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Wainscott Committee Honors LTV Studios Director

Michael Clark, the executive director of LTV Studios, was honored with a Recognition Award at a Wainscott Citizens Advisory Committee meeting on Saturday after being invited as a guest speaker.

Shoppe's Party Nearly Over on Park Place

After 34 years in business — all of them on East Hampton's Park Place — the Party Shoppe will close its doors at the end of February when its owner, Theo Landi, retires.

Hurricanes and Heartbreak for Former East Hampton Man

"Our lifelong friend Tommy Hupalowsky can use your help right now," Robin Goetz wrote on a GoFundMe fund-raising page last month. Two hurricanes and the loss of his wife have left Mr. Hupalowsky, a former longtime employee of Ben Krupinski Builders, facing difficulty in Englewood, Fla.

Item of the Week: Pursuing Duryea at the Polls, 1978

In this Star photo by Eileen Bock we see a helicopter grounded below the Montauk Manor on the Montauk Playhouse lawn, as someone from ABC News hoped to catch Perry Duryea Jr. at the polls in his native hamlet.

In East Hampton, Much Has Changed, Long-Range Plan Has Not

The last time East Hampton Village updated its comprehensive plan, in 2002, the region had been freshly impacted by 9/11, Amazon was in its infancy, and the iPhone hadn't yet been invented. While a lot has changed, as they say, much has stayed the same, including many of the issues facing the village. Issues identified in the 2002 plan — traffic, teardowns, and loss of businesses that served the local population — persist in 2024.

Montauk School Construction Project Is Coming Into Focus

A community vote to raise money for construction is on the horizon for the Montauk School District, which recently released the estimated tax impact for a bond somewhere between $40 and $45 million.

Kids Culture 11.07.24

This week's lineup of activities for children and teens includes robotics, taste-test challenges, a Mario Kart tournament, sports activities, and more.

On the Police Logs 11.07.24

A woman at the Amagansett train station reported “an older man making eye contact” with her on Friday evening and walking around her car. Eventually, she told police, he attempted to open her locked car door. Police could not find him.

On the Water: Old Habits

I can most certainly relate to the phrase “old habits are hard to break,” especially as it pertains to bay scallops. No matter how much I read year after year about the dire predictions for the five-month scallop season, which opened at daybreak on Monday morning in state waters, I still make plans to be on my Rock Water with six iron dredges in tow on opening day.

Final Buzzer Sounds for Band of Ballers

A writer looks back at one of the most iconic pickup basketball games on the South Fork, a long-running Sunday morning affair that drew all sorts of players from all walks of life.

Long-Delayed 7-on-7 Soccer Final Goes Market’s Way

Two months after it was originally to have been played, the East End men’s 7-on-7 soccer final was finally contested at East Hampton Village’s Herrick Park on Oct. 30, with Maidstone Market, the league’s perennial power, emerging as a 2-1 winner over Tortorella Pools.

The Way It Was for November 7, 2024

A Prohibition-era rumrunning arrest, the death of an important pet fish, election results from another era, and more in this week's look back at the East Hampton Star archive.

James R. Barry

Paid notice: James R. Barry of Evans, GA. passed away Tuesday, October 29, 2024. From 1959 to 1991, Jim taught Social Studies at East Hampton Union Free School District, East Hampton, N.Y.

Letters to the Editor for November 7, 2024

This week's reader comments. Got your own opinions to share? Email your letter to [email protected] by Monday at 5 p.m.

Board Says Wainscott House ‘Is Off the Mark’

In a rare unanimous decision, the architectural review board has denied an application to build a 7,374-square-foot residence at 84 Wainscott Hollow Road in Wainscott. Renderings of the proposed nine-bedroom, 12-bathroom house have been on Zillow even ahead of the A.R.B. meetings, with a suggested value of over $23 million.

Shifting on Its Axis

Overnight, from Tuesday to Wednesday, the world shifted on its axis. We can pretend we awoke to the same country, and go about our business, but we did not.

All Signs Equally

It almost seems a drop in a vast sea of uncertainty to talk of something as seemingly small as signs in Sag Harbor. Yet in the context of the re-election of a Constitution-defying leader, small freedoms will come to loom large.

A Home Run

If this week has taught us anything, it’s that we need more opportunities to come together for fun. You got a taste of that if you had a chance to stop by the block party that the East Hampton Village Foundation hosted on Newtown Lane on Oct. 26 as the Yankees faced the Dodgers in Game 2 of the World Series.

The Mast-Head: Not Sailing

A number of people I’ve run into in the past couple of weeks have asked about my sailboat and what the status of its motor retrofit is. Perhaps it was because of the unseasonably mild weather that some minds turned to sailing.

The Shipwreck Rose: In the Dark

Many, many years — and many shattered illusions — ago, during the presidential election year of 2004, when I was a magazine editor in Manhattan, I volunteered during the Republican National Convention as an “election observer.”