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Hoping to add some East End flair to the holiday season, Valerie Smith, the owner of the Monogram Shop on Newtown Lane in East Hampton, decided she wanted a window display of gingerbread houses with a classic cedar shingle architectural style. She commissioned Brenda Nibley, a Utah resident and the owner of gingergiddy.com, a company that makes gingerbread house kits, to bring her vision to life.

The latest property transfers.

An East Hampton gym closes, and the Chamber of Commerce organizes a holiday shopping campaign to help local merchants.

The scramble to find a refuge during the pandemic has led to surging home sales and prices, bidding wars, and an ongoing boom in the East End real estate market, according to third-quarter reports from several real estate agencies.

The latest property transfers.

The Sagg General Store, the historical building on Sagg Main Street in Sagaponack that is occupied by Pierre’s Market and the village’s post office, is on the market for just under $4 million.

E — E Home, a new store on the southwest side of Amagansett’s Main Street, looks alluring from the outside, but it is upon stepping inside that a feeling of having strayed into a museum or an artisan’s studio hits.

These prices have been calculated from the county transfer tax. Unless otherwise noted, the parcels contain structures.

These prices have been calculated from the county transfer tax. Unless otherwise noted, the parcels contain structures.

While the cancellation of big summer events and limits on social gatherings put a major dent in their business, caterers on the East End report that things are picking up in a different way as wedding couples and private clients find ways to cut down their guests lists to hold more intimate celebrations.

A culinary weekend in Sag Harbor, new beauty products for Black women, and a co-working space reopens in East Hampton.

As the pandemic continues, temperatures drop, and people prepare to spend more time indoors, East End homeowners are clamoring to upgrade ventilation systems with air filters and purifiers, among other devices to keep their homes as Covid-safe as possible.

The Hamptons Realty Group, a fixture on Main Street in Amagansett since 1984, rolled up its signature red awning and vacated the space it has long occupied this week. The firm is still very much alive and prospering, said its owner Htun Han, but the pandemic has changed the way it is doing business.

Because of a booming real estate market, revenues for the Peconic Bay Region Community Preservation Fund in August were $11.16 million, an increase of more than 85 percent from same month last year, Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. announced on Monday.

"The increase in revenue continues to be fueled by the exodus from New York City and other population centers to the East End," Mr. Thiele said.

These prices have been calculated from the county transfer tax. Unless otherwise noted, the parcels contain structures.

The Suffolk County Aquaculture Lease Program's 10-year review advisory group will hold a public meeting on Wednesday from 4 to 6 p.m. via Zoom. Members of the public will have the ability to comment.

These prices have been calculated from the county transfer tax. Unless otherwise noted, the parcels contain structures.

A seminar on recouping economic losses in the pandemic, and a new home maintenance service.

These prices have been calculated from the county transfer tax. Unless otherwise noted, the parcels contain structures.

These prices have been calculated from the county transfer tax. Unless otherwise noted, the parcels contain structures.

New York State's hemp pilot research program has grown from two growers and 30 acres in 2016 to more than 500 producers and 20,000 acres this year, but is set to expire on Oct. 31, and participants in the state's budding hemp industry are nervous about changes in state and federal regulations that they say could have catastrophic consequences just as the industry is starting to thrive.

These prices have been calculated from the county transfer tax. Unless otherwise noted, the parcels contain structures.

From acupuncture in the home to Baron’s Cove rooms in the off-season.

Due to a booming real estate market, the Peconic Bay Region Community Preservation Fund collected $61.1 million in revenues so far this year, the most for the first seven months of a year in the program's history, Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. announced last week. 

The preservation fund, which provides money for land preservation, water quality improvement, and the protection of maritime heritage, receives the proceeds of a 2-percent real estate transfer tax. The money goes to the five East End towns: East Hampton, Southampton, Shelter Island, Southold, and Riverhead.

The novel coronavirus and a booming real estate market on the South Fork are forcing real estate agencies to get creative in selling and renting properties. Virtual tours have become a popular solution.

AMAGANSETT

J. and B. Teatom to B. and D. Slusarev, 15 Arbor Path, 1.98 acres, May 1, $2,500,000.

84 IWH Realty L.L.C. to El Refugio 84 L.L.C., 84 Indian Wells Highway, 2.1 acres, June 25, $6,300,000.

EAST HAMPTON

G. Figliolia to M. and E. Beinus Trusts, 80 Sherrill Road, .34 acre, June 10, $4,000,000.

W. and J. Schacter to G. Tsetis, 7 Little Court, 1.55 acres, July 1, $1,700,000.

J. and S. Briller to N. and C. Casino, 70 Ely Brook to Hand’s Creek Road, .87 acre, June 18, $795,000.

When the company declared its support for the Black Lives Matter movement on a chalkboard outside its tasting room and on its Instagram account in June, initial reactions were largely positive. But a delayed backlash in the form of a new Facebook group that emerged last week called Defund Montauk Brewing Company is dragging the small business onto the battlefield of a social media war of words.

AMAGANSETT

L. Badkin to R. D’Amico and K. Connors, 143 Mulford Lane, .3 acre, June 20, $775,000.

L. Halpern to K. and M. Perra, 127 Central Avenue, .29 acre, June 22, $1,900,000.

J. Wagner to J. and H. Gagliardi, 77 Gardiner Drive, .23 acre, June 15, $2,000,000.

BRIDGEHAMPTON

R. Nangalia and Ricciardi to D. Skokos and E. Albies, 125 Sea Farm Lane, .34 acre, May 13, $1,520,000.

EAST HAMPTON

The impending merger of BNB Bank, the East End's last independent local bank, with Dime Community Bank of New York City will allow the institution to provide greater financial support to businesses while maintaining its connection to the region, Kevin O'Connor, the C.E.O. of BNB Bank, said in an interview last week.

When the Montauk Brewing Company declared its support for the Black Lives Matter movement on a chalkboard outside its tasting room in June, initial reactions were positive, but a delayed backlash in the form of a new Facebook group called Defund Montauk Brewing Company emerged earlier this week and by Sunday had over 20,000 members.