Library Budget a ‘Yes’ in Montauk
The Montauk Library’s 2025-26 operating budget passed 93 to 16.
Item of the Week: The 1964 Edwards Theater Fire
This photo from The Star’s archive shows firemen fighting flames hidden behind the facade of the Edwards Theater, which was destroyed.
Get Your Baskets Ready, It's Egg Hunt Time
The Easter Bunny will be making appearances at egg hunts at the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton, the downtown Montauk green, the East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society headquarters, and the Amagansett Youth Park on Saturday.
Springs Notebook: Celebrating Down Syndrome Day
The Springs School joined people around the world in celebrating World Down Syndrome Day on March 21. The global awareness day has been observed by the United Nations since 2012 and is represented by the colors blue and yellow.
On the Police Logs 04.10.25
Ticketed for an open container Friday night on Springs-Fireplace Road, a man walked behind the squad car and began urinating on a tree in plain sight of the officer. When the officer approached him, the man shoved the ticket at him and ran away.
Two Drunken Driving Charges
A driver who sustained an injury to his shoulder in an accident on the evening of April 2 was charged afterward with misdemeanor drunken driving.
Cocaine Found in a Cadillac
A vial with 1.17 grams of a “white powdery substance” was allegedly found on the driver of a 2019 Cadillac Escalade on Sunday. A “multi-drug” test determined the substance to be cocaine, police said.
Eunice Golden, Pioneering Artist
Eunice Golden, a pioneering feminist artist, writer, and lecturer who over six decades created aggressively visceral images of male sexuality from a woman’s perspective, died last Thursday at her East Hampton residence and studio after a short illness. She was 98.
Joseph Santacroce
Joseph Santacroce, a retired carpenter, Air Force veteran, and native of Sag Harbor, died on March 28 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. He was 93.
John Tusa
John Tusa of East Hampton, who had worked as a community advocate and activist for most of his professional career, including many years as an addiction therapist at the Family Service League here, died in Southampton last Thursday at the age of 91.