The sole bid that the Army Corps of Engineers received to dredge the Montauk Inlet as part of the long-awaited Lake Montauk Harbor navigation improvement project was well over the anticipated price and left the federal government $1.1 million short. East Hampton Town opted this week fill the funding gap with money received through its host-community agreement with South Fork Wind.
9/11 Memorial at Hook Mill
Thursday evening at 6 the East Hampton Town Fire Chiefs Association will hold a memorial service at the Hook Mill green to mark the day and the many losses that resulted.
September 11, 2025
Police & Courts
Complaints about salespeople “attempting to distribute handbills” and “entering private yards and porches” have been appearing in the police logs since June, but the volume of complaints increased in the run-up to Labor Day: a young man, dressed in black with “Ecoshield” branding, often on an electric scooter, traveling door to door trying to get residents to sign up for the extermination service.
Sep 4, 2025
Sag Harbor Village police were called to the American Hotel at around 10 p.m. on Friday, following a report of a group of men “causing a disturbance” in the lobby.
Sep 4, 2025
Most of the charges against a Latham, N.Y., man who appeared in East Hampton Town Justice Court last week stem from an incident on May 25, when he allegedly fled from a town police officer who was conducting a traffic stop on Montauk Highway in Amagansett.
Sep 4, 2025
A Further Assault on Wind Power
Eighteen months after Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that “Today, at long last, we flip the switch and turn on the future,” the Trump administration is systematically switching that future off in favor of the past, in the form of fossil-fuel energy.
Sep 4, 2025
East Hampton Mayor May Run for Supervisor
East Hampton Village Mayor Jerry Larsen, who is rumored to be mulling a 2026 run for East Hampton Town supervisor, said last week that he had not “made a final decision” and won’t do so until after the election this November. Supervisor Kathee-Burke Gonzalez, a Democrat, is running unopposed on this year’s ballot. When she wins, however, it will be only for a one-year term because of a change in the state election calendar.
Sep 4, 2025
Government
A lawsuit and a countersuit between the two architects behind R2 Architecture, the venture that designed the East Hampton Town senior citizens center planned on Abraham's Path in Amagansett, have further delayed the long-stalled project and could result in cost increases for the roughly $30 million project.
Sep 3, 2025
A paramedic who was employed by East Hampton Village has sued the village along with the village’s fire and emergency medical services administrator, Suffolk County, the medical director of the county’s emergency medical services division, and the Montauk Fire District’s medical director following his suspension in the wake of a 2024 call for medical assistance in East Hampton’s Northwest Woods.
Aug 28, 2025
Two competing narratives have emerged from the East Hampton Town Tax Receiver’s Office after four of its five employees abruptly left the department a month ago.
Aug 28, 2025
A group of six neighbors who own properties adjacent to and near 370 and 372 Further Lane in Amagansett have had their eyes on a new hedge that blocks views of those properties. In June they sent a letter to the town board and the town attorney letting them know that if they didn’t do something, they would be held liable.
Aug 28, 2025
Arts
A Multimedia ‘Carmen’ at Bay Street
A multimedia show from Divaria Productions celebrates the 150th anniversary of Bizet's "Carmen" with opera, dance, and zarzuela, an operetta in Spanish.
Sep 11, 2025
The Hamptons International Film Festival announces its closing night and Centerpiece films as well as 18 Spotlight selections.
Sep 11, 2025
A new documentary on Garland Jeffreys illuminates the career and music of an artist lauded by Laurie Anderson, Bruce Springsteen, and Lou Reed.
Sep 11, 2025
HIFF has partnered with the Southampton Playhouse to extend its footprint into the Southampton community.
Sep 11, 2025
Villages
A Loaded HarborFest Weekend
HarborFest 2025 will be taking over Sag Harbor this weekend, with events and activities planned throughout the village both Saturday and Sunday.
Royalty Rides Into Horse Show on a Mission
Her Royal Highness Princess Margarita de Bourbon de Parme of the Netherlands was at the Hampton Classic Horse Show on Friday to learn all she could about American forward-style riding in an effort to popularize the hunter-jumper technique in Europe.
Kid Finds Humongous Oyster
It almost looked like a dinner plate, Tim Miller said this week of the oyster his niece, Adelynn O’Shea, found while the family was boating near Three Mile Harbor.
