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The Atlantic Marine Conservation Society could not say for sure without seeing the whale up close what species it was. It was found on an East Hampton Village beach Wednesday morning. Another Whale Washes Up, This Time in East Hampton Village

A second whale washed up dead on the South Fork this week, in East Hampton Village, just two days after one was found on the Amagansett shore.

Sep 26, 2018
Nona Hendryx, best known as part of the trio Labelle, will perform in a fund-raiser for Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic Friday at Bay Street Theater. Musicians Will Rock for Reproductive Rights in Sag Harbor

A 16-year-old activist wants to help support Planned Parenthood with the help of musicians and artists, such as Nona Hendryx, Vernon Reid and Friends, and the Zach Zunis Band, who will perform at a benefit on Friday in Sag Harbor.

Sep 25, 2018
An East Hampton Town Marine Patrol officer watched over a dead minke whale that was found on Indian Wells Beach Monday afternoon. Update: Necropsy Performed on Whale That Washed Ashore in Amagansett

The Atlantic Marine Conservation Society performed a necropsy on the dead minke whale that washed ashore on Indian Wells Beach in Amagansett Monday.

Sep 24, 2018
Mr. Jones’s Watch Paper

Item of the Week From the East Hampton Library Long Island Collection

Sep 20, 2018
The Democratic primary will be held on Thursday. In Calling Lys Liar, Reform Dems Are Called Out

David Gruber and his East Hampton Reform Democrats have falsely accused David Lys, the East Hampton Democratic Committee's nominee, of lying about casting a write-in vote for his father in the 2016 presidential election.

Sep 11, 2018
East Hampton Village’s assistant beach managers said the Main Beach staff’s whole summer had been ruined because the village board decided on a new swimsuit policy based on the complaints of just two people. Bikini Orders Said to Have Come From Village Board

Three East Hampton Village assistant beach managers resigned in protest last Thursday, saying the board had recommended new uniforms for female lifeguards against their advice and that they were being “made the scapegoats” for the decision.

Sep 6, 2018
East Hampton Town police were called to 117 Waterhole Road in Springs on Sunday at about 11:10 p.m. when a man was found unresponsive in the pool. Apparent Drowning in Pool at Springs House

Brett Friedberg, 22, of Port Washington was found floating in the pool at a house on Waterhole Road late Sunday night.

Sep 3, 2018
Mike Lupica, one of The Game’s stalwarts, was the traditional turnip’s designated hitter. Artists Brushed Off

The Artists and Writers Softball Game didn’t set an attendance record at East Hampton’s Herrick Park Saturday afternoon, though the Scribes and Paletteers went at it with gusto as they always have — for 70 years, it is said — and, in the end, the Writers had the last word, winning 12-8.

Aug 22, 2018
"There is an infrastructure put in place to facilitate this criminal activity," District Attorney Timothy D. Sini, at the microphone, said during a press conference on an Aug. 15 drug bust in Montauk. Is There a Culture of Complacency?

Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini took a hard line with restaurant owners at a press conference last week after a major drug bust in Montauk.

Aug 22, 2018
Jay Hamel, who has owned Murf's Backstreet Tavern since 2007, has put the Division Street bar on the market after some serious problems with the New York State Liquor Authority. Murf's in Sag Harbor Hits the Market

Murf's Backstreet Tavern has received a slew of State Liquor Authority violations, including being a "disorderly premise" and source of noise and nuisance in Sag Harbor.

Aug 13, 2018
The old Harborview Professional Building will be demolished to make way for a new Sag Harbor Village park. Making Way for a New Sag Harbor Park

Abandoned buildings on three waterfront parcels in Sag Harbor will be demolished starting on Monday, readying them to become a park linked by land and water to Windmill Park and Long Wharf.

Aug 7, 2018
After first signing Brooke Stimpson’s space suit, Col. Randolph Bresnik, a NASA astronaut who had been commander of the International Space Station, autographed a photograph of himself at Guild Hall.	Iris Smyles Photos Sheets to the Wind: The Stars

Col. Randolph Bresnik, a NASA astronaut who had been commander of the International Space Station, delivered a talk before a series of photos from his various space missions, most of them of the Earth viewed from the space station, most of them, not looking out, but looking back.

Aug 2, 2018
A warrant was executed at a house on Railroad Avenue, off Abraham's Path, in East Hampton shortly before 6 a.m. on Sunday. East Hampton House Had 32 Occupants, Town Says

The majority of people in a house off Abraham's Path were out-of-towners working for local businesses, according to officials, and 18 of them were sleeping on mattresses on the floor of a basement with no smoke or carbon monoxide detectors.

Jul 30, 2018
The dining table doubles as an assembly line for Lisa-Jae Eggert, left, and Jennifer Decker of 3 Moms Organics, who mix, fill, and label every bottle of their TickWise Protector repellent themselves. Kitchen Table Front in War on Ticks

Two large measuring cups of coconut oil, shea butter, and beeswax bubbled in a water bath on the kitchen stove on Friday, as Jennifer Decker and Lisa-Jae Eggert of 3 Moms Organics sat at a dining table filling four-ounce plastic bottles with a concoction of witch hazel, distilled water, vinegar, and essential oils aimed at repelling one of nature’s most feared pests.

Jul 19, 2018
Holly Rubenstein has kept a lot of balls in the air over the past couple of years as the Clubhouse at East Hampton Indoor Tennis, which opens today, has taken shape. Clubhouse Opens Today

It’s been a while coming, two and a half years in fact, but the Clubhouse, the massive pleasure palace annexed to East Hampton Indoor Tennis’s six indoor courts officially opens today, at 11 a.m. to be precise.

