If 2023 was the year of the shark on the South Fork, with multiple sightings leading to frequent temporary beach closings, 2024 seems to be the year of the whale. Last week, for the first time ever, “we had to pull people out of the water to let a whale pass. It was only 20 feet offshore,” said Drew Smith, the head lifeguard for East Hampton Village.
Homeless Man Charged With Kidnapping, Robbery in East Hampton
An East Hampton Town justice sent a homeless man to Suffolk County jail without bail Thursday following the man's arrest on eight combined charges of robbery, attempted robbery, and kidnapping. Police allege that on Tuesday evening he approached three people — all male East Hampton residents, one of them a juvenile — in a parking lot on Springs-Fireplace Road, where he held a knife to the throat of one victim, demanded money, and "ordered" them to drive to an A.T.M.
September 5, 2024
Police & Courts
A Bridgehampton man was arrested on charges of illegal firearms possession on Saturday night following a traffic stop on East Hampton Main Street shortly after 8.
Sep 5, 2024
A man walked into the Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor on Sunday night and pulled the fire alarm, which sprayed multiple pieces of art valued at about $10,000 in all. While no cameras caught the incident, the gallery requested that detectives conduct an investigation.
Sep 5, 2024
Round trip, an ambulance ride from Springs to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital takes between two and three hours, depending on the circumstances. From Montauk, it takes a minimum of three hours. So say two of the ambulance drivers who make these trips regularly, who know "every bump" in the road along the way.
Sep 5, 2024
Star Stories
A Petition to Fix Cranberry Hole Bridge
So many of her customers who’ve stopped to buy produce at Vickie’s Veggies this summer have complained to Vickie Littman about the still-closed Cranberry Hole Road bridge that she was inspired, she said last week, to start a petition.
Sep 5, 2024
Man Sues After Losing Coveted Main Beach Locker
An East Hampton Village resident has sued the village for revoking his permit to park in one of the lots at Main Beach and ordering him to clear out his locker at the Main Beach pavilion, claiming that the village violated both state and federal due process and equal protection laws.
Sep 5, 2024
Government
A proposed administrative change to Gibson Lane Beach prompted backlash from longtime beachgoers after the Sagaponack Village Board voted on July 17 to notify Southampton Town of the village’s intent to take over maintenance of the beach next summer.
Sep 5, 2024
After a public hearing two weeks ago on removing the nature preserve designation from the triangle at the intersection of Springs-Fireplace and Three Mile Harbor Roads in East Hampton, the town board is set to vote Thursday evening on a resolution concerning the future of the property.
Sep 5, 2024
East Hampton Town hopes a two-acre plot it bought last April — a dairy farm until 1959, home to cows that produced for a milk delivery business — will become a public park and community gathering space.
Sep 5, 2024
In Sagaponack residents continued last week to push back at plans to erect a 100-foot cell tower just south of Sagaponack Village Hall off Montauk Highway, with residents calling it an “eyesore” that cuts against village character and others raising concerns about the health effects of the 5G technology it would support.
Aug 29, 2024
Arts
Sax Player on the Rise
Sara Hanahan, a jazz saxophonist who tours nationwide and internationally, will perform with her quartet at the Parrish Art Museum.
Sep 5, 2024
Josh Kessler's career included antiques restoration and opening a recording studio before he found his niche as a sought-after master of piano restoration and tuning.
Sep 5, 2024
Guild Hall stays busy with a Paul Simon documentary from “American Masters,” a performance of a new work for solo piano, and its annual Garden as Art event.
Sep 5, 2024
Michael Light's large-scale photographs range from the gardens of Madoo to nude human statuary to distressed landscapes on Napeague and Stony Hill.
Sep 5, 2024
Villages
A Line in the Sand at Gibson Lane Beach in Sagaponack
A proposed administrative change to Gibson Lane Beach prompted backlash from longtime beachgoers after the Sagaponack Village Board voted on July 17 to notify Southampton Town of the village’s intent to take over maintenance of the beach next summer.
A Bad Year for Bald Eagles and Their Nests
In March, a dead bald eagle was found below a nest in Montauk County Park, a victim of rodenticide. Another nest at the edge of Georgica Pond in East Hampton was lost when the pitch pine it was built in was removed because it had been killed by a southern pine beetle infestation.
Kayla Kearney Comes Home
Friends and community members lined the sides of Springs-Fireplace Road last week to greet Kayla Kearney and her family as they made their way home from the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in New Jersey. The last eight months have been filled with surgeries, treatments, and physical therapy for Ms. Kearney, who in January was diagnosed with a type of neuroendocrine tumor that attaches to the blood vessels.
