Brush fires in the Pine Barrens around Westhampton Beach that burned more than 600 acres were likely sparked by a fire that spread from a house in Manorville where people were making s'mores on Saturday afternoon, Suffolk County police said. Some 90 agencies responded, including fire departments from the South Fork.
A New Landmark by Wainscott Pond
A unanimous East Hampton Town Board passed a resolution Tuesday to create the John Osborn Homestead Historic Landmark at 66 Main Street in Wainscott. The town purchased the property from Ronald Lauder, using community preservation fund money, for $56 million late last year.
March 6, 2025
Police & Courts
A fire on Park Street in East Hampton early Saturday afternoon left extensive damage to a house and killed the family dog, East Hampton Fire Chief Duane Forrester said Monday.
Mar 11, 2025
East Hampton Village is exploring creating its own justice court that could be up and running at the Emergency Services Building on Cedar Street by next January.
Mar 6, 2025
The East Hampton Town Police Department’s planning for security at the Montauk Friends of Erin St. Patrick’s Day Parade, to be held on March 30, begins early in the new year and continues until a week before the parade. But after the attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on New Year’s Day that killed 14 people, there is an even greater focus on safety this year.
Mar 6, 2025
A Republican Take on Trump 2.0
In the early days of Donald Trump’s second term as president, local Republican leaders and those who are serving in elected positions now or did in the past reflected on the administration’s first months, calling for patience amid the upheaval.
Mar 6, 2025
Shift Seen in Housing Opinions in Wainscott
The nature of the discourse Saturday, when the executive director of the East Hampton Housing Authority discussed a forthcoming housing development on Route 114 in Wainscott with the hamlet's citizens advisory committee, was markedly different from discussions on affordable housing in the Wainscott School District that took place a decade ago.
Mar 6, 2025
Government
At a 2025 Environmental Roundtable hosted by State Senator Anthony Palumbo in Riverhead last Thursday, where elected officials from across the East End met with environmental interest groups, East Hampton Town Councilwoman Cate Rogers used her time to speak about one of the town’s biggest environmental issues, coastal resilience, and the fear that some projects may no longer get the federal funding that small municipalities rely on.
Mar 6, 2025
The East Hampton Town Board is considering allowing multi-unit residences on housing lots as small as half an acre, which would include an increase of parcels in the town’s affordable housing overlay district and a revision of the town code. Right now, multi-unit dwellings are only allowed in those districts on lots that are over three acres.
Mar 6, 2025
The East Hampton Village Board this week discussed a proposed public hearing on a new law that would shift the onus of notifying neighbors who live within 200 feet of an applicant’s property to the applicants, rather than the village. The proposal sparked a letter of objection from Leonard Ackerman, a lawyer and longtime village resident.
Feb 27, 2025
Five progressive Long Island groups and town Democrats rally to be heard by Representative Nick LaLota at town hall-style meetings that are open to the public and not controlled or managed. His answer? There’s a tele-town hall coming on March 5.
Feb 27, 2025
Arts
Parallel Paths in Architecture and Art
Throughout his long and successful career as an architect, Peter Gumpel has sustained a practice as a watercolor painter some of whose remarkable portraits are being assembled into a book.
Mar 13, 2025
Boots on the Ground Theater's new production is "The Railway Children," adapted from Edith Nesbit's 1905 children's book and starring three young local actors.
Mar 13, 2025
LTV will host a solo show about Shirley Chisholm, three local performers in concert, and Isle of Klezbos, an all-female klezmer group.
Mar 13, 2025
Eric Dever and Joel Perlman in Bridgehampton, monotype workshop at The Church, group shows at Lucore, the White Room, and Grenning, "Erotic City" at Firestone.
Mar 13, 2025
Villages
Wildlife Work Begins With a Rescue Center
Growing up with a father well known for documenting the vanishing wildlife of the African continent, it may have been inevitable that Zara Beard would eventually make it her mission to rescue wildlife and protect the natural world. EchoWild, the conservation nonprofit she founded this year, will start locally, with a wildlife trauma unit in East Hampton in partnership with the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center.
Item of the Week: Aca and Silas, in Plain Sight
What is most significant about this 1787 deed is the grouping of human lives — enslaved people — with real estate.
Clergy Affirm Commitment to Immigrant Neighbors, Too
Community members, elected officials, and clergy gathered at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on Feb. 19 for a conversation with Minerva Perez, executive director of Organizacion Latino-America (OLA) of Eastern Long Island, on how to approach changing federal immigration policy.
Sports
Mar 6, 2025
