Villages

Three of East Hampton Village's assistant beach managers resigned their posts on Thursday, the same day that a report detailing female lifeguards' allegations of sexual harassment became public.

After growing up only 10 blocks from each other in Manhattan, Francesca Holland Crane and Noah Raimi Drapacz “had countless close encounters over the years,” Ms. Crane wrote, before “they finally found each other on Christmas Day 2015,” thanks to the dating and social networking app Bumble.

The Amagansett Farmers Market was a buzzing hangout for decades, from the 1970s through the 1990s, but after closing for a few years and then bouncing from owner to owner for a while (Zabar’s, then the Amagansett Food Institute), it lost its mojo.

As time passes, the landscape often changes. While there are certainly places in East Hampton that seem frozen in time, most would argue that much is different, and it’s fascinating to look back at what’s come and gone. Take, for example, the history of a simple storefront.

In a move long anticipated by its supporters, the Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station on Atlantic Avenue has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

To mark the 100th anniversary of the incorporation of East Hampton Village, a series of celebrations will take place in the summer of 2020, Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. announced at Friday’s board meeting.

Bridgeton Holdings, a corporation with an expansive portfolio of office, retail, hospitality, and residential properties across the country, bought the 96-room beachfront Atlantic Terrace hotel in Montauk last month. It recently opened Journey East Hampton on Pantigo Road, an upscale recreation of the Inn at East Hampton, a two-story complex that had bare bones amenities. 

Murf’s Backstreet Tavern in Sag Harbor is on the market for $3.5 million, according to Lee Minetree, a broker at Saunders and Associates.

Carolyn Munaco, a Hampton Bays artist and teacher, advocates for clean local beaches, often picking up litter, and she spreads awareness about pollution through her art, which sometimes is made of garbage collected during beach cleanups. She also promotes environmental events on social media, posting images of garbage and her artwork.

As part of the Long Island Shellfish Restoration Project that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced last September, a two-year effort to raise four million clams in Lake Montauk has launched with the installation of two floating upweller systems at Gurney’s Yacht Club in Montauk.

Construction of retaining walls under the railroad trestles on Accabonac Road and North Main Street in East Hampton Village, which began earlier this month, is expected to continue until spring 2019.

There is almost never a time when Fierro’s isn’t busy, and if you’ve been there, you can understand why. The pizzeria, which celebrates its 35th anniversary in East Hampton this week, has survived and thrived not only on the strength of its popular pies — served 362 days a year — but on the amicability of its owners, John and Al Fierro.

Hilaria Baldwin will host Linda Mayes, M.D., of the Yale Child Study Center on Wednesday in the first in a series of talks on parenting presented by the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center and the East Hampton Library.

Residents of Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest, and Ninevah Beach, predominately black neighborhoods popularly known as SANS, cheered when they learned on Saturday that their communities are eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.

Visiting hours for Alicia Nicole Engstrom will be held on Friday from 10 a.m. to noon at Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton.

A severely decomposed humpback whale washed ashore on Napeague last Thursday morning, the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society reported.

The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs ­­could lose $10,000 in state funding and take a hit to other revenue streams because the Town of East Hampton has mandated a switch to visits by appointment only, which went into effect yesterday.

The Montauk Observatory has a number of events coming up this month for those interested in stars, planets, and galaxies far, far away

The fifth annual benefit for All Star Code, an organization that helps African-American and Latino boys attain the skills, networks, and mind-sets to succeed in computer science and coding, happens on Saturday evening at the East Hampton residence of Loida Lewis.

The family-friendly East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society summer fair returns for the 122nd year on Saturday, offering live music, plenty of food, the traditional Playland children’s area, shopping for thrift store clothing and toys, and a carousel.

The roundabout being constructed at the intersection of Route 114 and Buell and Toilsome Lanes in East Hampton Village will not be finished until early fall

’Tis the season to construct a swimming pool, if the applications before the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals on Friday are any indication.

The marches and rallies that have sprung up since Donald J. Trump was elected president have brought together disaffected Americans who in the past would have been called liberal thinkers and who for the most part have supported movements for marriage equality, women’s rights, gay rights, and L.G.B.T.Q. rights.

A small procession of people, some wearing stickers that read “Protect the Long Pond Greenbelt,” voiced concern at a Sag Harbor Village Board public hearing on Tuesday evening about the board’s proposed use of a 24-acre site off the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike as an impound yard for vehicles seized by its Police Department.

Aside from its collection of historical materials, the Long Island Collection possesses quite a bit of literature by Long Island authors. The portrait at right is of George Sterling, a poet and playwright who was recognized in the San Francisco Bay Area as one of the greatest American poets of the early 20th century.

Montauk has changed a lot in the last decade, and Tesla, Elon Musk’s top-of-the-line electric car company, has taken notice. The company is hoping to build charging stations at several spots around the hamlet, among them Kirk Park Beach and the town parking lot behind White’s on the Plaza — servicing not only its own vehicles but other electric cars as well.

The Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center’s Thinking Forward Lecture Series, which is presented in partnership with Guild Hall, will feature “Equality in the Hamptons: Burying Our Heads in the Sand?”

Residents of Flaggy Hole Road in Springs who frequent the Gardiner’s Bay beach at Maidstone Park were surprised on June 25 to see East Hampton Town Parks Department workers installing a fence there, perpendicular to the beach, and complained that not only would the fence stop them from parking at the beach but also destroy their sunset views.

Philip Cammann, formerly of Bridgehampton, and Cathy Taldone of Shoreham were married last Thursday at the Old Field Club in Setauket. The Hon. Linda J. Kevins, a Suffolk County Supreme Court justice, officiated.

After losing his first bid, by just five votes, for a seat on the Sag Harbor Village Board in 2017, Thomas Gardella, the former chief of the village’s Fire Department, had a much happier election night on June 19 when he captured one of two seats on the board in an uncontested election.