“With this new, even-year election law, I am going to start campaigning for 2026, starting tomorrow,” East Hampton Town Supervisor Kathee Burke-Gonzalez told her supporters on election night, after winning an uncontested race.
Target: If You Build It, Will They Come?
Interior renovations have begun at the Bridgehampton Commons Target store, which is taking over the space occupied by Kmart for 25 years. Construction workers were digging rectangular pits into the ground last week, with work lights mounted to metal framework above them. The store is expected to open next fall.
November 6, 2025
Police & Courts
An “older white man wearing a green hoodie and jeans” was wandering around his backyard, an Abraham’s Path resident reported Saturday. While an officer was en route, the resident called back to say that the man was a gardener.
Nov 6, 2025
With two months to go until the East Hampton Town Police Department takes over the lion’s share of emergency dispatching responsibilities from East Hampton Village, questions linger about the cost of the transition and how the town department will handle the new workload.
Oct 30, 2025
Rigged, illegal, and high-stakes poker games have been held in recent years in various locales, including East Hampton, according to a federal indictment filed on Oct. 9.
Oct 30, 2025
A Facelift for Historic Carl Fisher House
Now a locally designated historic landmark owned by East Hampton Town, the Carl Fisher House will celebrate its centennial next year with a massive facelift, courtesy of about $3.7 million in community preservation funds.
Nov 6, 2025
Dredging Begins in Montauk Inlet
The Army Corps of Engineers’ dredging project in Lake Montauk to restore safe navigation to the inlet there starts this week. The Oyster Bay, mechanical dredge and barge, and supporting equipment have arrived, marking the start of mobilization.
Nov 6, 2025
Government
The turmoil of President Trump’s second term has reached even East Hampton Town, where the author and journalist Michael Wolff is proving to be more of a gadfly than ever.
Nov 6, 2025
The uncertainty surrounding Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits — whether beneficiaries would receive half of their monthly benefit in November, the full amount, or none at all — has volunteers at East Hampton Town’s food pantries “tamping down the panic.”
Nov 6, 2025
Both incumbent Democrats on the East Hampton Town Board, Cate Rogers and Ian Calder-Piedmonte, held onto their seats Tuesday night, warding off a challenge from J.P. Foster on the Republican line. Supervisor Kathee Burke-Gonzalez ran unopposed for her second term.
Nov 5, 2025
The East Hampton Town Board has appointed Russell Young, an ordinance enforcement officer in the Code Enforcement Department since 2022, to be the department's new director.
Nov 4, 2025
Arts
Festival of Preservation at Sag Cinema
The Sag Harbor Cinema’s Festival of Preservation will feature an eclectic program of more than 20 films, including documentaries, musicals, westerns, animation, dramas, and experimental films.
Nov 6, 2025
Coming to The Church in Sag Harbor are an eclectic musical recital, a journal writing workshop, and an open night studio for all creatives.
Nov 6, 2025
The Met: Live in HD will return to Guild Hall with Puccini’s “La Boheme,” and Site-Specific Dances will perform a new dance-theater work there based on letters between John Cage and Merce Cunningham.
Nov 6, 2025
LongHouse gets illuminated for winter, “Harmonic Rhapsodies” in Montauk, poetry, art, and bossa nova in Bridgehampton, jazz at the Masonic Temple, and an open call in Quogue.
Nov 6, 2025
Villages
Veterans Tell War Stories
USA Warrior Stories, a nonprofit based in East Hampton, will honor three generations of veterans here on Saturday from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Southampton Arts Center.
Hampton Library Renovation on Schedule
The Hampton Library is undergoing its first major renovation since a $6 million expansion in 2009, though updates this time around are focused on reconfiguring the structure, expanding certain rooms, and replacing outdated equipment.
On the Wing: In Birding, Not Knowing Is Okay
Once upon a time, birders might arm themselves with a simple pad and pencil before they tromped off into the woods. When birding you could touch the sacred, experienced wonder, get lost on a loop trail. Not knowing was stimulating. With Merlin, that stimulus is gone.
