Villages

“The beginning of forever starts with a yes.” So said Steven Thorsen in announcing the engagement of his daughter Elise Suzanne Thorsen to Michael Ryan Fresa.

Sarah Amaden will be stepping down as a member of the East Hampton Village Board, effective after the Sept. 26 meeting.

With its 34th Largest Clam Contest just a few weeks away, the East Hampton Town Trustees are stepping up preparations for the friendly competition, community get-together, and tasting.

The volume seen here, from the historical records of East Hampton Town, is an original copy of the legal code established by James, Duke of York, later King James II of England.

John Trentacoste of East Hampton has spent the last 20 years as a professional property management problem-solver. The work is varied, complex, and unending.

Imagine walking into the movies, buying popcorn, and waiting for your movie to start, but there’s a catch — you don’t know what will play. Such is Regal’s Monday Mystery Movies at the East Hampton Cinema.

Take a Star-style trip down Memory Lane, won’t you?

Buffie Johnson (1912-2006), a popular painter, was never quite accepted into the high-end art scene here, which she called “subtly anti-female.”

The East Hampton Aviation Association will hold its sixth Just Plane Fun Day at East Hampton Town Airport on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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.

“I want to continue to grow the church, and not just grow in numbers, but grow in love and in spiritual wisdom,” said the Rev. Trevon Fergerson, the newest addition to the Calvary Baptist Church family and, at 25, its youngest-ever pastor.

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.

At the turn of the millennium, Robert David Lion Gardiner and his estranged niece, Alexandra Creel Goelet, appeared in court in a disagreement over upzoning the family’s privately held Gardiner’s Island. And more of consequence from our past coverage.

Julian and Barbara Neski’s 1964 Chalif House on Terbell Lane in East Hampton has recently come on the market for $11 million-plus. The house is historically important, but given the times, the value of a one-acre plot, and its location in the village’s estate section, it’s likely to be torn down.

Two of Edith Parsons’s midcentury hooked rugs, one depicting scenes of East Hampton and another showing a map of Long Island, can now be seen at Village Hall and Home, Sweet Home, following her daughter’s donation.

On March 13, 1851, Henry Thomas Dering wrote from Connecticut to his older sister, Frances Mary Dering, in Sag Harbor, inquiring about someone named Hagar. But who was Hagar?

The East Hampton Town Trustees and Suffolk County have advised the public that a bloom of toxic cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, has been detected in Georgica Pond, posing a threat to public health.

To book a beach table this Saturday, during Labor Day weekend, groups must spend a minimum of $5,000. A table on the deck this weekend costs a minimum of $10,000. Along with good music, a great view, and a beautiful crowd, that might be part of the appeal.

Two lifeguards, “Dr.” Sam John and Wilmot Baker, notched their 18th save at the Maidstone bathing beach a hundred years ago. Plus much more for you news junkies and history buffs.

“You hear them before you see them,” Nick Lombardo, a fifth-year lifeguard at Indian Wells Beach in Amagansett, said. A thundering rumble, a vibration in the chest; when the Air National Guard 106th Rescue Wing's military aircraft fly by “the whole beach looks up.” But what are these immense machines, and what are they doing?

Amistad Week, commemorating the slave ship that was seized off Montauk in 1839 and featuring a series of events in the hamlet dedicated to history, art, and community, begins next week.

Did you know East Hampton once hosted the Hampton Classic Horse Show? This Dan Rattiner map shows the layout at Dune Alpin Farm in 1979.

A new book — “Memories of Gosman’s Dock, by the Help” — is a love letter to the local institution Gosman’s used to be, before it changed ownership last fall.

The day Stephen Talkhouse, the man, landed at the East Hampton Library — his portrait by Charles Day Hunt, anyway. And more coverage from our deep and storied past.

At the Montauk Lighthouse, a national historic landmark, the Third New York Regiment will show off their Revolutionary War uniforms and accouterments, and the Kings of the Coast Pirates will perform. Downtown, the Montauk Artists Association is holding its second art show and sale of the summer.

A senior scientist spots only 20 humpback whales this season here, down from 121 at this point in 2024. But we were spoiled: Last year was an aberration.

At the Clamshell Foundation’s annual Sandcastle Contest at Atlantic Avenue Beach in Amagansett on Saturday, there were surprisingly few castles. Instead, builders of all ages worked together to create all sorts of other unique designs. 

Service was paused at Gosman’s Topside, Inlet Cafe, and Clam Bar restaurants on Friday afternoon so the blessing of good health for Kate Hobbes could be celebrated by the tight-knit staff.

This East Hampton Star archive snapshot of Frederica Gallatin (1913-2003) on the beach at the Maidstone Club depicts what a beach day in the 1930s would look like for young women in the summer colony.

Robert Hefner and Kay Spear Gibson had been searching for some time for a suitable tribute to honor Isabel (Min) Spear Hefner, his wife and her sister, who died in 2023 of breast cancer. When they found an auction listing for a painting by Mary Nimmo Moran they “instantly knew” it would be the perfect way to memorialize Min’s “beauty, her incredible bravery.”