"Our lifelong friend Tommy Hupalowsky can use your help right now," Robin Goetz wrote on a GoFundMe fund-raising page last month. Two hurricanes and the loss of his wife have left Mr. Hupalowsky, a former longtime employee of Ben Krupinski Builders, facing difficulty in Englewood, Fla.
In this Star photo by Eileen Bock we see a helicopter grounded below the Montauk Manor on the Montauk Playhouse lawn, as someone from ABC News hoped to catch Perry Duryea Jr. at the polls in his native hamlet.
The last time East Hampton Village updated its comprehensive plan, in 2002, the region had been freshly impacted by 9/11, Amazon was in its infancy, and the iPhone hadn't yet been invented. While a lot has changed, as they say, much has stayed the same, including many of the issues facing the village. Issues identified in the 2002 plan — traffic, teardowns, and loss of businesses that served the local population — persist in 2024.
A community vote to raise money for construction is on the horizon for the Montauk School District, which recently released the estimated tax impact for a bond somewhere between $40 and $45 million.
This week's lineup of activities for children and teens includes robotics, taste-test challenges, a Mario Kart tournament, sports activities, and more.
A woman at the Amagansett train station reported “an older man making eye contact” with her on Friday evening and walking around her car. Eventually, she told police, he attempted to open her locked car door. Police could not find him.
I can most certainly relate to the phrase “old habits are hard to break,” especially as it pertains to bay scallops. No matter how much I read year after year about the dire predictions for the five-month scallop season, which opened at daybreak on Monday morning in state waters, I still make plans to be on my Rock Water with six iron dredges in tow on opening day.
A writer looks back at one of the most iconic pickup basketball games on the South Fork, a long-running Sunday morning affair that drew all sorts of players from all walks of life.
Two months after it was originally to have been played, the East End men’s 7-on-7 soccer final was finally contested at East Hampton Village’s Herrick Park on Oct. 30, with Maidstone Market, the league’s perennial power, emerging as a 2-1 winner over Tortorella Pools.
A Prohibition-era rumrunning arrest, the death of an important pet fish, election results from another era, and more in this week's look back at the East Hampton Star archive.
