme Court Justice Timothy P. Mazzei agreed to extend the time for an additional month.
Aug 28, 2025
After leaving his house early Saturday, a Montauk man found a stranger asleep in his guest room when he returned late that afternoon. The intruder told police he was “unsure how, when, or why” he’d got there, adding that he’d been drinking the night before.
Aug 28, 2025
Paramedic Files Suit After Suspension
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
Four Leave Tax Receiver’s Office
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
Government
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
Jeff Miller, the Republican candidate for East Hampton Town clerk, on Friday retired from his position as heavy-equipment operator at the East Hampton Village Department of Public Works, where he spent 36 years.
Aug 28, 2025
The East Hampton Village Board intends to extend the hours in which parking at two of its beaches is limited to residents and nonresidents who buy a beach parking permit.
Aug 28, 2025
Faithful followers of government and school board meetings on LTV’s government and education channel in East Hampton Town or fans of LTV’s public access shows like “Hello Hello,” “Two Jews Making Food,” or “Meet the Mayor” may have been bewildered this week to find the programming suddenly gone from Altice/Optimum’s Channels 20 and 22.
Aug 28, 2025
Arts
HIFF 2025: The First Reveal
The 33rd Hamptons International Film Festival has announced its opening film, "Eternity," with Elizabeth Olsen, as well as new films from Richard Linklater, Bill Condon, and Eva Victor.
Aug 28, 2025
One hundred remarkable artworks from the collection of Lana Jokel, a documentary filmmaker and friend of contemporary artists, are on public view for the first time at the Bridgehampton Museum’s Nathaniel Rogers House.
Aug 28, 2025
Two music writers and fans ponder why, at the current moment of political divisiveness, protest songs have yet to penetrate the mainstream.
Aug 28, 2025
"Middletown," next up in the HamptonsFilm SummerDocs series, tells the story of how in the 1990s a high school English teacher and his students exposed toxic dumping in New York's Orange County.
Aug 28, 2025
Villages
The Stuff of Dreams at the Surf Lodge
To book a beach table this Saturday, during Labor Day weekend, groups must spend a minimum of $5,000. A table on the deck this weekend costs a minimum of $10,000. Along with good music, a great view, and a beautiful crowd, that might be part of the appeal.
Another Iconic House at Risk of Demolition
Julian and Barbara Neski’s 1964 Chalif House on Terbell Lane in East Hampton has recently come on the market for $11 million-plus. The house is historically important, but given the times, the value of a one-acre plot, and its location in the village’s estate section, it’s likely to be torn down.
Folk Art Stair Runner Installed at Village Hall
Two of Edith Parsons’s midcentury hooked rugs, one depicting scenes of East Hampton and another showing a map of Long Island, can now be seen at Village Hall and Home, Sweet Home, following her daughter’s donation.
