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News for Foodies 05.29.25

A wine dinner at Almond, Duryea's Montauk and Share the Harvest Farm are open, a major grant for East End Food, and Cove Hollow is closing.

A Big, Beautiful 4th Inning Kept Bonac in It

East Hampton High’s baseball team remained in the county’s AA tournament by virtue of a 15-4 shellacking of Rocky Point here Saturday after having lost 7-6 at Eastport-South Manor, the undefeated top seed, the day before.

Missing Elderly Man Has Been Found

After an extensive search by East Hampton Town police drones, a Suffolk County police helicopter, and Southampton Town and Suffolk County K-9 units that began Friday evening, a missing 88-year-old East Hampton man was found Saturday afternoon by a town police sergeant operating a drone. 

Cops Claim Passenger Had Loaded Handgun

After stopping a 2011 Cadillac CTS on East Hampton's Main Street shortly after 4 on Friday morning because of "multiple vehicle and traffic law violations," town police reportedly found a passenger sitting in the back seat with a loaded .45-caliber handgun.

Tom Brady Kicks Off Season With East Hampton Store Opening

Adoring fans flocked to the village Thursday, where Tom Brady cut the ribbon at CardVault by Tom Brady on Newtown Lane and then tossed footballs from a stage in Herrick Park.

Honoring the Fallen for Memorial Day

Memorial Day observances in East Hampton begin on Sunday when members of American Legion Post 419 and the Everit Albert Herter Veterans of Foreign Wars Post will travel by bus to cemeteries from Wainscott to Montauk to pay tribute to buried veterans, with rifle squad ceremonies at each one.

House-Passed Spending Bill Raises SALT Deduction

The United States House of Representatives passed President Trump's spending bill early Thursday, sending it along to the Senate. In it is a quadrupling of the cap on the State and Local Tax deduction, known colloquially as the SALT deduction, which Representative Nick LaLota said in a press release early Thursday is "a significant win for Long Island taxpayers."

East Hampton’s Downtown Businesses Are Ready

New businesses in the village range from a Rolex at the old Odd Fellows Hall and Tom Brady's sports collectible shop, CardVault, to restaurants, takeout spots, and the newly revamped Hedges Inn.

Montauk Playhouse Renovations Are Almost Done

“This is a town project that’s on time and under budget,” said Maureen Cahill, a board member of the Montauk Community Playhouse Foundation, where a new aquatic and cultural center is on track to open before summer’s end. “It’s a really good model of town, state, and private funding that put this together. Without those three it doesn’t work.”

White Sharks’ Return a Good Sign

A certain New York City tabloid did its best to sensationalize drone footage captured this month depicting a great white shark a few hundred feet off the Montauk shoreline, but the sighting is neither surprising nor cause for concern, a local expert insisted.

Empire Wind 1 Can Now Proceed

The whiplash resulting from policies announced and quickly reversed by the Trump administration continued this week with the surprise announcement that construction of the Empire Wind 1 offshore wind farm, which was halted last month by a stop-work order issued by the secretary of the Department of the Interior, could resume.

A ‘Small Cell’ Solution to Improve Poor Service

Nearly 200 “small cell” towers, each 42 feet tall, will be deployed across East Hampton Town, with over 150 slotted for Northwest Woods and Springs alone. The large majority, 129, could be operational by the end of the year.

New East Hampton Emergency Department Is Open

On the eve of Memorial Day weekend, the Stony Brook East Hampton Emergency Department has opened at 400 Pantigo Place. It will operate 24 hours a day, seven day a week, 365 days a year, including holidays.

‘Our Hamptons’ Podcast Marks Three Years

“It’s about history. It’s about preservation. It’s about sense of place, here, on eastern Long Island,” Irwin Levy says of the podcast he and Esperanza Leon have been producing since 2022.

Thanks to a Donation, There's Now a Defibrillator at Herrick Park

East Hampton Village accepted a SaveStation — a public-access automatic external defibrillator — on Tuesday afternoon, following donations from the Tintle family to the Louis J. Acompora Memorial Foundation. The station, which resembles a huge fire alarm, is now hanging at the Reutershan parking lot restrooms, next to the softball field at Herrick Park.

The Way It Was 05.22.25

A 1925 drowning, a raid of Montauk businesses in 2000, and much more from days gone bay in the town's newspaper of record.

New Attorneys at Town Hall

Trevor Darrell has been appointed East Hampton Town’s prosecutor, and Brittany Toledano has been hired as deputy town attorney, both effective as of Monday, according to a statement issued from Town Hall this week.

A Puzzle Over Surf Lessons at Ditch Plain

At an otherwise quiet East Hampton Town Board meeting, a decision about a special permit for surfing lessons in Montauk drew the most attention.

50 Ways to Leave Their Litter

The East Hampton Town Litter Action Committee offered several recommendations for how littering could be reduced: an anti-litter campaign, a code amendment that would strengthen rental registry trash-hauling requirements, engaging with the State Department of Transportation about improving litter removal along Route 27, and adding temporary signage, in English and Spanish, near recently cleaned areas and at the town transfer stations.

A Winning Wellness Walk in Montauk

On Saturday, Dr. Edwin Keeshan led Montauk’s inaugural Walk With a Doc, part of a national initiative to help people become more physically active while spending time in nature, building friendships, and learning a thing or two about wellness.