The Montauk Lighthouse will undergo repair beginning this summer and major restoration of its protective seawall is to begin in the fall. These are costly endeavors — more than $1 million for the tower and $24 million for the stonework — but in the minds of many, well worth it.

Town and county officials are going to have a difficult time convincing anyone that the cause of a rash of earaches and other infections among people who surf and swim at Ditch Plain has been caused by anything other than wastewater effluent from the adjacent mobile home park.

Using the word “resource” to describe the East Hampton Library doesn’t do it justice.

The woman’s wedding ring was out there, somewhere in the sand. Her husband thought he had a pretty good idea where, but it was not to be.

Worn out, the worse for wear, working for The Star and longshoring on the side in the sweet summertime, it has really, finally become apparent: I’m not a young man.

Playing Major League Baseball might have been my dream come true. Or my death sentence.

The 42nd Infantry Division Band of the New York Army National Guard will perform at the Montauk Lighthouse on Monday at 2 p.m. The 90-minute show will feature a 28-piece band performing jazz, rock, and patriotic songs.

The presidential game is not over, many Americans being frightfully capable of being fooled twice. That the economy is rolling along is nice, though you do wonder how much people are making and how many jobs they are working.

East End home sales in the second quarter were at an eight-year low, according to a report from the Douglas Elliman agency.

The Beach Butler, a business that seeks to make going to the beach stress-free by providing shuttle service as well as chairs, umbrellas, tables, and cabana hoods, has opened a South Fork branch.

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

Vital to All
East Hampton
July 26, 2019

Dear David:

The Sag Harbor course of Jordan’s Run, a 5K in memory of Marine Lance Cpl. Jordan C. Haerter, who lost his life in saving those of 150 fellow servicemen in Ramadi, Iraq, in 2008, took its 448 participants by Pierson High School, from which he’d graduated, across the bridge to North Haven named after him, and along Oakland Cemetery, where he is buried.

At dawn on Aug. 10, a Paddlers 4 Humanity fleet of 50 or so paddleboarders and kayakers is to set forth for Block Island from the foot of the Montauk Lighthouse, and it goes without saying that the roughly 18-mile crossing is challenging.

East Hampton Soccer Fever and Maidstone Market played to 1-1 ties in two games in the 7-on-7 league’s regular season, but in the playoff final at East Hampton’s Herrick Park last week, it was all Maidstone.

Town and village ocean lifeguard squads from East Hampton to as far as Jones Beach gathered at Main Beach last Thursday to compete in the 33rd annual Main Beach Ocean Lifeguard Tournament.

Bonac's 11-and-under softballers take third place upstate, and an East Hampton paddler embarks on a 25-mile race around Manhattan on Saturday.

It's Travis Field benefit softball tourney time, while a benefit paddle happens at Havens Beach on Saturday. And don't forget the junior lifeguarding competition at Indian Wells this weekend.

“I don’t like art that is like somebody else’s stuff,” said Candace Hill Montgomery during a conversation in her Bridgehampton backyard. “I have a real hatred of things that are not original. Does it reference somebody else’s work? That’s fine. But not when it’s basically a copy.”

The dead adult humpback whale towed to the Montauk ocean beach last week is just one of several humpbacks that we have been reading about this year in the local newspapers. There have been many sightings offshore and even in Great South Bay and other estuarine water bodies.