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Bruce and Jane Collins Celebrate Their 75th

Bruce and Jane Collins, both 95 years old, will celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary on March 14. 

Mar 13, 2025
Item of the Week: The Artist’s Odyssey of Sheila Isham

It’s all about the light, they say. From Thomas Moran to Jackson Pollock, countless creatives have called the East End home. Included in that number is Sheila Eaton Isham (1924-2024), a globe-trotting painter, poet, and printmaker. 

Mar 13, 2025
The Way It Was for March 13, 2025

From a Peconic River befouled by sewage 100 years ago to a sedan’s telltale sagging springs that led to a burglary arrest, it happened here.

Mar 13, 2025
White and Halbur Wed in Denver

Edward Francis White and Breanna Dawn Halbur of Arvada, Colo., were married on Sunday afternoon on the steps of the Denver City and County Building overlooking Civic Center Park, with the Hon. Renee A. Goble officiating.

Mar 13, 2025
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.

Mar 6, 2025
The Way It Was for March 6, 2025

The good old days? How about 1975, when Sag Harbor was “the last village on Long Island to still discharge raw human wastes into its surrounding waters.” And much more from our past pungent pages.

Mar 6, 2025
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.

Mar 6, 2025
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.

Feb 27, 2025
Item of the Week: Remembering Henry Haney

Henry Haney (1930-2019), a familiar face to many East Hampton residents and a valuable volunteer here, was captured in this photo by Morgan McGivern with his wife, Louise Hughes Haney, sometime in the 1990s.

Feb 27, 2025
The Way It Was for February 27, 2025

Fifty years ago, problems bubbled up at the Bridgehampton School, then 80-percent Black, while East Hampton Village said no thank you to an incoming McDonald’s.

Feb 27, 2025
A Century of Ice Cream and Community at Candy Kitchen

Spiro Stavropoulos opened the Candy Kitchen on May 2, 1925. Thus, the year 2025 marks a whole century in business for the restaurant, owned since 1981 by Gus Laggis and managed day to day by his daughters, Jamie Laggis and Maria Laggis Lima, and son-in-law, Mauricio Lima.

Feb 20, 2025
Item of the Week: The 1922 Wreck of Eagle Boat 17

For Eagle Boat 17, thick Atlantic fog off East Hampton spelled disaster on May 19, 1922, as it was en route from the naval base at Norfolk, Va., to New London, Conn.

Feb 20, 2025
OLA Continues to Advise Residents of Mobile Home Park

The nonprofit advocacy group led a workshop for tenants at the East Hampton Village manufactured home community on Oakview Highway this week so residents can advocate for themselves "to make sure it’s healthier, safer, that you’re able to be in a place that has good roads, regular electric, heat, septic, water,” Minerva Perez, OLA’s executive director, said.

Feb 20, 2025
Rowdy Hall (the House) Is on a Roll

Long before the name “Rowdy Hall” was adopted by a popular East Hampton Village bar and eatery (now in Amagansett), it was a boarding house: Mrs. Harry Hamlin’s Rowdy Hall. The building, now a single-family house, still stands at 111 Egypt Lane, although currently it’s floating, suspended six feet above a hole. When it’s lowered again, it will be on a new foundation.

Feb 20, 2025
The Way It Was for February 20, 2025

One hundred and twenty-five years ago, East Hampton’s status as the next “Newport of Long Island” was top of mind in a competitive Southampton. At issue? Installing a single crosswalk.

Feb 20, 2025
Widespread Power Outages Hit East End

Reports of electrical outages from Montauk to Wainscott, and all the way up through Shelter Island and the North Fork, rolled in on Thursday beginning shortly after 10 a.m.

Feb 20, 2025
Stranded Risso's Dolphin Could Not Be Saved

A female Risso's dolphin over nine feet long was found beached and still alive at Albert's Landing Beach Friday morning, but rescuers' efforts could not save it.

Feb 14, 2025
A Meeting With Clergy on Deportations

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church has invited people from all faiths to a presentation on Wednesday by Minerva Perez, the executive director of Organizacion Latino-Americana.

Feb 13, 2025
A Push for Historic Status in Wainscott

The Wainscott Citizens Advisory Committee voted unanimously to write a letter to the East Hampton Town Board calling for the historic preservation of the entire 30-acre property at 66 Main Street, which the town purchased for $56 million last year with community preservation money.

Feb 13, 2025
If a Tree Falls In East Hampton, Who Hears It?

A tree once grew in East Hampton. A big tree. A “perfectly healthy tree” that was likely “a couple of lifetimes” old, according to Dave Collins, the East Hampton Village superintendent of public works. Then, a homeowner decided it needed to go and in a spasm of governmental efficiency, it was promptly removed by the state. The tree seems to have fallen victim to a cross-jurisdictional communication gap.

Feb 13, 2025
Item of the Week: The 1948 Valentine’s Day Flood

In this photo, East Hampton firefighters are pictured at Guild Hall, assessing the damage before pumping water out of the John Drew Theater and its orchestra pit.

Feb 13, 2025
It’s a Bird Count Weekend

This weekend, as bad weather blows across the East End and you’re staring out the window, why not count the birds that you see at your feeder for the Great Backyard Bird Count?

Feb 13, 2025
The Way It Was for February 13, 2025

Collapsing sections of roadway, an exploding propane tank: Back in 2000 it was the bridge reconstruction follies in Sag Harbor. And more ripped from our past coverage.

Feb 13, 2025
Fire and Ice in Sag Harbor

The Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce’s annual HarborFrost returns Friday and Saturday, bringing fireworks and winter activities like ice carving and fire dancing to Main Street and beyond.

Feb 6, 2025
Item of the Week: A Snow-Covered Gunster House

The Joseph F. Gunster House, also known as the T.W. Morris House, on Hither Lane near Amy’s Lane, appears here covered in snow, off a snowy road. While the photograph is uncredited and undated, Gunster (1894-1979) and his wife, Ruth Harris Work Gunster, who was known as Harriette, owned the house for almost 21 years, between August 1943 and 1964.

Feb 6, 2025
The Way It Was for February 6, 2025

A hundred years ago in The Star: Bad hootch so snarled up the feet and warped the brains of some of the people attending dances at the Chateau de Legion of Eugene Hand Post, American Legion, at Hampton Bays, that henceforth admission to the dances will be by card only.

Feb 6, 2025
Item of the Week: The Story of Edwin Rose

This photo from the Hampton Library showcases the Bridgehampton house of Edwin Rose, Civil War veteran, Southampton Town supervisor, state legislator.

Jan 30, 2025
The Way It Was for January 30, 2025

Environmental problems on the East End, from lobster die-offs in the Sound to pesticides to overdevelopment, come to a head in the year 2000. And much more from our past coverage.

Jan 30, 2025
‘Sensitive Areas’ No Longer Safe From ICE Raids?

One of the first executive orders of the new Trump administration rescinded Biden administration policies that forbid Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from conducting raids in “sensitive areas” such as schools and places of worship. With this dramatic policy change, local school officials and religious leaders are banding together in a call to protect the immigrant community.

Jan 30, 2025
A Painting Comes Home to Springs

A painting by the late Ralph Carpentier, a well-known landscape painter here who died in 2016, is back in the hamlet where he created it and on display at the Springs Library.

Jan 23, 2025