Villages

Sept. 23 is the tentative date for a parade that will cap a celebration of East Hampton Town's 375th anniversary; festivities are likely to begin in June.

It’s been five years since a petting zoo sprang up at the Sag Harbor Garden Center for Easter weekend, but Linnette Roe, who is kicking off her second season as the center’s owner, thought it was time to bring it back.

The day Patrolman Glen Stonemetz's 1953 Chevrolet sedan got torched in the Newtown Lane parking lot. And much more ripped from the pages of The Star of yore.

The Long Island Power Authority’s board of trustees voted on March 29 to implement a standard time-of-day rate and optional “super off-peak rate” for residential customers on Long Island and in the Rockaways starting in 2024. Its customers will have the option to remain on a flat rate.

With its executive director, Scott Howe, retiring this month, the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons announced Monday that it has hired Kimberly J. Nichols as its next top administrator.

In this photo from The East Hampton Star’s photo archive, William Cooper (b. 1899), owner and proprietor of Deep Hollow Ranch in Montauk, is seen on a hay-covered truck bed next to several calves.

Stony Brook Southampton Hospital has closed the Parrish Hall drive-through Covid-19 testing site in response to a decline in positive cases and the easing of New York State Department of Health and federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, the hospital announced on Monday.

“It’s a record price per square foot for any commercial real estate transaction in the Hamptons, ever,” said Jeremey Tahari of Tahari Capital, whose father, Elie Tahari, sold the building at 1 Main Street in East Hampton for $22 million to Bernard Arnault, named by Forbes last week as the world’s richest person.

Christopher Gangemi, a reporter who joined the staff of The East Hampton Star in December 2021 as a newcomer to journalism, won the New York Press Association’s Rookie of the Year award at its Better Newspaper convention last weekend. The Star was also recognized for its news and feature writing and for its East magazine.

The Long Island Rail Road has added more trains to its South Fork Commuter Connection on Fridays, increasing service and, let’s hope, removing more cars from the clogged Montauk Highway. The new Friday trains will operate year round.

In East Hampton Town’s villages and hamlets, yes, sales are down, but it’s because the inventory of available properties is at a historic low, brokers here are saying. "Our prices have not dropped off a cliff — we just don’t have any houses to sell.”

For the first time ever, East Hampton Village will offer a lifeguard certification at its own beaches, the village’s head lifeguard, Drew Smith, announced earlier this month.