The suspect in the murder of a Brooklyn woman at a Water Mill wellness resort earlier this week was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in Pennsylvania, Suffolk County police said yesterday.
On the Ballot: Gillibrand Seeks a Third Term
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is running for her third full term in New York against Mike Sapraicone, a retired N.Y.P.D. detective.
October 28, 2024
Police & Courts
The Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad is investigating the murder of a Brooklyn woman at Shou Sugi Ban House in Water Mill, after a staff member found her body in a guestroom there on Monday around 12:30 p.m.
Oct 29, 2024
Jeffrey Erickson was officially appointed chief of the East Hampton Village Police Department at Friday’s village board meeting, after a resolution to do so was unanimously passed by the board. He is the ninth chief of police since the position was created in 1920.
Oct 24, 2024
On Saturday afternoon at the Huntting Inn, a woman caused $2,000 worth of damage to lights and lanterns, smashing them up, the manager told police, after she questioned a bartender about a former employee and objected to the response. After breaking eight lights, she got in an Uber and fled.
Oct 24, 2024
LaLota and Avlon Clash at Two Debates
Bipartisanship and civility erode as the incumbent Republican congressman and his Democratic challenger in a dead-heat race meet face to face.
Oct 24, 2024
Bridges and Divides in Amagansett
Amagansett residents weary of the long delay in repairing the impassable Cranberry Hole Road bridge were urged to take a few minutes at the computer and email someone who might actually help to speed the process along.
Oct 24, 2024
Government
The Suffolk County Public Works Department’s study of traffic on County Road 39 in Southampton, presented at a public meeting last week at Southampton High School, reached an unsurprising conclusion: Traffic is bad, and it’s getting worse each year. But what can be done about it?
Oct 24, 2024
People have often been moved to paint or photograph the 30-acre property at 66 Main Street in Wainscott. At a public hearing last Thursday on East Hampton Town’s plan to purchase it for $56 million, some people were moved to near tears and others to poetry.
Oct 24, 2024
Early voting begins on Saturday, and there are locations in East Hampton and Southampton where registered voters can cast ballots through Nov. 3.
Oct 24, 2024
Construction of a 100-foot cellphone tower behind Sagaponack Village Hall has begun, but residents of the tiny village continued to oppose it at an Oct. 16 meeting of the village board.
Oct 24, 2024
Arts
Notes on a Bard of New York
In part because he knew the legendary journalist Jimmy Breslin, Richard Esposito was able to capture Breslin's larger-than-life character in his new biography.
Oct 24, 2024
Bridgehampton Chamber Music's fall series will open with a program devoted to Beethoven and conclude with a "Baroque Bounty" featuring five composers.
Oct 24, 2024
The Parrish Art Museum has received major donations, including 26 works by Joe Zucker, a painting by Mary Abbott, a lithograph by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, and many others.
Oct 24, 2024
Boots on the Ground's production of Terrence McNally's showbiz satire "It's Only a Play" takes flight thanks to the actors' humor and chemistry.
Oct 24, 2024
Villages
Mrs. Carll's Cake, 1910
The namesake for this recipe was likely Mary Hedges Carll (1831-1900), the aunt of the East Hampton Library’s first librarian, Ettie Hedges Pennypacker.
Traffic Study: Leave LaForest Lane as Is
Residents of LaForest Lane, citing traffic and a serious summertime accident involving two e-bikes, urged the East Hampton Village Board last winter to consider turning their two-way road into a one-way street. The board then commissioned a traffic study, the results of which were presented on Friday.
German Helmet Found in Sand Is Now in Amagansett Museum
Tom Piacentine was walking to the beach in Amagansett 40 years ago when he stumbled upon what looked like a ball buried in the sand. Though he didn’t yet know it, what he had found was a seemingly authentic World War II-era German steel helmet.
