This week marks the "official" end of the summer season, and while it's kind of silly to think that the post-Labor Day East Hampton scene undergoes a wholesale sea change with nothing but traffic-free roadways, empty beaches, and no-reservation dining, a Tumbleweed Tuesday party on Main Beach promises a welcome breather for locals to unwind and take pause.
Guild Hall's cross-country art-performance events at Main Beach will link 65 East End artists with Los Angeles counterparts.
"Mean Streets" to kick off film series at Pollock-Krasner House, documentary on Patricia Highsmith at Sag Cinema, garden lecture in Bridgehampton
The endless summer of art continues with solo shows at Tripoli, Firestone in Manhattan, Keyes, David Lewis, two at Duck Creek, plus a performance event at the Leiber Collection, and art fairs in the city.
Business is booming at Sundaes on Main, a new fill-your-own-bag, top-your-own-cup frozen yogurt and candy shop in Bridgehampton.
Drivers take note: School opens this week, which means those familiar yellow buses will be back on the roads right alongside everyone else. And with that drive-safe reminder, here's another — school buses here are now equipped with stop-arm cameras to catch and penalize drivers who fail to brake for buses with flashing red lights.
After a month that saw huge spikes in enterococcus bacteria levels at test sites throughout East Hampton Town, thanks mostly to runoff from recent thunderstorms, the Aug. 29 weekly water-quality report from Concerned Citizens of Montauk lists only one site out of 32 with entero levels considered risky to human health: Accabonac Harbor, east of the Old Stone Highway culvert in Springs.
In this photograph, 12-year-old Mary Huntting Rattray (1927-2016) appears just past her ankles in the surf as she enters the ocean at Napeague in 1939.
The arrival of September isn't just about school supplies and classroom assignments -- it's also time to sign up for after-school activities, and for children and teens who enjoy dancing, or want to learn, opportunities are plentiful here.
Ayanna El, LeBron Napier, Bryan Solano, and Melanie Valladares are the recipients of this year’s scholarships from Organizacion Latino-Americana of Eastern Long Island (OLA).
