Villages

Service was paused at Gosman’s Topside, Inlet Cafe, and Clam Bar restaurants on Friday afternoon so the blessing of good health for Kate Hobbes could be celebrated by the tight-knit staff.

This East Hampton Star archive snapshot of Frederica Gallatin (1913-2003) on the beach at the Maidstone Club depicts what a beach day in the 1930s would look like for young women in the summer colony.

Robert Hefner and Kay Spear Gibson had been searching for some time for a suitable tribute to honor Isabel (Min) Spear Hefner, his wife and her sister, who died in 2023 of breast cancer. When they found an auction listing for a painting by Mary Nimmo Moran they “instantly knew” it would be the perfect way to memorialize Min’s “beauty, her incredible bravery.”

Best in show at the Consolidated Hamptons Dog Show of 1925 at the Meadow Club in Southampton? A Sealyham terrier. And much more from our past pages.

The John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor has put out a call for candidates to run for its board in the Sept. 25 election and budget vote.

Nellie Lawrence Tiffany (1883-1966) read this essay at her East Hampton High graduation. It attests to her scholastic efforts and some concerns that echo those of students today.

A few hundred lucky subscribers to SiriusXM satellite radio will be treated to a concert by Metallica, one of the biggest bands in the world, when the broadcaster holds its annual concert at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett on Aug. 28.

The long-awaited ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Montauk Playhouse aquatic and cultural centers is planned for Friday, Aug. 15, at 2 p.m.

The Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter has announced a fund-raising campaign with a goal of $15,000 to build a new playground on its property in the village.

“No horses allowed to stand here, per order Gen. Youngs.” Such was Montauk in the year 1900. Plus much more ripped from our storied pages.

It’s property tax time in East Hampton Village, which is again offering three ways for residents to submit payments.

The New York State Broadcasters Association has announced its 2025 Hall of Fame inductees, with its president, David Donovan, praising the class as setting the “gold standard” for New York broadcasting. Among the six honorees are Sag Harbor’s own radio legends Bill Evans and Gary Sapiane, both of WLNG 92.1 FM.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation issued an air quality health advisory on July 26 because of particulate matter, descending on the East End from wildfires that are again raging in Canada. If the East End were a city, it would have been ranked seventh worst in the world, between Doha, Qatar, and Lahore, Pakistan, according to iqair.com.

The Amagansett Village Improvement Society will tip its collective hat to Joan Tulp on Saturday. “I don’t think I’ve met anyone more committed to their hometown than Joan,” said Victor Gelb, who serves as co-president of the group with her.

In a surprise announcement on Monday, LTV, which operates East Hampton Town’s public access channel, announced that Michael Clark, its executive director since October 2019, has resigned. Jonathan Olken, chairman of LTV’s board of directors, has also resigned, and Ellen Watson, LTV’s longtime operations manager, is soon to retire.

Dennis and Barbara D’Andrea have been active as preservationists and community advocates for as long as the collective institutional memory of Wainscott serves.

This photograph from the C. Frank Dayton Photo Collection at the East Hampton Library shows the A.O. Jones Hardware Store at 51 Newtown Lane. Owned by Asa O. Jones (1857-1953), it later became East End Hardware and today is A.L.C., a clothing store.

Through a window in the second-floor den of a house on Cranberry Hole Road, the undeveloped dunescape of Napeague State Parks comes into view. The house — on the market with Sotheby’s at $3.8 million — was sited deliberately to take in as much of the landscape as possible.

The day a hundred years ago when the baseballers of Mattituck were sent home by the boys of Bonac to consider sticking to raising cauliflower. And much more colorfully relayed by your newspaper of record.

In 1975 a Bock and a Topping were netting for porgies and hauled in a dusky shark. And other tidbits from our pages.

The pace at which Lenny Ackerman moves belies his 86 years. The prominent East End attorney writes a weekly column for The Mountain Messenger, has taken up painting, and has just published his fourth book.

According to the most recent United States Drought Monitor Map, published on July 24, there is no drought on the East End. Nevertheless, the Suffolk County Water Authority issued a Stage 1 water alert due to "dangerously low levels in water storage tanks." 

The seventh annual Hamptons Dog Show is on Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the American Legion Hall in Amagansett, with the East Hampton Lions Club hosting this fund-raiser for the Guide Dog Foundation of Long Island.

The Ellen Hermanson Foundation will host its 30th Summer Gala on Saturday from 6:30 to 11:30 p.m. at the Bridgehampton Tennis and Surf Club.

EyeGallery, described as “a living cabinet of curiosities,” has opened in the 4,000-square-foot space that had long been home to White’s Drug and Department Store.

Six account books dating to as early as 1794 were discovered in a barn here. They not only document transactions for merchandise such as calico, schoolbooks, and maize, they offer a glimpse into life in early East Hampton.

“What we’re trying to do here is convert,” said Biddle Duke, the moderator at a ChangeHampton panel discussion called “How to Move the Eco-Needle on Our Lands.”

People who attend the Montauk Playhouse’s Senior Nutrition Program are in an uproar over the recent resignation of its executive director, Anna Ostroff, and angrily let the program’s board of directors know it during a combative meeting on Tuesday.

The 300th anniversary of Miss Amelia’s Cottage, on Main Street in Amagansett, will be celebrated on its grounds on Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m. Food, drinks, and music will be offered, and the 1850 Lester Barn will be open.

Jess Garay, an avid thrifter, is “always hunting for a treasure” when shopping for vintage clothing. But earlier this month in Amagansett, she found one she is sure she will never be able to top: a jersey that had belonged to her late cousin, who died at 24.