LTV Studios will host Real East End Brass, a New Orleans-style band, and MOIPEI, identical triplets from Nairobi, Kenya, who will sing Broadway, jazz, swing, and more.

A new book by the artist Tony Bechara, who died in April, will have a posthumous launch at LongHouse Reserve.

Gabriele Raacke at Ashawagh Hall, John Haubrich and Steven Corsano in Springs, floral art at the Depot Gallery, landscapes at Lucore in Montauk.

Melissa Errico, a Broadway actress and singer, to perform at the Southampton Arts Center, classical, jazz, and klezmer concert coming to Shelter Island.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

The East Hampton Town Architectural Review Board offered only anticlimactic comments to the planning board at its Aug. 14 meeting on an over 10-year-old application by the Springs Fire Department to erect a communications tower on its property at 179 Fort Pond Boulevard.

As the 2026 midterm elections draw closer, a second candidate for the Democratic Party’s nomination to challenge Representative Nick LaLota in New York’s First Congressional District has emerged, Lukas Ventouras, who is 24 and attending St. John’s School of Law.

Smokey Buns, a conveniently located burger joint, and Scoop and Waffle, a sweet little ice cream spot, off Park Place in East Hampton, were the perfect spots for the students of The Star’s Summer Academy to have a casual meal together on a Friday afternoon and try their hands at restaurant reviewing.

Amistad Week, commemorating the slave ship that was seized off Montauk in 1839 and featuring a series of events in the hamlet dedicated to history, art, and community, begins next week.

Wireless service in Sag Harbor Village would see a significant upgrade with the addition of two macro cell sites, which are typically found on towers, and at least four micro towers, or small wireless facilities, a consultant told the village board earlier this month.

A new book — “Memories of Gosman’s Dock, by the Help” — is a love letter to the local institution Gosman’s used to be, before it changed ownership last fall.