This newspaper clipping from the Aug. 4, 1977, East Hampton Star advertises the upcoming Fisherman's Fair at Ashawagh Hall, benefiting the Springs Improvement Society. The ad is from the Springs Historical Society Archive.
This newspaper clipping from the Aug. 4, 1977, East Hampton Star advertises the upcoming Fisherman's Fair at Ashawagh Hall, benefiting the Springs Improvement Society. The ad is from the Springs Historical Society Archive.
A dozen or so Springs residents, along with the hamlet's board of fire commissioners and attorneys for various property owners, protested to the East Hampton Town Board Tuesday over its plan to site a 185-foot monopole for emergency and personal wireless communications in a residential area.
Wings Over Haiti, which built a school near Port-au-Prince and has plans to build another, will benefit from the Hamptons Artists for Haiti fund-raiser at the East Hampton Airport on Saturday, Aug. 7, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. The organization was established by Jonathan Glynn, a Sag Harbor artist, in 2010.
A proposal that would permit two-bedroom accessory dwellings with kitchens on East Hampton Village properties of 40,000 square feet or more, for use by family, friends, or employees of the primary residents, received unanimous support at a village board meeting on Friday.
The site of a long-vacant former furniture warehouse on Toilsome Lane in East Hampton Village could become home to a brewery and restaurant with a tasting room and outdoor beer garden.
An almost-head-on crash late Wednesday morning in East Hampton Town left one driver pinned in his car while the other was able to free himself before first responders arrived on the scene.
If there was any doubt before that Andrew M. Cuomo should no longer be governor of New York, a scathing report this week from the state attorney general’s independent investigation into his pattern of serial sexual harassment of women should have erased it entirely.
I have been spending a lot of time aboard Cerberus this summer, though not as much of it sailing as I would have liked.
Among the brilliant things I never did was an art project I conceived of in my late teens, in which I was going to take Polaroid photographs of my feet clad in favorite pairs of shoes. An autobiography in footwear.
My current obsession with the Tokyo Olympics prompts memories of a low-budget trip to Montreal for the ’76 Games.
The traffic is godawful, but maybe as a result of the snail's pace everyone's driving too slowly to inflict much damage.
I am 74 and diagnosed with end-stage heart and kidney disease. The doctors said there was not much more they could do. Go live life.
While he continued to maintain that he had done nothing wrong, an increasingly beleaguered Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo faced calls for his resignation from lawmakers at all levels after State Attorney General Letitia James announced Tuesday that an independent investigation had concluded that he had "sexually harassed current and former state employees in violation of both federal and state laws."
Blythe Grossberg chronicles her life as a tutor to the offspring of the ultra-rich who summer here, but the Harvard grad with a doctorate in psychology is no ordinary tutor. You’re left wondering why she put up with the parents.
A fund-raiser for Capt. Skip Rudolph of the Montauk charter boat Adios, who is battling medical issues, will happen on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at La Fin restaurant, at 474 West Lake Drive at Montauk Harbor.
Four of the 26 water bodies tested last week by Concerned Citizens of Montauk had high levels of the enterococcus bacteria, and three had medium levels. "Bacteria levels seem to have normalized at most of our sites, with the exception of a few of our typically problematic locations," Kate Rossi-Snook of C.C.O.M. wrote.
Over the course of more than five decades, Frank Gillette has produced a profound and influential body of work in video and photography that has opened a window on the possibilities and dangers of technology.
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