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Touring Musicians in Concert

Music for Montauk has invited four musicians from Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music to perform a recital at East Hampton's Presbyterian Church.

A Musical Weekend at LTV

LTV Studios will host performances by Liz Callaway, an award-winning singer and actress, and a jazz piano recital by Phil Markowitz.

Bits and Pieces 07.17.25

Artists on film, marionette workshop, concerts on Shelter Island, at Duck Creek, and the Sag Harbor Masonic Temple, benefits at BHCCRC, the Parrish, and Folly Tree.

The Art Scene 07.17.25

Solo shows for Claire Watson, Darius Yektai, Fitzhugh Karol, and Haim Mizrahi, Bryan Hunt talk at The Church, Ikebana workshop at WACH, a plethora of group shows.

News for Foodies 07.17.25

Paella nights at the fish farm, Best in Show wine class at Park Place, pop-ups at EECO Farm, new dishes at 1770 House, pizza by the slice at Cluckman's.

BY THE NUMBERS: House of Cards

A few fun (and perhaps frightening) facts and figures about democracy — politics, patriotism, and civic participation — on the South Fork.

Zelizer and Alpern Talk Political Partisanship

Julian Zelizer, the commentator and professor, will be in conversation with David Alpern, radio man and once of Newsweek, on Monday at the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton.

Movies and More in Gansett Square

Free movies have returned to Amagansett Square on Wednesday nights at sundown. Next week’s selection is “Surf’s Up.” Moviegoers have been advised to take their own seating and blankets.

Lobster Bake for Life-Saving Station

The Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station Museum’s ninth annual lobster bake fund-raiser happens on Saturday at 6 p.m. at the museum. 

Letters to the Editor for July 10, 2025

A new and varied influx of reader comment.

Water Bodies Showed Improved Quality Before Rainfall

Conditions at 29 percent of the 33 sites tested by C.C.O.M. in Montauk, Amagansett, and East Hampton have improved as compared to the results of samples taken during the week of June 30.

Vehicular Homicide Among New Charges in Springs Crash

New details were revealed Wednesday about the fatal accident in Springs on June 15, as Luis Barrionuevo-Fuertes, the 18-year-old who was driving the car involved in the crash, appeared for arraignment in Riverhead on a long list of new criminal charges before Acting Supreme Court Justice Steven A. Pilewski. If convicted of the top count of aggravated vehicular homicide, he could face up to 25 years in state prison.

Young Athletes Test Their Mettle in Youth Triathlon

While it might not be ideal for spur-of-the-moment registration, I-Tri’s Hamptons Youth Triathlon on Saturday morning should give spectators plenty to cheer for.

Plover Nest Nixes Montauk Fireworks Show

The discovery of a piping plover nest on the beach near the launch site forced an 11th-hour cancellation of the Montauk Chamber of Commerce's Fourth of July fireworks show. “This would be the first documented breeding record of a piping plover in Montauk,” said Brent Bomkamp, a co-compiler of the Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count in Montauk.

Complaints About Duryea's Piling Up

East Hampton Town has asked a New York State Supreme Court judge to hold the owner of Duryea’s, on Fort Pond Bay in Montauk, in contempt of the court’s May 2019 orders allowing a certificate of occupancy to remain in effect, order the removal of a new parking lot and deck that were constructed without proper permits, and allow the town to resume enforcement of its ordinances.

Large Sandbags Outstay Their Welcome

Experts disagree on whether Nicholas Grecco’s house at 117 Bay View would become a new feature of Napeague Bay without its wall of geocubes, essentially huge sandbags, strung and piled atop one another, protecting the house from wave attack.

Support for Georgica Cove Purchase

After a positive public hearing last Thursday before the East Hampton Town Board, it appears another major community preservation fund purchase is close. The deal is a complex arrangement between the town, East Hampton Village, and the Peconic Land Trust, with the majority of the $55 million purchase price — $35 million — coming from the land trust.

EXCERPT: 'Blue Dream: A Legacy of Modernism in the Hamptons'

When Julie Reyes Taubman and her husband, Bobby Taubman, purchased a five-acre parcel of land facing the Atlantic Ocean at the end of Two Mile Hollow Road in East Hampton in 2005, they knew only one thing about the house that they would build there: They wanted it to look nothing like the traditionally-styled gabled houses covered in shingles which for the last couple of decades had been poppin

EXCERPT: 'Blue Dream: A Legacy of Modernism in the Hamptons'

When Julie Reyes Taubman and her husband, Bobby Taubman, purchased a five-acre parcel of land facing the Atlantic Ocean at the end of Two Mile Hollow Road in East Hampton in 2005, they knew only one thing about the house that they would build there: They wanted it to look nothing like the traditionally-styled gabled houses covered in shingles which for the last couple of decades had been poppin

Village Noise Laws: 'What’s the Real Target?'

Simmering discontent with the effort by East Hampton Village officials to publicize code amendments passed over the winter that require service workers to register with the village and curtail noise by tightening the hours during which such work can be done came to a boil at the village board’s July 2 meeting, with an attorney and the director of a Latino advocacy organization forcefully criticizing what they deemed insufficient outreach.