The Hampton Lifeguard Association finished an impressive fifth in the United States Life Saving Association's national tournament in California last week, but the biggest news coming out of the tourney was that four of H.L.A.'s U-19s qualified to compete for the U.S. team in the International Surf Rescue Challenge in New Zealand.

Nature’s next dazzling light show is the Perseid meteor shower, which peaks Tuesday and Wednesday this week with prime viewing opportunities at two East End state parks.

Town Hall needs to heed the community's repeated calls for more-urgent action on fire preparedness. 

I'm ashamed to admit that I've done very little fishing this season. But I have a good reason.

Paid Notice: Diane H. Brubaker was born on March 21,1946, and passed away on June 29, 2025.

A woman found dead aboard a boat docked at the Montauk Yacht Club on Star Island Road, was Martha Nolan-O’Slatarra, 33, a Manhattan-based entrepreneur and marketing consultant originally from County Carlow, Ireland.

It took 50 years, but the final two lots of a four-lot duneland subdivision, created in 1975 by the Gardiner’s Bay Corporation along Bendigo Road in Amagansett, will soon be developed.

Jaine Mehring, a member of the town’s zoning board of appeals and litter action committee, and the founder of Build.In.Kind/East Hampton, announced the formation of the East Hampton Community Housing Trust to help meet a persistent crisis.

Gov. Kathy Hochul pledged on Monday to respond in kind to Texas Republicans’ move to redraw that state’s congressional districts to further advantage their party in the 2026 midterm elections.

Sag Harbor Village Justice Carl Irace was appointed in late June to represent Cruz Eduardo Sanchez-Gutierrez, an alleged member of the street gang MS-13, in a death penalty-eligible federal racketeering case that includes charges of murder and conspiracy to murder.

Alexander Svarre, a 17-year-old rising senior at Manhattan’s Dwight School, has been spending his last summer before graduation as an intern for the East Hampton Village mayor’s office, working on a very specific task: documenting the memorial plaques under 492 trees located throughout the village.

Immigrant advocates and the East Hampton Village Board were broadly in agreement that handling code violations vis-a-vis service workers could be streamlined in a way to ease deportation fears.

A few hundred lucky subscribers to SiriusXM satellite radio will be treated to a concert by Metallica, one of the biggest bands in the world, when the broadcaster holds its annual concert at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett on Aug. 28.

The New York State Broadcasters Association has announced its 2025 Hall of Fame inductees, with its president, David Donovan, praising the class as setting the “gold standard” for New York broadcasting. Among the six honorees are Sag Harbor’s own radio legends Bill Evans and Gary Sapiane, both of WLNG 92.1 FM.

The long-awaited ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Montauk Playhouse aquatic and cultural centers is planned for Friday, Aug. 15, at 2 p.m.

Three environmental experts will address the topic of protecting and preserving the ecology of one’s community on Saturday in Bridgehampton.

The John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor has put out a call for candidates to run for its board in the Sept. 25 election and budget vote.

On Wednesday, Goat on a Boat Puppet Theatre will host a puppet-making workshop at LTV Studios, at 75 Industrial Road in Wainscott, from 5 to 7 p.m.

The East Hampton Library will host its annual Children’s Fair on Sunday at Herrick Park, with festivities including carnival rides, games, crafts, performances, food, and raffles.

It’s property tax time in East Hampton Village, which is again offering three ways for residents to submit payments.