Early Sunday morning, it looked as if a small tornado had torn through the Montauk Green and the Montauk Artists Association Art Show. Instead, East Hampton Town police say the destruction — which wiped out the inventory of some participating artists — was caused by a drunken driver.
Accused of Kidnapping, Robbery, Petty Strikes a Deal
Supreme Court Justice Timothy P. Mazzei approved a plea bargain on Wednesday morning in the case of Darius Petty, 35, an East Hampton man accused of kidnapping and robbing three young men at knifepoint in the parking lot of the East Hampton Town Senior Center last September.
June 26, 2025
Police & Courts
He was “just out for a walk” on the night of June 18, a Wooded Oak Lane man told officers responding to reports of a suspicious person in the area, before admitting that he’d been going through his neighbors’ mailboxes.
Jun 26, 2025
Two S.U.V.s, one a Hyundai and the other a Mercedes, were badly damaged in a collision at the intersection of Stephen Hand’s Path and Potters Lane, off Huckleberry Lane in East Hampton, on the morning of June 20.
Jun 26, 2025
The attorney for the driver in a fatal Springs accident on June 15 confirmed on June 19 that the Suffolk County district attorney’s office had notified her that it would be convening a grand jury on upgraded charges the following day.
Jun 26, 2025
Water Warning at Ditch Plain Beach
While conditions had improved by Monday, last weekend, the Surfrider Foundation’s Eastern Long Island chapter, which partners with Concerned Citizens of Montauk and the Peconic Baykeeper in sampling and analyzing local waters, canceled an International Surfing Day meetup that was to happen that day at Ditch Plain Beach, citing alarmingly high levels of Enterococcus bacteria in the water.
Jun 26, 2025
Noise Over New Village Contractor Laws
The East Hampton Village Board was criticized at its meeting last week for not doing enough to communicate two new laws that have been ensnaring landscapers and contractors since the middle of May. One requires service workers to register annually with the village at a cost of $250. The other, a noise ordinance, shortens hours for certain landscaping and construction activities between May 15 and Sept. 15.
Jun 26, 2025
Government
East Hampton Town’s Democratic Party candidates launched their 2025 campaign on Monday with a gathering marked by gloomy assessments of Democrats’ status at the national level mixed with encouraging signs of resistance. At home, they enjoy a supermajority on the town board and among the town trustees, with some incumbents running unopposed for re-election.
Jun 26, 2025
The East Hampton Town Trustees will write a letter to the town board supporting the purchase of two parcels fronting Georgica Cove by the Peconic Land Trust, which is at present in contract, and the simultaneous sale of an easement to the town and to East Hampton Village to ensure their preservation in perpetuity.
Jun 26, 2025
The East Hampton Village Board voted to approve a $30.7 million budget for the next fiscal year that includes a tax increase of 1.28 percent for village residents.
Jun 26, 2025
The East Hampton Village Board has posted new dates for public hearings on a plan to trim term limits for the zoning board of appeals and the planning board from five years to three. Those hearings will now be held on July 2.
Jun 26, 2025
Arts
Animals Ascendant at The Church
An 18-foot-tall elephant balancing on its trunk, a horse made of mud and sticks, and a 12-foot spider are only three of the more than 50 animal sculptures assembled for "The Ark" at The Church in Sag Harbor.
Jul 3, 2025
LTV's Hamptons Summer Songbook by the Sea will kick off with the legendary vocalist Marilyn Maye performing "A 100th Birthday Tribute to Johnny Carson" — and, at 97, she's still going strong.
Jul 3, 2025
Thousands of art enthusiasts and 120 galleries and exhibitors will descend on Southampton for the four-day Hamptons Fine Art Fair.
Jul 3, 2025
Guild Hall will host a concert by Julian Lage, a guitar virtuoso, and Jorge Roeder, an acclaimed bassist, and the Gibney Dance Company will perform works by three prominent choreographers.
Jul 3, 2025
Villages
Item of the Week: To the Customs Master, 1801
This letter from Joseph Anthony & Co. to Henry Packer Dering exemplifies some of the responsibilities held by the customs master in Sag Harbor.
Springs Food Pantry Sees the Need, Addresses It
The last few years have presented challenges the Springs Food Pantry’s founders could not have anticipated when it was first established. More than 600 families are now registered to receive the assistance it provides, and an average of 355 families are served each week.
A Newsletter on Being a Jew in Today’s America
One of the essential roles of religion, Rabbi Jan Uhrbach of the Bridge Shul in Bridgehampton said this week, is to “help us hold onto our humanity, and remind us of the higher values that go beyond money and power and position and all of those things, in a time when the values that I hold dear are not only being violated, they’re being rejected as values.”
Sports
Jul 3, 2025
