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Keeping Account: 12.26.19

The Loaves and Fishes Cookshop in Bridgehampton and the Bridgehampton Inn will close for a winter break starting Jan. 1, and will reopen Feb. 5.

Recorded Deeds: 12.26.19

The prices listed here have been calculated from the county transfer tax. Unless otherwise noted, the parcels contain structures.

Plum Island Habitat Preserved

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has signed into law a bill establishing protection and conservation areas for marine mammals and birds that live on the land and waters of Plum Island, Great Gull Island, and Little Gull Island.

Parsing Six Films of the Fab Four

Starting on Sunday, the Montauk Library will host “Twist and Shout: The Beatles on Film,” featuring all five of the Fab Four’s cinematic triumphs — and missteps — plus the director Ron Howard’s loving 2016 tribute to the band’s hundreds of live performances.

Opinion: Through a Window, Brightly

The Lee Freeman show at Rental Gallery in East Hampton is essentially just a few light-up sculptures in the window and entrance of the gallery, but that is by design.

A Peek Inside the New Sag Harbor Cinema

Sag Harbor Cinema will reopen in March as a community center as well as a three-screen movie theater for mainstream, independent, and classic films.

East End Eats: Southampton Publick House Has What Matters Most

A large and welcoming sports bar serving hearty portions of chow

News for Foodies: 12.26.19

New specials at Rowdy for New Year's Eve and New Year's Day and Jeremy Blutstein to cook at Beard House

It Was a Mag Mag World

“Mag Men” by Walter Bernard and Milton Glaser, the formidable graphic designers whose work with New York magazine left a huge imprint on American journalism, adds to the bleak realization that an era has ended, but what a wonderful retrospective of a 50-year legacy of art direction this is.

Bits and Pieces: 12.26.19

Saturday night D.J. and live music in Southampton and Sag Harbor

A Foodie Destination That's Capital

Anyone who hasn't visited "the swamp" (as Donald Trump loves to refer to the District) in the last decade or so, and perhaps plans to during election year, is in for a great surprise. At least on the culinary front.

School Bucks Compulsory Vaccinations

The Southampton School District has joined the growing list of schools that have come out against a state proposal to make the HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccine mandatory for children born after Jan. 1, 2009.

Firefighters Battled Bridgehampton House Fire for 10 Hours

On one of the coldest days of the year, a fire broke out in a large house in Bridgehampton Thursday afternoon. 

Online Front Opens in Wind War

Citizens for the Preservation of Wainscott, a group that formed to oppose the landing of the South Fork Wind Farm’s export cable at the ocean beach at the end of Beach Lane in that hamlet, is mounting an online campaign urging people to tell the New York State Public Service Commission to reject the proposed 130-megawatt installation to be situated approximately 35 miles off Montauk.     

Criminal Justice Reforms Spell Big Costs, Chief Warns

With New York State’s sweeping criminal justice reform law about to go into effect, the chief of the East Hampton Town Police Department and an assistant town attorney briefed the town board about impacts they predicted would be commensurately broad.

Bought Boat on eBay, Beached It in Montauk, Beat the Charges and Bolted

East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky has dismissed two misdemeanor charges against Matthew Hunt, a 21-year-old would-be sailor from Arizona who ran his used sailboat onto a Montauk beach in September just two days after buying it on eBay.     

Rain Suspends Shellfishing

A New York State Department of Environmental Conservation conditional shellfish harvest program that was to open the northern section of Accabonac Harbor yesterday has been postponed at least until Tuesday because of the recent rainfall.     

The Christmas Bird Count Cometh

The first Montauk Christmas Bird Count was in 1938, and though there were a couple of wartime years when it did not take place, it is one of the oldest annual bird counts still running, according to Brent Bomkamp, one of the coordinators of this year’s event on Saturday.  

Wi-Fi to the Rescue at Springs School?

On light of the difficulty in making and receiving calls, the Springs School Board weighed updating policy to allow students and staff to use the school's Wi-Fi network for personal reasons during lunchtime and other breaks, specifically because cellphone data connections are unreliable in the hamlet.