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Lobster Bake for Life-Saving Station

The Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station Museum’s ninth annual lobster bake fund-raiser happens on Saturday at 6 p.m. at the museum. 

Letters to the Editor for July 10, 2025

A new and varied influx of reader comment.

Water Bodies Showed Improved Quality Before Rainfall

Conditions at 29 percent of the 33 sites tested by C.C.O.M. in Montauk, Amagansett, and East Hampton have improved as compared to the results of samples taken during the week of June 30.

Vehicular Homicide Among New Charges in Springs Crash

New details were revealed Wednesday about the fatal accident in Springs on June 15, as Luis Barrionuevo-Fuertes, the 18-year-old who was driving the car involved in the crash, appeared for arraignment in Riverhead on a long list of new criminal charges before Acting Supreme Court Justice Steven A. Pilewski. If convicted of the top count of aggravated vehicular homicide, he could face up to 25 years in state prison.

Young Athletes Test Their Mettle in Youth Triathlon

While it might not be ideal for spur-of-the-moment registration, I-Tri’s Hamptons Youth Triathlon on Saturday morning should give spectators plenty to cheer for.

Plover Nest Nixes Montauk Fireworks Show

The discovery of a piping plover nest on the beach near the launch site forced an 11th-hour cancellation of the Montauk Chamber of Commerce's Fourth of July fireworks show. “This would be the first documented breeding record of a piping plover in Montauk,” said Brent Bomkamp, a co-compiler of the Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count in Montauk.

Complaints About Duryea's Piling Up

East Hampton Town has asked a New York State Supreme Court judge to hold the owner of Duryea’s, on Fort Pond Bay in Montauk, in contempt of the court’s May 2019 orders allowing a certificate of occupancy to remain in effect, order the removal of a new parking lot and deck that were constructed without proper permits, and allow the town to resume enforcement of its ordinances.

Large Sandbags Outstay Their Welcome

Experts disagree on whether Nicholas Grecco’s house at 117 Bay View would become a new feature of Napeague Bay without its wall of geocubes, essentially huge sandbags, strung and piled atop one another, protecting the house from wave attack.

Support for Georgica Cove Purchase

After a positive public hearing last Thursday before the East Hampton Town Board, it appears another major community preservation fund purchase is close. The deal is a complex arrangement between the town, East Hampton Village, and the Peconic Land Trust, with the majority of the $55 million purchase price — $35 million — coming from the land trust.

EXCERPT: 'Blue Dream: A Legacy of Modernism in the Hamptons'

When Julie Reyes Taubman and her husband, Bobby Taubman, purchased a five-acre parcel of land facing the Atlantic Ocean at the end of Two Mile Hollow Road in East Hampton in 2005, they knew only one thing about the house that they would build there: They wanted it to look nothing like the traditionally-styled gabled houses covered in shingles which for the last couple of decades had been poppin

EXCERPT: 'Blue Dream: A Legacy of Modernism in the Hamptons'

When Julie Reyes Taubman and her husband, Bobby Taubman, purchased a five-acre parcel of land facing the Atlantic Ocean at the end of Two Mile Hollow Road in East Hampton in 2005, they knew only one thing about the house that they would build there: They wanted it to look nothing like the traditionally-styled gabled houses covered in shingles which for the last couple of decades had been poppin

Village Noise Laws: 'What’s the Real Target?'

Simmering discontent with the effort by East Hampton Village officials to publicize code amendments passed over the winter that require service workers to register with the village and curtail noise by tightening the hours during which such work can be done came to a boil at the village board’s July 2 meeting, with an attorney and the director of a Latino advocacy organization forcefully criticizing what they deemed insufficient outreach.

Combs Verdict on Trafficking Is Examined

To Cate Carbonaro, executive director of the East Hampton advocacy organization the Retreat, who has worked extensively with victims of sex and labor trafficking as a public defender, the split verdict in the federal criminal trial of Sean (Diddy) Combs presents a “stark reminder of how far we still have to go” to educate both the courts and the public about what the “often misunderstood” charge of sex trafficking really means.

Barbershop Stories

Across America, community is built around the simple act of getting a fade or flat top — and stories among men are shared as freely as the clippings of hair that fall after the snip, snip of the scissors. On the South Fork, the professionals who cut hair have tales of their own to tell.

Barbershop Stories

Across America, community is built around the simple act of getting a fade or flat top — and stories among men are shared as freely as the clippings of hair that fall after the snip, snip of the scissors. On the South Fork, the professionals who cut hair have tales of their own to tell.

C.C.O.M. to Investigate Sources of Pollution in Fort Pond

Dubbed the “Save Montauk’s Waters” campaign, the plans to help the beleaguered water body were equal parts education and action. “The ultimate goal of this study is solid, evidence-backed recommendations for remediation of toxic blue-green algae and pathogenic bacteria in the pond, that will be cost effective and long lasting,” said Rebecca Holloway, Concerned Citizens of Montauk’s manager of environmental advocacy.

Down to the Sea in Boats

Bruce Collins was a pilot and co-captain on a bunker steamer and shrimp trawlers in the 1950s. He took a camera. The images he created of a lost working-man's life along the eastern and southern coastline are not just invaluable as social history, but stunning in their artistic merit.

Down to the Sea in Boats

Bruce Collins was a pilot and co-captain on a bunker steamer and shrimp trawlers in the 1950s. He took a camera. The images he created of a lost working-man's life along the eastern and southern coastline are not just invaluable as social history, but stunning in their artistic merit.

Trump Talk: Orders Are ‘Comically Illegal’

The “apparent decline in our civil liberties and the unusual and extraordinary accretion of executive power that we’ve seen since Donald Trump was inaugurated” were considered with a mixture of gloom and optimism alongside denunciations of the conservative majority on the United States Supreme Court and a spirited call for citizen action to defend democracy at “Guardrails on Democracy,” the first Hamptons Institute discussion of the 2025 season.

Kudos for Mile Hill Road Buy

“We actually lived off the land. We didn’t have electricity until I was 12. We had cows, steer, pigs. I milked the cows,” said Larry Koncelik, speaking at a public hearing before the East Hampton Town Board on the proposed purchase of a 9.35-acre parcel at 43 Mile Hill Road, along Northwest Harbor.