As school districts across the East End tallied budget and school board votes Tuesday night, all eyes were on Montauk, where a $38.41 million renovation bond ended up failing by just 43 votes, with a record number of people weighing in.
Traveling Vietnam Memorial to Visit Amagansett
“Getting to the wall is one of the steps in the healing process for combat vets from Vietnam. A lot of guys have survivor’s guilt. Maybe they missed a patrol and lost a bunch of buddies. Then there are family members who bring their kids and grandkids,” said Doc Russo, who travels around the country with a 300-foot replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall in Washington, D.C.
May 15, 2025
Police & Courts
Russell Young was getting ready for bed at home in East Hampton around 10:30 on the night of March 6, when the 32-year-old’s heart, suddenly and without warning, stopped functioning as it always had before. His wife, Laura Young, immediately swung into action. A police officer’s quick response time and emergency training got them through the “crucial moments” before the ambulance arrived.
May 15, 2025
A Sag Harbor woman told police on Friday that her cat was stuck in a tree and would not come down, adding that she’d called an arborist friend who was on the way to help.
May 15, 2025
A search of a Jeep pulled over for swerving turned up a substance in a clear plastic bag. It later tested positive for cocaine, police said.
May 15, 2025
Pushback Over Plan to Remove Navigation Aids
Word that the United States Coast Guard has proposed to remove hundreds of navigational markers along the Northeast coast, including buoys, day beacons, and lights, is drawing a mostly negative reaction among mariners in East Hampton Town, with commercial fishermen and others warning that their removal would worsen already dangerous conditions.
May 15, 2025
Windmill Village Hopes to Add More Units
With a $338,000 grant from the East Hampton Town Community Housing Fund to help cover “soft costs,” the Windmill I senior citizen housing development is honing plans to add 20 new units to its property on Accabonac Road.
May 15, 2025
Government
The East Hampton Town Trustees heard and approved a request by South Fork Sea Farmers, a nonprofit educational arm of the town’s shellfish hatchery and its community oyster garden program, to implement a program aiming to establish eelgrass meadows in Accabonac Harbor.
May 15, 2025
A long-discussed roundabout at the intersection of Stephen Hand’s Path, Long Lane, and Two Holes of Water Road in East Hampton has begun operating, despite the continuation of work on the inside part of the circle.
May 15, 2025
Some ocean beaches, including Indian Wells and Atlantic Avenue in Amagansett and South Edison and Ditch Plain in Montauk, will be staffed by lifeguards beginning on Saturday, May 24, during the Memorial Day weekend, as will Big Albert’s on the bay in Amagansett. They will remain open on weekends until mid-June, when all beaches will be staffed full time.
May 15, 2025
Removing an eastbound lane on Main Street, reconfiguring the Reutershan parking lot, and redevelopment of the Gingerbread Lane/Railroad Avenue district were among the ideas voiced during a virtual workshop on an update to East Hampton Village’s comprehensive plan.
May 8, 2025
Arts
Adapted Spanish Classic a First at Guild Hall
"Fuenteovejuna: East End," an adaptation of a 17th-century Spanish play, features a cast of community members in what will be the first full theatrical production performed entirely in Spanish on the East End.
May 15, 2025
"Independency," the next show at the Southampton Arts Center, will feature a unique collection of American flags and historic textiles dating from 1775 to the present.
May 15, 2025
Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" will have a three-week run at the Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue.
May 15, 2025
The Church in Sag Harbor will host talks by the Rev. Holly Haile Thompson, the first Native women to be a teaching elder of the Presbyterian Church, and Adrienne Terry, a Shinnecock artist who will discuss her handmade "Dreamcatcher."
May 15, 2025
Villages
Time for the Airing of the Quilts at Duck Creek
The third annual Airing of the Quilts will take place on Saturday from noon to 5 at the Arts Center at Duck Creek (Sunday if it rains). Organized by Louise Eastman and Erica-Lynn Huberty, this year’s display is a tribute to the log cabin quilt, long a symbol of refuge and belonging.
A Doctor’s Walk in Montauk
Edwin Keeshan, medical director of the Meeting House Lane Medical Practice in Montauk, will host the hamlet’s first Walk With a Doc, part of a national effort, on Saturday at 11 a.m. The meeting place is the gazebo on the downtown green.
New Pine Beetle Effort Launched
LTV has launched the Pine Protection Project, an effort to address the southern pine beetle’s devastating impact on East Hampton Town’s pitch-pine forests. The project is a multifaceted approach with a goal of fostering discussion leading to action and solutions, and will include a June 11 panel discussion at LTV Studios in Wainscott.
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May 15, 2025
