Paid Notice: Tim McAuliffe of Bridgehampton died on April 5, 2025. He was 85.

Paid Notice: Judith (Judy) Erdmann Makrianes died peacefully on May 11, 2025, at Essex Meadows Health Center in Essex, Connecticut.

Rosalyn Drexler show at the Pollock-Krasner House, two outdoor sculpture exhibitions, stoneware sculpture at the Parrish, group shows at the Springs Library, the Depot Gallery, Keyes Art, and Lucore Art.

New daily specials at La Fondita, Maguro Japanese Market opens in Montauk, and Little Charli will offer pizza-making classes this summer.

A United States Department of Homeland Security webpage published Friday to "expose sanctuary jurisdictions" included East Hampton among more than 500 other municipalities, Suffolk County among them. It caught local officials off guard and prompted swift response from immigrant advocates. It was removed by Monday morning.

East Hampton may have lost 4-0 to East Islip in Saturday’s final-round game, but the 18-6 baseball team had an excellent season — its first appearance in a county title game in 30 years being tops among the highlights. 

Michael Khodorkovskiy, who pleaded guilty in April to criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second degree, a class A-II felony, for distributing cocaine in East Hampton Town and elsewhere in Suffolk County, was sentenced on Thursday to 10 years in prison followed by five years of post-release supervision.

After the failure last week of a $38.41 million bond proposition that would have allowed for long-delayed renovations to the Montauk School, the school board and superintendent began to regroup this week, discussing how it could better engage with the community to build support for the project and what form the project should ultimately take.

For the first time in 30 years, an East Hampton High School baseball team will play for a county championship, at 3 p.m. on Saturday at the Middle Country Athletic Complex in Selden versus undefeated East Islip.

Opponents of Adam Potter’s proposed mixed-use building at 7 and 11 Bridge Streets in Sag Harbor lined up to denounce the project during a village planning board hearing Tuesday, repeating complaints voiced last month about flooding, parking, traffic, and contamination from incomplete environmental remediation at the site.

Paid Notice: Sally S. Slattery, a woman of adventure, intellect, and profound connection, passed away peacefully on Sunday, May 18, 2025, at The Landing of Lee, MA, at the age of 90.

ReWild Long Island added a new pollinator garden at the Windmill 1 senior citizens housing complex in East Hampton last week.

For the first time in more than 400 years, the Shinnecock Nation has reclaimed aboriginal land. 

“We call ourselves East Hampton’s front porch because we’re the first thing you see when you pull into the village,” Sarah Wetenhall, who now owns the inn with her husband, Andrew, said. “One of our big missions here is to make the Hedges and Swifty’s open and available for the community.”

It’s been a bad news/good news month for at least two pairs of ospreys that had nests under construction removed, one likely by a homeowner, the other by PSEG Long Island.

A new activist group, People for Democracy East Hampton, will rally on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Town Hall.

A resolution to schedule a June 18 public hearing on a $30.7 million village budget was passed Friday at a meeting that saw sniping about tax rates levied on village residents by the town.

A copy of the 1944 “East Hampton Social Guide” from the L.V.I.S. offers a fascinating snapshot of the local businesses and transit options of the time.

The fifth-and-sixth-grade girls on the East End Lacrosse team went undefeated this spring, finishing 9-0 after wrapping up the season at the Suffolk County Girls Lacrosse Jamboree at Bellport High School over the May 17 and 18 weekend.

The sacrifice of “those who paid so terrible a price to ensure that freedom would be our legacy” was underlined again and again during Memorial Day observances in East Hampton. “If you want to honor their memory, then do the things they can’t,” said retired Marine Major Conlon Carabine. “Care for your family, care for yourself, care for your community, and try not to take the simple things in life for granted.”