When the 2025 International Surf Rescue Challenge gets going in New Zealand this week, a quarter of the United States Lifesaving Association Youth National Team will hail from the South Fork.
First Alpha-Gal Death Reported
A death has been linked to the alpha-gal meat allergy that is spread by ticks, primarily the lone star tick. According to researchers in Virginia, in the summer of 2024 a healthy 47-year-old man from New Jersey died four hours after consuming beef, likely unaware he had contracted the allergy.
November 20, 2025
Police & Courts
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.
Nov 20, 2025
“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.
Nov 20, 2025
“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
Sag Harbor Votes to Curb Plastics
With the enthusiastic urging of members of the Surfrider Foundation, the Sag Harbor Village Board unanimously voted to adopt “Skip the Stuff” legislation regulating single-use plastics.
Nov 20, 2025
Maidstone Park Play Area Advances
A nearly 10-year effort to upgrade a play area at Maidstone Park in Springs came closer to completion earlier this month. The town has budgeted $190,000 for a renovation meant to be especially useful to younger children and those with disabilities.
Nov 20, 2025
Government
The East Hampton Town Board approved a resolution to pay $14,300 to its wireless consultant CityScape to develop a design guide for “small-cell” wireless facilities within the town’s right of way.
Nov 20, 2025
The East Hampton Town Trustees have taken an initial step toward potentially opening the east channel of Napeague Harbor, which began to close early in this century and has been completely closed since 2012.
Nov 20, 2025
Because of changes to the draft legislation made in the wake of public comment at a hearing on legislation that would allow parcels as small as half an acre to be designated affordable housing overlay districts, the proposed legislation has been adjusted and will require a new hearing.
Nov 20, 2025
Scott Wilson, East Hampton Town’s director of land acquisition and management, was so happy with the three farmers who responded to a request in May for proposals to farm the old Sherrill Dairy property between Springs-Fireplace and Accabonac Roads that he decided to recommend all three to the town board.
Nov 20, 2025
Arts
Doc Fest’s Schedule Is ‘Electric’
Hamptons Doc Fest will show 33 documentary films over eight days at the Sag Harbor Cinema, Bay Street Theater, and, for the first time, the Southampton Playhouse.
Nov 27, 2025
Center Stage at the Southampton Arts Center will present staged readings of two of Truman Capote's holiday stories.
Nov 27, 2025
The Holiday Makers Market at The Church in Sag Harbor will have a pop-up print sale, book signings, and offerings from more than 20 local vendors.
Nov 27, 2025
The film "Taking Venice," coming to Guild Hall, investigates the purported rigging of the 1964 Venice Biennale Grand Prize competition to favor the American entry.
Nov 27, 2025
Villages
Anti-ICE Rally at Hook Mill
A rally to support immigrants, demand due process, and urge a strong stance by government representatives and other civil servants against federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions will happen Friday from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the Hook Mill in East Hampton Village.
Item of the Week: The 1955 L.V.I.S. Cookbook
This is a cookbook perfect for those interested in trying a new recipe while still holding onto traditions.
A Fall Wedding for Todd and Bennett
Ashleigh Katharine Bennett and Thomas Gerard Todd IV were married on Oct. 11 at the Vineyards at Aquebogue.
