Villages

Demonstrating a supply issue that dates back to 2008, Canadian grower’s first shipment to Fowler’s Garden Center had no larger trees, so it offered East Hampton Village smaller ones at a discount. Now it will provide larger trees of a more expensive variety for the same price. “We don’t do this to make money,” said Rick Fowler. “This is our way to give back to the community.”

East Hampton Village has big plans for the holiday season, including a tree-lighting at the Hook Mill sponsored by Prada and Santa arriving by helicopter in Herrick Park, but those tiny trees that went up last week? Not planned.

The abnormally low water table coupled with the spread of invasive species are combining to threaten the long-term health of the East End’s coastal plain ponds.

It’s hard to decouple the turkey from Thanksgiving, but long before we paired turkeys with mashed potatoes and stuffing and turned them into a national symbol, they were going about their business, hanging out in gangs, flipping leaves, and browsing the ground for nuts.

For lovers of bay scallops, hope gave way to disappointment for a fourth consecutive year, with scattered finds in East Hampton Town and New York State waters since they were opened to the annual harvest.

This Bonac Beachcomber came out the day before Thanksgiving in 1949, but instead of holiday festivities or football coverage, the focus was on a class debate and a 15th birthday party.

One day in 1972, “very little happened at the East Hampton Town Board’s unusually short meeting.”

After three weeks of fund-raising, an online auction dubbed Feed the East End raised more than $10,000 for food pantries in East Hampton, Sag Harbor, and Montauk; sponsorships boosted the total to over $15,000.

Santa has a brand-new helper this year. Her name is Ashley Anne Boer, she drives a Jeep Wrangler, and she just may have a solution to a perennial dilemma that shoppers face.

On the South Fork, it seems the moment a leaf falls to the ground it becomes a nuisance to be blown, corralled, and carted to a landfill. But leaving at least some of those leaves be can be healthy for your lawn and your other plantings.

A month ago, the New York Blood Center announced its fifth blood emergency of 2022. “We need 30 to 32 thousand units per month, but we’re collecting between 28 and 31 thousand,” Andrea Cefarelli, the senior vice president of the blood center, said.

This scrapbook is the work of several years and the hands of Elizabeth Agnew (1863-1955). Elizabeth’s father was Dr. Cornelius Rea Agnew (1830-1888), the first owner of Agnew Cottage, one of the Montauk Association houses.

The Jill, a 183-foot-long lift boat with jack-up legs of more than 300 feet, arrived at its position off the beach in Wainscott on Tuesday, where it is to remain for approximately three months and be used in construction of the South Fork Wind farm.

East Hampton Town has given its blessing to a second spat-on-shell oyster reef restoration project in Lake Montauk, proposed by the Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Back to the Bays program.

The surge in housing demand created by Covid and urbanites’ desire to have a safe retreat outside of the city has finally started to cool, according to the most recent report by Town and Country Real Estate. Rising interest rates and the rising cost of renovations due to a tight labor market and inflation are playing a role.

Reform Club, reform thy ways: That was the message Monday night at the Amagansett School, where the hamlet’s citizens advisory committee gathered for their regular monthly meeting — a big chunk of which was devoted to complaints about the boutique hotel’s hard-partying summertime affect and attendant parking and traffic problems.

It happened here, Star fans . . .

The Village of East Hampton will name a stretch of road next to Ina Garten's former Barefoot Contessa gourmet food store in honor of the culinary icon, who still owns the building.

Jonathan Baker (1853-1923) was born to Capt. Edward M. Baker and Rosalie Miller Baker three years before his father died in 1856. In October 1920, he became the newly incorporated East Hampton Village’s first board president, a role later known as mayor, serving until 1922.

Among the highlights of yore? The day the New York-style Deli-Maven, with seating for 60, came to town, its menu offering “53 overstuffed sandwiches.”

James Latham Sherrill Webb, a son of Dr. Sheppard Webb and Tania Elizabeth Emma Webb of East Hampton and East Setauket, and Meredith Ann Clavin, the daughter of Nancy and Charles Clavin of Miller Place, were married on Saturday at Mary Immaculate Catholic Church in Bellport.

The good news that Erica-Lynn and Alex Huberty received was that Mr. Huberty’s cancer — B-cell follicular lymphoma — is not terminal. But wrapped in that was also some bad news on the financial front.

People have increasingly taken note of Montauk Brewing Company's growing popularity, characterized by its always-packed tap room, cool takes on brews involving ingredients like watermelon and pumpkin, and buzzy media coverage. The international cannabis and alcohol company Tilray was among those paying attention, and on Monday, Tilray announced that it has bought the Montauk Brewing Company for an undisclosed sum.

Peter Ciaccia, who organized and directed New York Road Runner events for 20 years, including the TCS New York City Marathon that is to be run throughout the city’s five boroughs Sunday, will have two goals in mind on the Verrazano Bridge: crossing the 26.2-mile race’s finish line, and raising as much money as he can through his Need 2 Feed gofundme effort so that the Montauk Food Pantry can continue to feed more than 200 needy families and homebound people in that hamlet.

Saturday is National Drug Take Back Day, an initiative to help people safely dispose of unneeded medications, with collection sites planned in East Hampton and Southampton Towns.

Feed the East End 2022, a campaign to raise money for food pantries across the region, has kicked off a virtual silent auction featuring more than 75 prizes donated by local businesses and prominent community members.

Talk about the deadliest catch: A Rhode Island-based trawler fishing off Block Island on Oct. 26 hauled in an unexploded World War II-era depth charge that was later safely detonated by the United States Navy.

This broadside establishes Elisha Baldwin’s candidacy for county clerk as a member of the American Party in 1855. Baldwin (1821-1865) was at the time a Queens County resident and part of a long-established family there.

East Hampton Village is installing banners on village lampposts along Route 27 this week, celebrating local residents who were war veterans.

Wednesday is World Adoption Day, and Michael Watson and Aaron Cummings of Springs would like nothing more in the world than to adopt a baby. But the road to becoming a parent via adoption is rarely straightforward.