A small German shepherd jumped out of the bed of a pickup truck and tackled her goldendoodle in the field next to Sag Harbor’s Havens Beach, leaving the dog “shaking” and apparently afraid to move, a caller told police on Aug. 27.

Craig R. Humphrey, a professor of sociology and a sailor, died at home in East Hampton on July 31. He was 82.

Thomas David Talmage, a former East Hampton Town engineer, died at his house on Long Lane in East Hampton on Aug. 26. He was 65 and had Parkinson’s disease.

Timothy F. Marquand, a part-time Sag Harbor resident and a founder of the Jazz Composers Orchestra Association, died of pneumonia in February at Aspen Valley Hospital in Colorado. He was 83.

Catching up with Sergey Avramenko, the 40-year-old native of Belarus who has dominated 5K road racing hereabouts, as he prepares to start a new life in Florida as a soccer and running coach.

The Great Bonac road races drew 122 participants to the Springs Firehouse on Labor Day morning. Erik Engstrom, 27, a county cross-country champion when he was at East Hampton High, won the 10K, and Neil Falkenhan, 41, won the 5K.

At the turn of the millennium, Robert David Lion Gardiner and his estranged niece, Alexandra Creel Goelet, appeared in court in a disagreement over upzoning the family’s privately held Gardiner’s Island. And more of consequence from our past coverage.

It’s the Star mailbag, end-of-season edition.

Homeowners are suing the town over the loss of a view that the town itself was supposed to preserve.

Rhode Island has imposed an extra tax on second homes worth over $1 million, while municipalities on Cape Cod are considering adding a 2-percent transfer tax on property sales above the $2 million mark to fund affordable housing.

A reminder of how wasps like old boats.

More moves, realty-wise.

Tumbleweed Tuesday was the best day of the year, weather-wise. Of course, I am prone to such pronouncements. I can’t help it.

Divorced from reality, sanity, and the actual mechanics of driving, the new car commercials are as depressing as they are slick.

My friends and I never said “the Hamptons” growing up. That label refers to a resort for summer people and weekend warriors, not a place where you go to high school. But is “out east” any better?

Paid Notice: We are stunned and saddened to share the sudden death of Susan Leyner Wartur of Springs on Monday, August 25th.

Paid Notice: John Frederick Garretson, age 78, longtime resident of both Malverne and East Hampton, Long Island, passed away on Friday, August 15, 2025, at the Home of the Good Shepherd Assisted Living in Malta, N.Y.

A jack of many creative trades, East Hampton's Zach Minskoff is a busy photographer, videographer, studio technician, production company owner, and graphic designer.

Three accomplished designers will share stories about their varied practices in a discussion at the Women’s Art Center of the Hamptons.

A lawsuit and a countersuit between the two architects behind R2 Architecture, the venture that designed the East Hampton Town senior citizens center planned on Abraham's Path in Amagansett, have further delayed the long-stalled project and could result in cost increases for the roughly $30 million project.