The Joseph F. Gunster House, also known as the T.W. Morris House, on Hither Lane near Amy’s Lane, appears here covered in snow, off a snowy road. While the photograph is uncredited and undated, Gunster (1894-1979) and his wife, Ruth Harris Work Gunster, who was known as Harriette, owned the house for almost 21 years, between August 1943 and 1964.

A hundred years ago in The Star: Bad hootch so snarled up the feet and warped the brains of some of the people attending dances at the Chateau de Legion of Eugene Hand Post, American Legion, at Hampton Bays, that henceforth admission to the dances will be by card only.

In the blotter this week a Springs resident told police back on Dec. 5 that she’d received a video of herself, accompanied by a threat that the video would be shared unless she sent $500 to its unknown sender. The woman did not send money.

A Sag Harbor woman reported a scam that defrauded her of more than $200,000 to Sag Harbor Village police — and ultimately the Federal Bureau of Investigation — after a previously unknown individual contacted her on Instagram.

Carolyn Celeste Cerchiai “devoted her life to her family,” they wrote. “Carolyn’s warmth touched everyone who knew her.” Mrs. Cerchiai died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Jan. 22. She was 80 and had a respiratory illness.

Liam Knight, a junior, led the East Hampton High School boys swimming team to a third-place finish in the League 2 championship meet at Sachem East High School on Jan. 27, accounting for 80 of the team’s 225 points in the four events he swam, the 100 and 200 freestyle races, which he won, and as a member of the second-place 400 free relay team and the fourth-place 200 free relay team.

Kieran Hildreth of Montauk, a 15-year-old sophomore at the Burke Mountain Academy in Vermont, dominated the Eastern Region U-16 circuit, winning the United States Ski and Snowboard Association Regional Performance Series super-G race at Copper Mountain, Colo., in December, which he followed up by winning all six giant slalom and slalom races at an annual RPS event at Whiteface Mountain in the Adirondacks.

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Playing its best game of the season, the East Hampton High School boys basketball team, at full strength at last, routed Harborfields 67-34 here on Jan. 27. In girls track, Greylynn Guyer set an indoor school record in the 3,000-meter race in 10 minutes and 48.90 seconds, and C.J. Echavarria ran a school-record 9.43 seconds in the 55-meter high hurdles.

This week's high school sports schedule.

An emotional East Hampton Town Board meeting Tuesday began with a two-hour public outpouring of support for the Latino community, mixed with confusion and countless questions about what ordinary people can do in the face of deportation threats from the Trump administration. Later, East Hampton and Sag Harbor Village officials and the East Hampton School District superintendent held a press conference emphasizing that all people should feel safe going to school or calling police and emergency personnel.

An emotional East Hampton Town Board meeting Tuesday began with a two-hour public outpouring of support for the Latino community, mixed with confusion and countless questions about what ordinary people can do in the face of deportation threats from the Trump administration. Later, East Hampton and Sag Harbor Village officials and the East Hampton School District superintendent held a press conference emphasizing that all people should feel safe going to school or calling police and emergency personnel.

The East Hampton Town Board is looking to change the parking rules for several municipal lots in Montauk, adding a time limit at some that currently have no limit and making it easier for police to enforce restrictions where they do exist.

A proposal by Gov. Kathy Hochul for the state to cover the cost of school meals for all children could have a major impact on the Sag Harbor School District budget for 2025-26, the school’s business administrator, Jennifer Buscemi, told the board last week. But the largest part of the school budget is salaries and employee benefits.

At the Amagansett School Board’s budget presentation Tuesday evening Thomas Mager, the district’s treasurer, discussed the draft budgets for revenue and expenditure.

Gerard Drive, regarded as one of the more environmentally sensitive areas in East Hampton Town, jutting out as it does into Gardiner’s Bay and protecting Accabonac Harbor, has only one pool along its 1.4-mile length. Soon there will be another.

For East Hampton as much as Washington, D.C., readers are concerned.

Elon Musk is out of control and running the show in Washington, D.C. 

Immigrant labor has helped keep the Hamptons humming for decades, longer if you go back to the turn of the 20th century and the Irish and Italians who worked on the estates of the oceanfront rich.

It is the story of my life that, post sixth grade, I have pretty much always been on the giver end of the Valentine exchange.