The United States House of Representatives passed President Trump's spending bill Wednesday night, sending it along to the Senate. In it is a quadrupling of the cap on the State and Local Tax deduction, known colloquially as the SALT deduction, which Representative Nick LaLota said in a press release early Thursday is "a significant win for Long Island taxpayers."
New East Hampton Emergency Department Is Open
On the eve of Memorial Day weekend, the Stony Brook East Hampton Emergency Department has opened at 400 Pantigo Place. It will operate 24 hours a day, seven day a week, 365 days a year, including holidays.
May 22, 2025
Police & Courts
East Hampton Village accepted a SaveStation — a public-access automatic external defibrillator — on Tuesday afternoon, following donations from the Tintle family to the Louis J. Acompora Memorial Foundation. The station, which resembles a huge fire alarm, is now hanging at the Reutershan parking lot restrooms, next to the softball field at Herrick Park.
May 22, 2025
A pool heater on Miankoma Lane erupted in flames on Sunday evening and the homeowner called police, who shut off the power and gas line to the heater and called the Fire Department to extinguish the remaining flames.
May 22, 2025
A 68-year-old East Hampton woman was arrested in Sag Harbor Village on Saturday after driving into two teenage traffic control officers who were attempting to give her a summons.
May 22, 2025
Montauk Playhouse Renovations Are Almost Done
“This is a town project that’s on time and under budget,” said Maureen Cahill, a board member of the Montauk Community Playhouse Foundation, where a new aquatic and cultural center is on track to open before summer’s end. “It’s a really good model of town, state, and private funding that put this together. Without those three it doesn’t work.”
May 22, 2025
Empire Wind 1 Can Now Proceed
The whiplash resulting from policies announced and quickly reversed by the Trump administration continued this week with the surprise announcement that construction of the Empire Wind 1 offshore wind farm, which was halted last month by a stop-work order issued by the secretary of the Department of the Interior, could resume.
May 22, 2025
Government
Nearly 200 “small cell” towers, each 42 feet tall, will be deployed across East Hampton Town, with over 150 slotted for Northwest Woods and Springs alone. The large majority, 129, could be operational by the end of the year.
May 22, 2025
Trevor Darrell has been appointed East Hampton Town’s prosecutor, and Brittany Toledano has been hired as deputy town attorney, both effective as of Monday, according to a statement issued from Town Hall this week.
May 22, 2025
At an otherwise quiet East Hampton Town Board meeting, a decision about a special permit for surfing lessons in Montauk drew the most attention.
May 22, 2025
The East Hampton Town Litter Action Committee offered several recommendations for how littering could be reduced: an anti-litter campaign, a code amendment that would strengthen rental registry trash-hauling requirements, engaging with the State Department of Transportation about improving litter removal along Route 27, and adding temporary signage, in English and Spanish, near recently cleaned areas and at the town transfer stations.
May 22, 2025
Arts
Love Is in the Air at Bay Street
Bay Street will open its summer season with "Bob & Jean: A Love Story," the playwright Robert Schenkkan's intimate portrait of his parents inspired by their letters written while separated during World War II.
May 22, 2025
Conga Cartel is a tight-knit multigenerational unit whose repertoire spans more than 50 years of popular music, including salsa, funk, Latin, and other genres.
May 22, 2025
The Hamptons Festival of Music's Sunset Serenades will bring the music of Vivaldi, Bellini, Dvorak, and Mozart to churches in Springs, East Hampton, Sag Harbor, and Bridgehampton.
May 22, 2025
In conjunction with a screening of Fellini's "The White Sheik," the Sag Harbor Cinema will open an exhibition of paintings by Sabina Streeter inspired by Italian cinema of the '50s.
May 22, 2025
Villages
Honoring the Fallen for Memorial Day
Memorial Day observances in East Hampton begin on Sunday when members of American Legion Post 419 and the Everit Albert Herter Veterans of Foreign Wars Post will travel by bus to cemeteries from Wainscott to Montauk to pay tribute to buried veterans, with rifle squad ceremonies at each one.
East Hampton’s Downtown Businesses Are Ready
New businesses in the village range from a Rolex at the old Oddfellow's Hall and Tom Brady's sports collectible shop, CardVault, to restaurants, takeout spots, and the newly revamped Hedges Inn.
White Sharks’ Return a Good Sign
A certain New York City tabloid did its best to sensationalize drone footage captured this month depicting a great white shark a few hundred feet off the Montauk shoreline, but the sighting is neither surprising nor cause for concern, a local expert insisted.
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Food
News for Foodies 05.22.25
New Italian pop-up in East Hampton, spring specials at Almond, summer wine classes at Park Place, Tusk Bar comes to Moby's, restaurant reset at Solé East.
May 22, 2025
News for Foodies 05.15.25
The Beacon opens for the season, happy hour at Bostwick's on the Harbor, brunch at the Bird in Montauk, tequila dinner at Fresno.
May 15, 2025
News for Foodies 05.08.25
Mother's Day brunches are being offered by Fresno, Nick and Toni's, Highway, 1770 House, Bell and Anchor, Navy Beach, Village Bistro, Dopo La Spiaggia, Dopo Argento, and Bostwick's.
May 8, 2025