Long before the name “Rowdy Hall” was adopted by a popular East Hampton Village bar and eatery (now in Amagansett), it was a boarding house: Mrs. Harry Hamlin’s Rowdy Hall. The building, now a single-family house, still stands at 111 Egypt Lane, although currently it’s floating, suspended six feet above a hole. When it’s lowered again, it will be on a new foundation.
The Candy Kitchen opened in Bridgehampton on May 2, 1925. Thus, the year 2025 marks a whole century in business for the restaurant, bought by the Stavropoulos family in the 1940s and owned since 1981 by Gus Laggis. Today it is managed by his two daughters and son-in-law.
“That was a journey down a rabbit hole,” Ed Johann, a member of the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals, said after an exhaustive discussion regarding the redevelopment of the Devon Yacht Club split the board last week.
Reports of electrical outages from Montauk to Wainscott, and all the way up through Shelter Island and the North Fork, rolled in on Thursday beginning shortly after 10 a.m.
For Karen Theiss the job of school nurse in Montauk has always been about creating a safe environment for children. “It’s not just fixing,” she said by phone last week, “it’s making better.” Ms. Theiss will retire from her longtime position at the end of June.
The nonprofit advocacy group led a workshop for tenants at the East Hampton Village manufactured home community on Oakview Highway this week so residents can advocate for themselves "to make sure it’s healthier, safer, that you’re able to be in a place that has good roads, regular electric, heat, septic, water,” Minerva Perez, OLA’s executive director, said.
For Eagle Boat 17, thick Atlantic fog off East Hampton spelled disaster on May 19, 1922, as it was en route from the naval base at Norfolk, Va., to New London, Conn.
Police responded to a drunken brawl on Rolling Woods Court in Wainscott late last Thursday night. A fight between two men had spilled over into a driveway. One of the two, bleeding from a punch in the face, pushed the other to the ground, "scratching his rib cage," according to the report.
As many as 40 burglar alarms were triggered across both residential and commercial properties in East Hampton Town last week, in some places more than once in 24 hours.
A driver claimed that icy roads led to a crash, but police said he had failed a roadside sobriety test. He sustained a head injury with minor bleeding, they said, while his passenger was found to be semiconscious.