Jul 11, 2018
A recent study conducted as part of East Hampton Town's coastal assessment resiliency plan found that, in terms of storm surge, East Hampton Village, above, and Napeague "have the highest exposed dollar value" in the short and long term. Billions in Hamptons Real Estate at Risk on Shore

A recent study of the impact of sea level rise on coastal communities in the continental United States predicted that, by the year 2045, billions of dollars of East End real estate will be at risk of severe flooding.

Jul 5, 2018
Nicole Miller, with Pamela Wright, right, co-founder of the Museum of Democracy, sold one of these hand-painted paper dresses over the weekend at her pop-up shop in the Bridgehampton Museum. Nicole Miller Cares, U Should Too

Nicole Miller's paper dresses at the Bridgehampton Museum celebrate America's democracy with a clear message of justice and egalitarianism.

Jun 27, 2018
Perry Gershon, who was victorious Tuesday in New York's First Congressional District Democrat primary, cast his ballot at the East Hampton Firehouse earlier in the day. Gershon Appears to Be Democrats' Choice to Face Zeldin

Perry Gershon of East Hampton is the apparent winner in New York's First Congressional District primary election and will be the Democratic Party's nominee to challenge Representative Lee Zeldin in the midterm election on Nov. 6.

Jun 26, 2018
The Montauk Brewing Company In Sixth Summer, Montauk Brewing Company Is Going Strong

In its first summer, the Montauk Brewing Company sold about 535 barrels of beer to 17 restaurants, delivering the kegs by bicycle. Six years later, the company, founded by Montauk natives Eric Moss, Joe Sullivan, and Vaughn Cutillo, expects to sell about 40,000 barrels in hundreds of establishments.

Jun 21, 2018
East Hampton Town Police Chief Michael Sarlo, who is hosting the Bocks this week, says that no one prepares as well for tournaments as his longtime friend, above. A Homecoming for Duane Bock at U.S. Open

This week has been a homecoming for Duane Bock, a Bonacker born and bred, who since graduating from East Hampton High in 1985 has made his way in the world of professional golf, first as a high-level player and then, for the past 13 years, as a caddie on the P.G.A. tour.

Jun 13, 2018
Police searched the area off Atlantic Avenue Beach in Amagansett on Friday. Police Call Off Search for Missing Plane Crash Victim

Eleven days after a plane carrying four people crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off Amagansett, police have called off the search for the remaining missing victim, East Hampton Town Police Chief Michael Sarlo said Wednesday afternoon.

Jun 13, 2018
Coast Guard and police boats conducted grid-pattern searches off the Amagansett shoreline throughout the week for the missing plane crash victims. Police Recover Plane, Missing Body

The identity of the body most recently found is being withheld until the Suffolk County medical examiner's office makes a positive identification, Police Chief Michael Sarlo said.

Jun 8, 2018
Jon Dollard is presumed dead after the plane he was flying crashed into the water off Amagansett on Saturday. Pilot Called ‘Full of Life’

Jon Kenneth Dollard Jr.’s family and friends remembered him this week as a cautious pilot who loved working for Ben Krupinski.

Jun 7, 2018
East Hampton Town police are continuing the search for the two missing plane crash victims. Police Back in the Ocean Looking for Plane Crash Victims, Debris

Three days after a plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, police are back in the water looking for two missing victims and parts of the aircraft.

Jun 5, 2018
Ted Morency, a senior at the Ross School, returned to his birthplace, Haiti, earlier this year as a board member of Wings Over Haiti. He is helping the organization raise money to build its second school in the country. Haiti’s Crisis Is Now Ted’s, Too

Ted Morency, a senior at the Ross School, returned to his birthplace, Haiti, earlier this year as a board member of Wings Over Haiti. He is helping the organization raise money to build its second school in the country.

May 31, 2018
Members of the John M. Marshall Elementary School's inaugural Leadership Council, from the first and second semester councils, came together for a photo on Tuesday. Students Get a Boost

There’s some blue-sky thinking going on at the John M. Marshall Elementary School in East Hampton, intended to draw students into decision-making.

May 31, 2018
‘Huge Increase’ in Tick Complaints

A May 1 announcement from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that illnesses from tick, mosquito, and flea bites more than tripled from 2004 through 2016 came as no surprise on the South Fork.

May 31, 2018
Casey Powers, an entrepreneur from East Hampton, joined the new co-working space in Southampton to focus on developing her businesses in a collaborative setting with creative thinkers, an atmosphere that working from home does not foster. Now, a Hub for Digital Nomads

The Spur, a recently opened co-working and entrepreneurial space in Southampton, is a sort of a microenvironment that for a monthly fee offers an attractive work-life balance to a cohort of ambitious remote workers suffering from cabin fever.

May 24, 2018
A Modern Day Abortion Rights Crusader

In 1971, together with the doctor she worked for, Merle Hoffman started Choices, the first legal clinic in the United States to provide abortions.

May 17, 2018
Not only would parking be a problem if the market were in Herrick Park, but “none of the vendors can move to Saturday, they’re all booked,” said Kate Plumb, the coordinator of the East Hampton Farmers Market. Plant Idea of East Hampton Farmers Market Move

A proposal to make Herrick Park the new site for the East Hampton Farmers Market and to reschedule it from Fridays to Saturdays was discussed at the East Hampton Village Board meeting on Friday, but the market’s vendors are reportedly not keen on the idea.

May 10, 2018