The Sag Harbor School District and its superintendent, Jeff Nichols, have been named in a wrongful death lawsuit filed this week by the parents of Cesar Adrian Albarracin Guncay, a sixth grader at Pierson Middle School who drowned in the Lehigh River in Pennsylvania while on a school trip in May.
East Hampton, Pierson, Ross Runners Qualify for States
East Hampton High School will send two of its cross-country stars, Jasper Samuelson and Zoey Falkenhan, to the state championship in Queensbury, N.Y., on Nov. 14.
November 5, 2026
Research Shows Ospreys in Peril
Reproductive success rates of late have been as low as during the DDT years, when osprey populations were decimated, a shocking development for a region that has come to view the rebound of the osprey as an inspiring environmental success story.
November 5, 2026
East Hampton Lawyer Faces Child Pornography Charges
A prominent East Hampton attorney turned himself in Wednesday on 11 felony counts of possession of material containing child sexual performance and was arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court.
November 4, 2026
Police & Courts
In Wainscott, when only one of the two drinks a man ordered from 7-Eleven through DoorDash was delivered, he complained to police. He eventually received both drinks.
Nov 5, 2026
A Sag Harbor man found driving with a learner’s permit and a previous conviction for drunken driving was charged with felony-level D.W.I. last week.
Nov 5, 2026
Michael Wolff v. the First Lady
One year ago, The Star reported on Melania Trump’s threat to sue the author and journalist Michael Wolff for $1 billion if he did not retract and apologize for statements linking her to the late financier and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Here’s an update.
Nov 5, 2026
Questions Loom Over Este Restaurant
The owners of the proposed Este Restaurant, at 666 Montauk Highway in Montauk, are still wrestling with the East Hampton Town Planning Board a year after they received approval for a 39-seat eatery.
Nov 5, 2026
Government
The personal income-tax credit available to volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers in New York State just quadrupled.
Nov 5, 2026
The words “suburban” and “mall-like” may not have been what the owners of the buildings at 2 Main Street and 22 Long Island Avenue had in mind when they brought redevelopment plans to the Sag Harbor Village Planning Board last week.
Nov 5, 2026
A $1 million stormwater mitigation project at the Montauk Highway rest stop on the northern edge of Georgica Pond is imminent.
Nov 5, 2026
Days before Tuesday’s midterm elections, Democrats were cautiously hopeful about their prospects when they met for a get-out-the-vote event at Ashawagh Hall in Springs. Early-voting numbers were encouraging, they said.
Nov 3, 2026
Arts
‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Lives Anew
Bay Street Theater will next have Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” adapted for the stage by Aaron Sorkin, an Academy Award-winning screenwriter, and directed by Stephen Hamilton, one of the theater’s founders and its former executive director.
Nov 5, 2026
The Church will host a Reflections in Music concert featuring music by Bach, Ravel, Debussy, and Poulenc, and a talk by the author of a book about how 9/11 changed this country.
Nov 5, 2026
Opening at Guild Hall is its 86th Artist Members Exhibition along with “Somewhere in Time,” a solo show of paintings by Michael A. Butler, the winner of last year’s members show.
Nov 5, 2026
Ed German will be at the Southampton Cultural Center to perform “Deep Down in Brooklyn,” which follows his experiences earning a Purple Heart and going on to become a popular jazz and soul D.J. at the East End’s public radio station.
Nov 5, 2026
Villages
B-52s Founder Gets Hollywood Boulevard Star
Fred Schneider, who lives here, on the legendary new wave band’s 50-year rise from the college town of Athens, Ga., to the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Soul of Sag Harbor in the Balance
Spurred by the arrival of more retail chains and disappointment at how they were changing the face of the village, Sag Harbor commissioned a study on what a “formula store” is and how to control them.
Scallop Season: Bad News on the Half Shell
East Hampton Town waters will open to bay scallop harvesting at sunrise on Sunday, though this year’s crop is understood to be yet another in a string of disappointments, with few of the local delicacy’s population surviving.
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Food
News for Foodies 11.05.26
Lunch, a.k.a. Lobster Roll, is offering cocktail party packages to be consumed in its restaurants or at home, and this week’s class at Park Place Wines and Liquors will focus on Italian wines.
Nov 5, 2026
News for Foodies 10.29.26
Emily Weitz, an author, singer, and songwriter, is up next in Almond’s Artists and Writers series, while La Fondita will celebrate the Day of the Dead with menu specials.
Oct 29, 2026
News for Foodies 10.22.26
Long Island Restaurant Week nears, there’s a Spanish wine class at Park Place and an Artists’ Table at the Watermill Center, and whiskey and barbecue spice up the Sagaponack Farm Distillery.
Oct 22, 2026