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Village Beach Season Extension? Town Trustees Dubious

The East Hampton Town Trustees were of two minds about a proposed East Hampton Village law to extend the prohibition of dogs and trucks on village beaches from Sept. 15 to Columbus Day.

Town Takes on 911 Dispatch

The Town of East Hampton formally completed the transition of primary 911 call answering from East Hampton Village to its Police Department Dispatch Center. All 911 calls from landlines within the town (outside the village or Sag Harbor) will now be taken from the town police headquarters in Wainscott.

On the Logs 01.29.26

An East Hampton Library employee told police on Jan. 20 that an elderly man who has a history of “tying women’s undergarments onto a bicycle at the library” had done it again.

Struck and Airlifted to the Hospital

A Montauk woman was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital on Jan. 22 after being hit by a car.

Kids Culture for January 29, 2026

For kids and families this week, there's tinsmithing at the Children's Museum of the East End, a family workshop at the Watermill Center, and a movie, author visit, and slime-making at the East Hampton Library.

Ross Senior Projects Inspire, Innovate, and Delight

East Enders in search of a cultural experience, look no further than the Ross School’s senior projects. “The idea is that their passions and their interests and their academic capacity and skills all feed into a passion project that they pursue on a very serious level, working with faculty mentors. It’s like a pivot point in their lives,” said the director of senior projects.

Springs Notebook: Ospreys Soar at Winterfest

The long Martin Luther King Jr. weekend was a competitive one for Spring School students who swim for the East Hampton Hurricanes.

Tales of Shovels, Plows, and Icy Swims

Scenes from yet another winter storm, from a cold plunge in Gardiner's Bay to a hardware store keeping people in shovels and salt to the highway departments working around the clock to clear the roads.

Buddhist Monks on the Path to World Peace

Twenty or so monks from a monastery in Texas are making their way to Washington, D.C., on a mission of compassion, while locally a class on the Buddhist path to world peace will be held in Water Mill.

‘ICE Out’ Vigils on Friday

Coordinated vigils for what organizers call victims of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement will happen across the East End on Friday at 6 p.m. and in Riverhead on Saturday at 10 a.m., with local events scheduled in East Hampton Village and Sag Harbor.

Item of the Week: The Reverend and the Accabonac Tribe

This photostat of a deposition taken on Oct. 18, 1667, from East Hampton’s first minister, Thomas James, is one of the earliest records we have of “Ackobuak,” or “Accabonac,” as a place name.

Sag Harbor Gets a Septic Grant

Sag Harbor Village is the recipient of a $34,091 New York State grant to develop an engineering study to replace failing septic systems in the Redwood neighborhood with a decentralized wastewater collection and treatment system to reduce nitrogen and pathogen loading in Sag Harbor Cove.

The Teen Pager: Love Is in the Air

With Valentines Day around the corner, our teen book reviewer considers two books by Nicola Yoon about profound romances, each of which have captured the hearts of readers across the globe: "Everything Everything" and "The Sun is Also a Star." 

Wind Power Wins Again in Court

The offshore wind industry, despite a sustained campaign against it by the Trump administration, won another round on Jan. 15 when a United States District Court granted the developer of the Empire Wind 1 farm a preliminary injunction that allows construction of the 54-turbine, 810-megawatt project to resume.

Letters to the Editor for January 29, 2026

Debating the Democratic Party primary for supervisor, while on the national scene LaLota takes his lumps.

Ban the Blowers

Norms change. And it’s time for a norm change around gas leaf blowers.

Save the Ranch

The 40-acre Montauk property known to surfers and surfcasters as the Ranch is a priority for preservation.

The Mast-Head: The Common Thread

The Trump administration checks all the boxes on a list of fascist tendencies.

The Shipwreck Rose: Cats and Dogs

My lack of anything interesting to tell you this week makes me worried that I will soon be treating you to repeated columns about the bird feeder.

Gristmill: Color Me Impressed

Hints of blue in a drift of snow? It’s a sign that a rare “real winter” has hit the South Fork.