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
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
Warning that it could be a false alarm, a police dispatcher alerted officers on the evening of Feb. 25 that a caller had reported “a man with a possible bomb attached to his chest” on Main Street. Police found no such man nor any witnesses to the person described.
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
The Parrish Reveals Its 2025 Lineup
The Parrish Art Museum's 2025 exhibition schedule features solo shows dedicated to Shirin Neshat, Sean Scully, James Howell, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Nina Yankowitz.
Mar 6, 2025
East End Jazz will bring seven female musicians to LTV Studios for a concert celebrating the works of iconic female jazz composers and performers.
Mar 6, 2025
A busy weekend at The Church in Sag Harbor will feature the director, actor, and visual artist Walter Bobbie, a dance party, open studios, and a talk about some typewriters.
Mar 6, 2025
Madoo visits Manhattan, a comic romp at Hampton Theatre Company, Michelangelo in verse, soul at Bay Street, and a talk on beneficial wasps.
Mar 6, 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.
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Mar 6, 2025
