Bits and Pieces 08.28.25
Melissa Errico, a Broadway actress and singer, to perform at the Southampton Arts Center, classical, jazz, and klezmer concert coming to Shelter Island.
News for Foodies 08.28.25
Pete Wells, former New York Times restaurant critic, comes to Guild Hall, South Fork Bakery operates a new cafe at the Rogers Memorial Library, and Feniks opens in Southampton.
On the Police Logs 08.21.25
A report of “a suspicious subject sitting in the woods” led officers to a man seated on a large rock off Hand’s Creek Road. He told them he works as a home health care aide nearby, frequently takes walks, and likes to take breaks on the rock.
Passenger on the Midnight Shift
On an unusually quiet overnight shift last weekend, The Star's police reporter rode along with an East Hampton Town officer and got a window into a world where a 911 call can be anything from a mistake to something much worse.
East Hampton Has Eyes on Big Projects
It will be up to the community which projects rise to the top of the list as the East Hampton School District begins to firm up plans for a bond referendum of more than $60 million it will put on the May 2026 ballot, and on Tuesday night the superintendent, Adam Fine, announced four workshops designed to gather that input over the next few months.
Goats, Chickens, So What About the Vista?
There will be a horse trough, but no horse, at a Further Lane estate that sold this winter for $70 million in one of the East End’s priciest real estate transactions of 2025.
Elephant in the Room at Springs Brewery
Last week, mere minutes before the East Hampton Town Planning Board was to discuss the proposed Springs Brewery, an elephant squeezed into the room, in the form of a determination from Dawn Green, a town building inspector, turning what could have been a routine review of minor site plan inaccuracies into a snafu.
Hurricane Erin Is Offshore but Still Packing a Punch
By Tuesday evening, lifeguard stands had been moved back from the water’s edge or removed entirely from ocean beaches in East Hampton Town and Village. Red flags Tuesday warned all but the most experienced swimmers to stay out of the water and by Wednesday swimming was prohibited at all town, village, and state beaches on the ocean and access was cut off too because of the dangerous conditions and significantly shortened beaches.
Hochul Hails a Remade Playhouse
Two years after a groundbreaking for the Montauk Playhouse Community Center’s new aquatic and cultural centers, Gov. Kathy Hochul led a jubilant gathering including East Hampton Town and New York State officials past and present in a ceremonial ribbon-cutting for the expansive new facilities on Friday.
Affordable, Yes, but on How Big a Lot?
An East Hampton Town Board whose motto has been “All hands on housing” was divided 3-to-2 over two aspects of draft legislation that would create a new affordable multiple-residence housing use. Councilmen Ian Calder-Piedmonte and Tom Flight balked at the inclusion of what they characterized as “environmental restrictions” in the legislation, continuing a disagreement that began the previous week.