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Seeking Seniors’ Comments

East Hampton Town and New York State would like comments from residents 60 years of age and older for a comprehensive survey of older adults, the director of the town’s Human Services Department said on Tuesday.

Mar 23, 2023

Brooks-Park Restoration Would Be Costly but ‘Worth It’

After a long-anticipated historical and architectural assessment of the Springs house and studios of the late Abstract Expressionist artists James Brooks and Charlotte Park was delivered to the East Hampton Town Board on Tuesday, the board signaled that it was ready to embrace the site’s restoration and conversion into an arts and nature center.

Mar 23, 2023

Police & Courts

It took four parking tickets and a week of close monitoring by traffic control officers, but a car with Tennessee license plates, which had been left on Main Street in Sag Harbor between 4 and 6 a.m. for several days in violation of the village code, was moved over the weekend after police finally made contact with its owner.

Mar 23, 2023

A Bronx man was charged Sunday morning in East Hampton Village with four misdemeanor counts of criminal possession of a weapon during a traffic stop on Pantigo Road at Methodist Lane.

Mar 23, 2023

Reflecting a trend among police agencies across the country, officers of the East Hampton Town and Sag Harbor Village Police Departments will soon be outfitted with body cameras thanks to grants received from New York State's Department of Criminal Justice Services.

Mar 16, 2023

Government

In the wake of the federal government’s announcement last week that utilities will be required to reduce levels of toxic “forever chemicals” in drinking water to almost zero, residents of Wainscott are using that news to press opposition to both the South Fork Wind farm and the proposed Wainscott Commercial Center.

Mar 23, 2023

The New York State Supreme Court has once again sided with property owners along a 4,000-foot stretch of Napeague oceanfront popularly known as Truck Beach, granting five property owners associations’ motions to dismiss separate complaints by East Hampton Town and the town trustees, along with a dozen fishermen.

Mar 23, 2023

For at least 50 years the property at 44 Three Mile Harbor Road has operated as a nightclub — Leo, Philippe, SL East, NV Tsunami, way back when a place called the Jag, and even before that Mellowmouth — but its owner wants to convert the 5,000-square-foot one-story stucco building into a mix of retail, office, and affordable housing units. The town planning board will hold a hearing on the proposal in April.

Mar 23, 2023

The effort to impose restrictions on aircraft at East Hampton Town Airport took another incremental step forward on Tuesday when consultants presented the town board with the scope for a draft environmental impact statement that reflects input from the public and the board.

Mar 23, 2023

Villages

Item of the Week: The John Howard Payne Party, 1935

Ruth Sterling Benjamin (1882-1957), far right in this photo from The Star’s archive, with five local girls at Home, Sweet Home for a John Howard Payne birthday celebration.

Mar 23, 2023

Holding Pattern for Wind Farm Power Cable

With a looming northeaster that brought abundant wind and rain this week, the sea-to-shore interconnection of the South Fork Wind farm’s onshore transmission cable with the submarine export cable that will link the wind farm with the electric grid would have to wait.

Mar 16, 2023

Item of the Week: From the Miller-Edwards Wedding

This ribboned wedding invitation from the Springs Historical Society collection heralded the marriage of Hiram Miller and Emma Edwards in Springs in 1887.

Mar 16, 2023

Arts

Adman in a Coma, Artist in a Calling

For former marketing executive Patrick J. Peters III, the silver lining of a traumatic struggle with long Covid was his life-changing discovery of salvation through painting.

Mar 23, 2023

Bridgehampton Chamber Music's spring concerts will feature the New York Philharmonic String Quartet, a program of piano for four hands, and a concert highlighting two violas.

Mar 23, 2023

A new play at Hampton Theatre Company dramatizes a real-life conflict between accuracy in journalism and literary license.

Mar 23, 2023

Nanette Carter will discuss her artwork at The Church, and two painters-in-residence will open their studios there.

Mar 24, 2023

Food

A Melange From Near and Far at L'Epicuriste

L’Epicuriste in Bridgehampton offers carefully selected speciality food items as well as tableware, kitchen items, flowers, vegetables, local honey, even artwork.

Mar 23, 2023

News for Foodies 03.23.23

The Parrish celebrates Art of the Brew, Loaves and Fishes has fresh sausage, Mediterranean cooking demo at Rogers Library, chili chowdown in Springs, C.S.A. programs at local farms, and more.

Mar 23, 2023

Riding With the Limestone Cowboys

Honest Man Hospitality Group’s Chimene Visser Macnaughton seeks out new wine regions and small producers who make "clean" wines and spirits. This dedication is reinforced in her wine dinners, which emphasize discovery and deliciousness.

Mar 15, 2023