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2024 Beach Report Details Rescues, Crowds, and More

East Hampton lifeguards performed a record number of rescues, 226 total, during the 2024 season at town beaches, according to the town’s chief lifeguard, John Ryan Jr. Of that number, 202 rescues occurred at protected beaches, while 24 took place at unprotected beaches. Both of those numbers doubled from last year’s totals.

Dec 12, 2024

Springs General Store: A 2026 Reopening?

The Springs General Store has been shuttered since the end of the 2022 summer season, and while the new owners are getting closer to winning approvals for changes they plan, one of them, Daniel Bennett, confirmed via text last week that the store will remain closed for the summer of 2025.

Dec 12, 2024

Government

Upward of 50 people attended East Hampton Village’s first workshop as it prepares to update its comprehensive plan, filling nearly every chair in the Emergency Services Building. Familiar themes peppered the conversation: traffic congestion and speeding, lack of affordable housing, the departure of mom-and-pop shops, and the constant clatter of the landscaping and construction industries.

Dec 12, 2024

Mashashimuet Park could be getting a new entrance, Sag Harbor Village’s deputy mayor, Ed Haye, announced at Tuesday night’s village board meeting. It would be moved south of its current location, he said, onto the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, and could be folded into Suffolk County’s planned renovation to that road.

Dec 12, 2024

The East Hampton Town Board discussed on Tuesday the procedure for when members of the architectural review board or the zoning board of appeals must be absent from meetings and an alternate must be formally accepted into the process.

Dec 12, 2024

A Sag Harbor Village plan to connect two sewersheds to the wastewater treatment plant is moving ahead. The village accepted construction bids on the projects at a meeting on Nov. 19, and Aidan Corish of the village board expects the work to begin in early 2025.

Dec 12, 2024

Arts

Linda Reville Eisenberg: ‘Calm Amid the Clamor’

Linda Reville Eisenberg's still-life paintings, featured in her Guild Hall exhibition, celebrate simplicity while retaining elements fundamental to the genre.

Dec 12, 2024

With a talented cast and creative sound effects, "A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play" brings a 1940s radio studio to the Southampton Cultural Center.

Dec 12, 2024

Bay Street Theater's weekend will feature Judy Carmichael's piano virtuosity and a mockumentary film satire set mostly on the East End.

Dec 12, 2024

The Duchess Trio will bring their tight vocal harmonies to LTV, while "Scrooge . . . The Relapse" will summon Freud, Marx, and Charles Darwin to reform the miser.

Dec 12, 2024

Villages

East Hampton’s Monogram Shop Jingles All the Way

It’s fitting that the winner of East Hampton’s first Holiday Spirit storefront-décorating contest should be a business known for having fascinating windows: The Monogram Shop on Newtown Lane has made national headlines not for its holiday décor but for the tally of political cup sales that, in election cycles past, has been a notoriously accurate predictor of presidential outcomes. The window cup count was wrong in November, but the window display in December is, according to a panel of judges, oh so right.

Dec 12, 2024

A Powerful Pitch Supports Food Pantry

Pitch Your Peers, a charitable effort launched here in 2023 by Brooke Bohnsack, has awarded a $35,000 grant to the Springs Food Pantry and a $10,000 grant to Project Most, the organization announced on Dec. 1.

Dec 12, 2024

Item of the Week: Ernestine Rose, Pioneering Librarian

Bridgehampton’s Ernestine Rose, an important figure in the history of the New York Public Library, championed preserving Black culture through the Schomburg Collection.

Dec 12, 2024

Long Island Books

Food

News for Foodies 12.12.24

Holiday dining options from Nick and Toni's, Almond, Art of Eating, Lulu Kitchen and Bar, Bridgehampton Inn, and Il Buco al Mare.

Dec 12, 2024

News for Foodies 12.05.24

A takeout menu from Bostwick's Seafood Market, holiday hams from Townline BBQ, and cocktail kits from the Sagaponack Farm Distillery.

Dec 5, 2024

Recipes That Speak to History

The East Hampton Library's exhibition "The Way We Cooked in East Hampton" features a treasure trove of recipes from its Long Island Collection.

Nov 28, 2024