Mary Ella Reutershan Richard, a former East Hampton and Amagansett resident and community leader, died yesterday at Peconic Landing in Greenport.

A celebration of the life of Barbara Renkens Oeffner will be held on Aug. 25 at 2 p.m. at the East Hampton Methodist Church. Mrs. Oeffner, who grew up in East Hampton and graduated from high school here, died on Jan. 24. She lived in Moore Haven, Fla., but visited family here every year.

Concerts, puppet shows, arts and crafts workshops, magic, and more to make the summer even more fun.

The Writers hope to add to their winning streak over the Artists on Saturday, after winning 12-8 in the 2018 Artists and Writers Softball Game.

Stephen Rosen of East Hampton, an astrophysicist and expert on cosmic radiation, will give a talk about the continuing significance of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity at the Cutchogue New Suffolk Library on Friday at 6 p.m. 

“I was one of the first people to kind of take things out of the trash," said Todd Merrill of his early acquisitions of the modern furniture Christie’s and Sotheby’s auction houses would dump at Tepper Galleries in New York,

A woman from Nova Scotia hit an electric utility pole on Route 114 at about 5:20 a.m. on Saturday, closing a portion of the main thoroughfare between Sag Harbor and East Hampton for nearly 12 hours.

After a long stretch of clear days, Tuesday's forecast was for rain and thunder, and the sky delivered. This did not keep a few people from heading to Main Beach, giving the mostly bored staff and lifeguards a little something to do.

Recently and almost in passing, an East Hampton Town Board member observed that it might be necessary to seek outside help for the Ordinance Enforcement Department. At the moment, the town lists eight field employees and one clerk in the department directory, but three work only part time. This small group is supposed to provide seven-day-a-week coverage, taking on everything and anything not otherwise in the purview of town police.

All agreed new helping hands are harder than ever to recruit. This has led to a graying of the volunteer work force, in which a 50-year-old can feel that he or she is the springyist chicken in the coop.

Thirty-seven emails arrived over­night on Monday, but I wasn’t able to access them because I had mislaid my computer. Left it at work, actually.

The men would walk from the trains after getting to the end of the line, pay for their beer, and walk back to get ready for the ride back to New York.

After 20 or more years of faithful service, our overstuffed dryer gave a sad little grunt and wheezed to a stop, leaving many too many wet beach towels behind.

The Broadway legend offered encouragement to a young composer and conductor, and it stuck with her for a lifetime.

Was it so long ago that I wrote about the articulate students, survivors of the Stoneman Douglas mass shooting, who had come to the March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C., to speak eloquently of their suffering?

A Hamptons Cannabis Expo at the Clubhouse, pop-up piercings on East Hampton's Main Street, and a heck of a shoe sale at the American Legion in Amagansett.

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

Fireworks Show
East Hampton
August 10, 2019

To the Editor,

The Strides for Life 3-miler in Southampton Sunday morning drew a field of around 600 and made significant fund-raising strides as well for the Lung Cancer Research Foundation, to the tune of about $365,000.

The recent graduate of Messiah College in Pennsylvania, who was the nation’s leading scorer in men’s soccer in the fall, has signed a contract with Stumptown Athletic of Charlotte, N.C., an entry in the newly formed National Independent Soccer Association.