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A Chowder Extravaganza for Springs Food Pantry

The Springs Food Pantry’s annual Chowdah Chowdown fund-raiser will return to the Springs Tavern and Grill on Saturday afternoon with all-you-can-eat chowder and soup from local chefs, live music by Josh Brussell, a mocktail bar, and a 50-50 raffle with a cash prize.

Beach Hut to Stay on Main

East Hampton Village announced this week that the current occupant of the village-owned concession at the Main Beach pavilion, Susan Seekamp’s Beach Hut on Main, won the bid to continue operating for five more years.

Item of the Week: Mary Greene Thompson’s Autograph Book

This autograph book kept by Mary Howard Greene Thompson between 1830 and 1839 is an early version of today’s school yearbook, with messages and drawings left by friends and family to be read when they were apart.

A Meeting for East Hampton School Bond Ideas

On Wednesday at 6 p.m., the East Hampton School Board will hold the second of four public meetings to gather ideas from the community as the district prepares to put a $64 million capital improvement bond on the May 2026 ballot.

Kids Culture 10.09.25

CMEE and John Jermain celebrate birthdays, and the East Hampton Library welcomes teens for snacks, crafts, and SAT prep.

David Seeler of the Bayberry

David Seeler, a respected landscape architect and owner of the Bayberry Nursery in Amagansett for many years, died of acute myeloid leukemia on Sept. 28 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. He was 83.

For Devin Brevard

The family of Devin Brevard will receive visitors on Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton, and again on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Calvary Baptist Church here.

On the Water: The Window Narrows

Increasingly stronger and more persistent winds, especially from the northeast or northwest, portend that there really are only a few weeks of fishable days remaining. Time is getting short, inshore and especially offshore.

The Lineup 10.09.25

All the high school sports competition for the week ahead.

Letters to the Editor for October 9, 2025

Readers weigh in. And weigh in some more.

The Way It Was for October 9, 2025

In 1900, the friendly neighborhood Star evoked sizzling sausages and hot griddle cakes to welcome fall. And other, more prosaic entries from our past pages.

Shifting Narrative on Trump ‘Hellscape’

Democrats have begun winning the messaging battle, shifting attention from military deployments intended to rile up protests in blue-state cities to highlight the White House’s made-up narrative that the country is going to hell.

Is Your Reporter a Robot?

Freelance writers are turning in stories to weekly newspapers composed in the dulcet tones and smooth rhythms of ChatGPT-generated text. Here are some tips to detecting it.

The Mast-Head: Vague Sources

Before it was called Easthampton or East Hampton, the tiny colonial town way out on the eastern part of Long Island was known as Maidstone. Supposedly. Proof is scant.

The Shipwreck Rose: Class of 2053

At some point over the summer I passed over an invisible boundary line and began looking ahead to that golden day when I will become a grandmother.

Gristmill: Praise Be

Two nights in a fully outfitted Episcopal chapel turned Airbnb lodging: creepy or restful?

Guestwords: House Proud

I knew this would be no ordinary house. As a neighborhood kid, I saw Julian and Barbara Neski’s 1964 modernist masterpiece on Terbell Lane develop, and got to know the owners, Sy and Ronnie Chalif.

Recorded Deeds 10.09.25

New on the real estate front here.

Fall Fest Time in Montauk

The 44th annual Montauk Fall Fest happens on Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the downtown green. 

A ‘Super A.D.U. Situation’

The East Hampton Town Board appears poised to move forward with legislation that will allow parcels as small as a half-acre to be designated affordable housing overlay districts.