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Real Estate Surge Swells Preservation Fund

A surge in real estate sales continues to produce record-breaking revenues for the Peconic Bay Community Preservation Fund.

Ambulance Association Honors Its Finest

The East Hampton Village Ambulance Association, in a virtual presentation last week, honored a number of its members who not only coped with Covid but went beyond.

Felony D.W.I. Charged in Jeep Crash

A Springs man, Jeriel Rivera-Carrero, was charged on Jan. 3 with felony driving while intoxicated, the only such arrest to be reported last week.

On the Police Logs

Six unwanted skateboarders were reported Saturday afternoon to be whizzing around the Apple Bank property at the intersection of Main and Spring Streets. They were leaving when police arrived.

South Fork Schools Expand Covid-19 Planning

As school staff, including nurses, therapists, and teachers, lined up to be vaccinated this week, school districts continued to grapple with plans to conduct Covid-19 testing all while trying to not let the virus upend children’s education.

A Passion for Smoked Fish

Paul Slovak had a career in advertising, but a passion for fish, especially smoked fish, has been in his blood since childhood. After marriage, children, and corporate life, he resumed smoking fish as a hobby a few years ago. In 2017, he made it a business.

News for Foodies 01.14.21

Oven ready pub takeout from Main Street Tavern, a new Wolffer botanical cider, healthy cooking classes, and more

Pet Food, to Give and to Get

The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons will hold its next Pet Food Pantry event on Jan. 16.

A Journey Inward

“Being Ram Das” is the memoir of the former Richard Alpert of Boston, whose remarkable journey took him from elite universities, high social status, and hallucinogenic drug use to points near and very far, including, in 1967, to the feet of a blanketed man in the Himalayas.

Lucien Smith: From Wunderkind to Artists' Champion

At 31, Lucien Smith's story has taken him from "wunderkind" to blowback, a break from New York and the gallery system, a move to Montauk in 2015, and the creation of STP (Serving the People), a nonprofit commission-free platform for artists to show and sell their work.

Edward Burns's Bridge to Somewhere

Edward Burns's "Bridge and Tunnel" is a real time traveler that will seem both familiar and alien to anyone who lived through the cusp of the 1970s and 1980s. For those born much later, it serves as a period piece that recreates those days faithfully and lovingly.

John Marshall Will Go Remote Friday, Middle and High School Closure Extended

The East Hampton School District will restrict classes to remote-only at the John M. Marshall Elementary School starting Friday, and will extend this week’s virtual instruction at the middle and high schools through next week.

Hit-and-Run in Amagansett — Search for Driver of Pickup Truck Is Ongoing

East Hampton Town police, aided by a Suffolk Police helicopter crew, were searching Wednesday afternoon for a driver who fled a hit-and-run accident involving as many as three pedestrians that took place just before noon on Route 27 in Amagansett.

A.I.A. Peconic Announces its 2020 Awards

On Saturday, A.I.A. Peconic, the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects, announced its annual awards during an evening Zoom presentation.

Bits and Pieces 01.14.21

Stephen Hamilton is back at Bay Street as the director of external affairs for the Friends of Bay Street, Music for Montauk releases a filmed concert, and more

The Art Scene 01.14.21

A discussion of affordable housing for artists and the youth flight in the area at the Parrish and more

No Choice but to Impeach

There are perhaps as many ways to look at the rampage at the Capitol as there were participants, but one thing is indisputable: It was a planned attempt for one branch of federal government to take over another.

Lee Zeldin Must Go

By persisting in the stolen-election lie, Lee Zeldin took the side of the pro-Trump armed attackers and betrayed United States democracy.

The Mast-Head: Chain of Violence

Like many Americans, I have struggled to come to any kind of understanding of the violence and destruction taken to Washington just over a week ago. But one thing is clear to me as a late-coming student of slavery in the Colonial and early Republic North: Mob violence is no aberration in our history.

The Shipwreck Rose: Wilmington

Nettie and I took a flying drive to Delaware this week to inspect the campus of a boarding school. Pandemic ennui makes even the shortest jaunt seem like a grand holiday.