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Water Report a Mixed Bag

While most waters in East Hampton Town were often of a high quality in 2023, what happens on the land affects what happens to surface waters, and more people and more land use mean more nitrogen loading, leading to more harmful algal blooms, according to an annual report on the waterways from Christopher Gobler of Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences.

Mar 28, 2024

Devon Yacht Club Wants to Demolish and Draw Back

The Devon Yacht Club, which hopes to proceed with a large-scale redevelopment of its 120-year-old facility, is proposing to demolish all the buildings on its 13.82-acre site and to rebuild elsewhere, farther from Gardiner’s Bay.

Mar 28, 2024

Government

The New York State presidential primary election is on Tuesday. Early voting continues through Saturday, March 30.

Mar 28, 2024

The East Hampton Town Board voted last Thursday to authorize a law firm to file a petition with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation commissioner to settle its lead agency dispute with the planning board with regard to the proposed new senior citizens center in Amagansett.

Mar 28, 2024

Fearing an underwater land rush, the Sag Harbor Village Board voted unanimously to limit the number of moorings allowed in the outermost area of its jurisdiction.

Mar 28, 2024

The Shelter Island Democratic Committee has endorsed John Avlon’s campaign to represent New York’s First Congressional District. The endorsement is Mr. Avlon’s third from a town Democratic committee, following those from East Hampton and Southampton.

Mar 28, 2024

Arts

Storytelling Shaped by a Rebellious Life

After a lifetime of defying authority, Sag Harbor’s Terry Sullivan is using filmmaking to tell his stories of resistance and activism on LTV, inspired in part by his 24-year friendship with Pete Seeger.

Mar 27, 2024

The most recent commemorations of Roy Lichtenstein’s centennial are a 100-work retrospective at the Albertina Museum in Vienna and the completion of a catalogue raisonne of his work.

Mar 27, 2024

The Sag Harbor Cinema will celebrate the 50-year career of the photographer James Hamilton with “Uncropped,” D.W. Young’s new documentary, an exhibit of Mr. Hamilton's photographs, and films by Alfred Hitchcock, Wes Anderson, and George Romero.

Mar 27, 2024

HamptonsFilm’s annual Screenwriters Lab will pair three chosen screenwriters with three accomplished writer-director mentors.

Mar 27, 2024

Villages

Owl's Death Prompts Call for Bird-Friendly Building

Window strikes kill up to a billion birds annually and rank up there with cats and habitat destruction as the leading causes of recent steep declines. After the recent death of a much-watched Eurasian eagle-owl that was set loose from the Central Park Zoo, a bill calling for bird-friendly building measures has been revived in the New York Assembly and Senate.

Mar 28, 2024

Architect’s Descendants Visit East Hampton Gem

A lifelong California resident, Michele L’Hommedieu Hofmann had no idea until retiring last fall and starting to research her family history how prominent a role her great-great-grandfather James H. L’Hommedieu had played in Long Island’s late-19th-century architecture. On a trip to New York that included a stop at an East Hampton house he designed for Robert Southgate Bowne, a founder of the Maidstone Club and first president of the Long Island Rail Road, she and her family got a crash course in L’Hommedieu’s work.

Mar 28, 2024

Item of the Week: Gardiner Family Gossip From 1889

On July 16, 1889, while staying in Lenox, Mass., Sarah Diodati Gardiner Thompson wrote to her daughter Sarah Thompson Gardiner, who was vacationing at Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. Family news was top of mind.

Mar 28, 2024

Food

Time to Make Those Reservations

Long Island Restaurant Week is coming up, with East End eateries taking part from Southampton to Amagansett.

Mar 27, 2024

News for Foodies 03.28.24

Easter specials to go from Loaves and Fishes and The Cookery, restaurant options for Easter from Baron’s Cove and Calissa, and new ownership for Maidstone Hotel.

Mar 27, 2024

Hop to These Easter Options

Easter brunch and/or dinner at 1770 House, Nick and Toni’s, Topping Rose, and Lulu Kitchen and Bar, as well as takeout options from Art of Eating and L&W.

Mar 20, 2024