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For Some Town Trustees, Truck Beach Grievances Persist

Two East Hampton Town Trustees vented their continued frustration with the town board to their colleagues recently, exasperated over being found in civil and criminal contempt for failing to prevent vehicles from using a 4,000-foot stretch of Napeague beach that a judge had ruled was privately owned. 

Jul 30, 2026

Officials Want Battery Facility Closed

“We’ve sunk nine wells and we’re going to be sinking more,” Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine said of the county's investigations into the origin of the contamination that caused two Suffolk County Water Authority wells to be taken offline. “These findings are off the charts!”

Jul 30, 2026

Government

There is no timeline for the gravel lot off Bridge Street to reopen. That means approximately 93 parking spots have been suddenly removed from the village in the height of the summer season.

Jul 30, 2026

Representative Nick LaLota, who announced last month that he was cutting off East Hampton Town and Village from federal community project funding over their adoption of laws prohibiting cooperation with the federal government in civil immigration enforcement, is not letting up in his threats.

Jul 23, 2026

Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine announced last week that the county intends to buy the 822-acre island, largely untouched by development except for the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, and described it as an environmental jewel.

Jul 23, 2026

The time for America’s testing has come, Judge Michael Luttig told a rapt audience at Guild Hall in East Hampton on Monday. “In Lincoln’s terms,” he said, “we are going to determine, in this calendar year, whether this nation, or any nation so conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, can long endure.” 

Jul 23, 2026

Arts

Alexander Reinwald: Art and the Automobile

Alexander Reinwald is an artist, an in-demand automobile design and restoration specialist, and the founder of Gallery 851 in Springs, which will open a show of work by the celebrated artist Joe Zucker.

Jul 30, 2026

A weekend focused on Black storytelling, performance, and community will feature a variety of programming at the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center, The Church, Guild Hall, and EHP Resort.

Jul 30, 2026

A new production of “Dear Evan Hansen,” the winner of six Tony Awards, including best musical, is for “anyone who has been a teenager, is a teenager, or has a teenager,” according to Scott Schwartz, the director.

Jul 30, 2026

Up next in LTV’s Hamptons Summer Songbook series are Barbara Fasano and Eric Comstock singing Porter, Rodgers and Hart, Sondheim, and more, while Laurence Maslon provides commentary and cocktails.

Jul 30, 2026

Villages

An Orca Off Montauk?

A widely circulated social media post last week from Craig O’Connell, host of Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, raised the possibility that an orca was spotted 10 nautical miles off the tip of Long Island. 

Jul 30, 2026

Item of the Week: The Old Hook Mill by Hamilton King

This depiction of Hook Mill was hand-painted on a ceramic tile by Hamilton King sometime before 1950 at the request of Maude Sherwood Jewett, a fellow artist who founded the Tile Painters Club of East Hampton.

Jul 30, 2026

Vets Said They Felt the Love at Soldier Ride

“This has been the best experience I’ve ever had. I’ve been telling people, ‘I feel more welcome now than when I actually came home,’ ” said Sabrina Mohammed, a veteran who took part in Soldier Ride the Hamptons on July 18.

Jul 23, 2026

Food

News for Foodies 07.30.26

A wine special at Topside on Gosman’s Dock, an innovative brew from Kidd Squid at Almond restaurant, and a new outdoor dinner spot on Shelter Island.

Jul 30, 2026

News for Foodies 07.16.26

An acclaimed chef is up next in Guild Hall’s Stirring the Pot, a panel on Long Island wines at the Hampton Library, Navy Beach launches Sunday brunch, and catering-to-go from Art of Eating.

Jul 16, 2026

News for Foodies 07.09.26

Omakase is coming to the East End at LDV at the Maidstone and Gurney’s in Montauk, and Lion’s Nook is open at the former Rowdy Hall.

Jul 9, 2026