Conversation about injustice at Guantanamo Bay, a Journey tribute band at Bay Street, the legacy of a pioneering architect, and music at the Masonic Temple.

Two painters at Southampton Cultural Center, ceramic workshop at Bridgehampton Museum, Harper's to open a new gallery in Bangkok, and artists converse at Dan Welden's studio.

Springs Tavern is to launch a new restaurant at Rowdy Hall’s old home, and Bostwick’s Chowder House is open for the season.

The Y.M.C.A. East Hampton Hurricanes left the Nassau County Aquatic Center in East Meadow Sunday night as the 2026 New York State champions, breaking record after record to swim their way into the top spot among 1,109 athletes from 28 teams, including Huntington, the defending state champs. 

On Saturday, March 28, the day of nationwide No Kings rallies protesting the Trump administration, pro-immigrant and anti-ICE activists will walk 40 miles from Montauk to Hampton Bays to raise money and awareness, with stops at Amagansett and Town Hall. Sign-up ends March 26.

Footage of Justin Timberlake’s adjudicated June 2024 drunken-driving arrest in Sag Harbor will soon be released in redacted form, according to court documents filed Friday by the pop star’s lawyers.

Beginning of a great disaster: In 1976, when tick-borne illnesses were unfamiliar here, a Shelter Islander was laid low by one and it was mistakenly thought to be malaria. Plus more bad and sometimes good news ripped from our pages.

Enticing private investors and employers to build housing units was a focus at a recent East Hampton Town Board work session, when the board discussed how best to build affordable housing in the town.

In the Democratic primary race for town supervisor, the incumbent, Kathee Burke-Gonzalez, touted a series of endorsements from party figures this week, while her opponent, Village Mayor Jerry Larsen, said the only endorsements that matter will be those made by voters.

This week, a sizable uptick.

Robin Kaplan, a bookseller, writer, and successful real estate broker formerly of East Hampton, died of pneumonia in Oakland Park, Fla., on Feb. 9. She was 74.

The East Hampton Town Trustees responded to intense criticism over their disposal of Canada geese suspected to have died of highly pathogenic avian flu, also known as bird flu.

“There is no single solution to the housing challenges we face, which is why we continue to explore a range of options,” East Hampton Town Supervisor Kathee Burke-Gonzalez said at the start of a town board work session with an agenda heavy on housing matters.

The East Hampton Town Planning Board scheduled a public hearing on the Hamptons Pride memorial planned for the Wainscott Green for April 8 at 6:30 p.m.

As in past years, the East Hampton Town Trustees voted last week to permit the use of an aquatic weed harvester in Georgica Pond this year and through 2030, in what is seen as an effective means to discourage the harmful algal blooms that have beset the pond starting almost 15 years ago.

Three months after Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed a bill that would have provided for reinstatement and acknowledgement of the Montaukett Indian Nation, the New York State Assembly unanimously passed a new bill to that end.

In the last few years, e-bikes have exploded in popularity, and the surge has caused some safety issues. Many municipalities, East Hampton Town among them, intend to implement new laws to keep up.

Rising temperature and chlorophyll, decreasing salinity, high nitrogen levels, dense blooms of Alexandrium and Dinophysis, blue-green algal blooms, and some fecal contamination characterized town water bodies in 2025, according to Christopher Gobler of Stony Brook University.

Reports of a suspicious vehicle in Montauk on Saturday night turned out to be several Patchogue residents having dinner alfresco and stargazing.

An East Hampton man was charged late last week with multiple counts of rape in what police say was child abuse involving a girl who was 10 years old when it began.