Villages

La Dune, an iconic property in Southampton once listed for $150 million, was sold by Sotheby’s Concierge Auctions last month for $88.48 million in a bid placed over the phone. It was the most expensive property ever sold in a real estate auction on the South Fork.

Wanda Sanchez Day, the general and senior policy counsel for Organizacion Latino-Americana (OLA) of Eastern Long Island, will be honored at the New York City Bar Association's International Law Conference on the Status of Women on March 8.

In a significant win for the Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt, PSEG Long Island has opted to forgo its original plan to install an underground cable through the greenbelt, and is exploring an alternative  route that would redirect the cable under roadways to the north, including the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike.

This essay by Jupiter Hammon, an enslaved person and the first published African-American poet in North America, focuses on laborers as the recipients of salvation.

Adrienne Rose Adorno and John (Jackson) Stoddard Peddy of Mount Kisco, N.Y., were married at the Church of Saint Barnabas in Irvington, N.Y., on Dec. 28.

On Tony Lambert’s last day as a clerk at the Bridgehampton Post Office, where he had worked for the past 22 years, the lobby swelled with gratitude and well-wishes for him, as he had accepted a position at a post office closer to his new home.

The wider world and its sorrows reverberated again in East Hampton Village on Saturday, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, when members of East End for Ceasefire, an activist group calling for an end to the war in Gaza, gave a reading called Poems From Palestine in a cold drizzle on Main Street.

It was a scrap metal dealer’s bonanza in 1949, when, seven years after it began, the “demilitarization” of the four 16-inch guns at Camp Hero in Montauk wrapped up. And more tidbits from yesteryear.

A culinary stroll, fireworks over the water, ice-carving, fire-dancing, live music, and a whole lotta hot cocoa will heat things up in Sag Harbor Village on Saturday during the chamber of commerce’s annual HarborFrost celebration.

Mary Waserstein, named executive director of the Greater East Hampton Chamber of Commerce just this past fall, has resigned, saying that she hasn't been paid since starting with the group and has been unable to reach a consensus about compensation with its board of directors.

When the word “suffered” ends up in a year-end real estate home-sales report, you know it can’t be good. And while Judi Desiderio, the C.E.O. and president of Town and Country Real Estate, said “the worst is yet to come,” the rental market is showing strength, and the stock market is hitting new highs.

The developers of the South Fork Wind farm, the country’s first utility-scale offshore wind farm, announced last week that offshore construction had surpassed the halfway point, with completed installation of seven of its 12 turbines.