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.
Westbound Lanes of Shinnecock Canal Bridge Are Reopened
The two westbound lanes of Sunrise Highway over the Shinnecock Canal Bridge reopened in time for evening rush hour Tuesday, according to a statement released by a spokesman for the New York State Department of Transportation. Additional work will continue Wednesday.
November 4, 2025
Police & Courts
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
The shaving cream vandal struck again over the weekend, this time spraying the stuff around the interior and exterior of the men’s restroom in the Reutershan parking lot downtown Saturday night.
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 federal Army Corps of Engineers’ Lake Montauk harbor dredging project to restore safe navigation to the inlet is commencing this week. The Oyster Bay, a 144-foot-by-60-foot mechanical dredge and barge, and supporting equipment have arrived, marking the start of mobilization.
Nov 6, 2025
Government
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
Democratic incumbents and Republican challengers ponder East Hampton’s waterways and environment.
Oct 30, 2025
The East Hampton Town Planning Board reviewed and applauded a “substantially revised site plan” for Project Most’s headquarters that saves the historic Neighborhood House on Three Mile Harbor Road rather than demolishing it, as previously planned.
Oct 30, 2025
It’s big, it’s controversial, it’s before the town planning powers that be.
Oct 30, 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
Halloween in the Villages
Trick-or-treating on Friday? Here are a few spots to add to your circuit.
Network of Advocates Keeps Eyes on ICE
A discussion hosted by Progressive East End Reformers laid bare the impacts of ICE agents searching for undocumented immigrants, a dragnet that across the country has snared multiple United States citizens and immigrants in the process of attaining legal status.
Interfaith Leaders Offer Hope in Tough Times
“The aim here is for us to have the differences, vocalize them, and for us to be patient and understand where they’re coming from,” said Dr. Asma Rashid, a co-host with Jim Vrettos of an interfaith disussion on creating unity in an age that feels increasingly divisive and isolating.
