A woman was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hosptial Saturday with serious injuries after the car she was a passenger in drove off the road and into the woods on North Haven.
S.U.V. Crashes 60 Feet Into Woods on North HavenA woman was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hosptial Saturday with serious injuries after the car she was a passenger in drove off the road and into the woods on North Haven.
Anna Lytton, Lost Too Young, Still InspiresThe Anna Mirabai Lytton Foundation for Arts and Wellness was started just a week after Anna was struck by a car in East Hampton Village while riding her bicycle to a summer job.
Another Beach, Another BattleAt Driftwood Shores in Springs, it is neighbor versus neighbor over access.
Following My Father’s LeadThe love of fishing is a gift that’s passed down from parent to child like a family heirloom. With Father’s Day around the corner, let’s honor dads that have placed a rod and reel in the hands of their sons and daughters and given them the opportunity to develop a lifetime passion for the sport.
Kids These Days, Speaking in CodeLong gone are the days of school computer labs featuring boxy machines with monochrome green type and simplistic dot-matrix printers.
Lawyers, Judge Spar Over House ConversionThe case of a man accused by the Town of East Hampton of illegally converting a single-family house at 5 Hoover Court in Montauk into a multiple-dwelling residence is headed to a jury trial.
Springs Ponders Takeover of Charter School SpaceA solution to the overcrowding at the Springs School may lie in the building in East Hampton that houses the Child Development Center of the Hamptons, which is to close at the end of the academic year. Liz Mendelman, the Springs School Board president, announced during a meeting of the board on Monday that the district is looking into leasing or purchasing the charter school building from Family Residences and Essential Enterprises, the nonprofit known as FREE, which manages it. FREE owns the building, while the Town of East Hampton owns the land.
Homeowners claim destruction of vegetation, nesting habitat, beach grass; town trustees say the beach is 'in fine, excellent condition.'
Ronald A. King Jr., 39, accused by East Hampton Town police of taking a single mother’s car on Memorial Day weekend and destroying it in a drunken crash, was indicted by a grand jury in Riverside Friday on multiple felony charges.
Music Teachers Hand Baton to SuccessorsWhen the audiences stood for ovations at band and choir concerts over the last two weeks at East Hampton High School, it was clearly the music directors who were being lauded. That’s because the concerts were the last to be conducted by Marilyn Van Scoyoc, the band director, and David Douglas, the choir director, who are retiring.
For months now, a persistent rumor has been circulating that giant cruise ships will start docking in Montauk’s Fort Pond Bay, with thousands of disembarking passengers flooding an already-crowded summertime hot spot.
A memorial plaque donated by the Police Benevolent Association of East Hampton Village in honor of the late Anna Mirabai Lytton, a 14-year-old Springs School student, will be dedicated at a ceremony on Wednesday.
Reunited, And It Feels So GoodLast Sept. 14, which happened to be their 30th anniversary, Tony and Patty Sales went to work in different places, he to the Goldberg’s Bagels in Bridgehampton, she to the one in East Hampton. Ms. Sales, who would as soon crack a joke as breathe, told one and all that after two daughters and three decades of marriage, she and Tony had separated.
Taxis Still Run AmokSome Montauk residents are feeling the sting of swarms of taxis buzzing about the hamlet’s trendy night spots, where, they say, the cabs are creating unpleasant conditions.
The ‘Mother’ of Montauk’s Seven SistersThe Seven Sisters, the landmark houses on the Montauk moorlands east of Ditch Plain, designed by the renowned architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White in the 1880s, are about to meet their mother.
The importance of an obscure event in the history of World War II has been brought home, literally, in recent years with the annual re-enactment of Nazi saboteurs’ landing on the ocean beach near Atlantic Avenue in Amagansett.
‘Miracle’ Rescue of a 2-Year-OldA 2-year-old nearly drowned on June 1 when he fell into the water at a Montauk marina and couldn’t be found for several minutes.
Blue-Green Algae Detected in Wainscott PondThe Suffolk County Department of Health confirmed on Monday that testing had detected a cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, bloom in Wainscott Pond, the first this year in East Hampton Town.
Much of a piece of pre-gentrified Montauk came tumbling down Friday, as a wrecking crew began demolishing the iconic East Deck Motel.
A Tesla Showroom Opens on Newtown LaneResidents and visitors to the South Fork can learn how to bid farewell to the internal combustion engine and reduce their carbon footprint without leaving East Hampton, thanks to the opening on Friday of a Tesla Motors location on Newtown Lane.
Bonac Fireworks FizzleThe Clamshell Foundation announced this week that despite the popularity of the show, which drew hundreds of spectators to the shores and waters of Three Mile Harbor, it would not be able to continue its sponsorship.
Disciplined for PranksSenior pranks gone too far at East Hampton High School have resulted in about 50 students losing the privilege of attending their senior banquet on June 24, school officials said this week.
Fort Pond Reopens DoorsFort Pond House is once again open for use after a three-year renovation and restoration of the house and land. Official opening ceremonies will be held there on Sunday afternoon, beginning at 2.
Jury: Pay Sandpebble $750KIn a dispute with Sandpebble Builders that dates back to 2006, the East Hampton School District has spent more than $3 million in legal fees, but with a New York State Supreme Court decision last week, the costly dispute appears to finally be nearing its end.
Lighthouse Is Next Army Corps FlashpointThe federal agency is moving forward on plans to bolster the stone revetment around Montauk Point and to dredge the Lake Montauk inlet, as well as taking steps to reverse and stem the erosion on the Block Island Sound-front beaches to its west.
No Love Lost Over Luxe Tennis CourtA dispute over a tennis court at 127 Main Street, the former Gardiner estate, landed in the court of the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals on Friday.
Two men who left the scene of accidents last weekend were among a raft of drivers arrested on drunken driving charges.
Single Mother’s Car TotaledA Sag Harbor single mother with a 2-month-old son has been left without a vehicle, after her 2005 Jeep Cherokee was taken without her permission and destroyed, the driver crashing into a LIPA pole, and then into a tree Saturday night in Springs.
Calls for police assistance over the Memorial Day weekend were up from last year’s, although Chief Michael Sarlo of the East Hampton Town Police Department said the overall tenor and tone in the streets was calmer.
A 2-year-old boy nearly drowned when he fell off a boat at the Montauk Lake Club and Marina on Wednesday morning, East Hampton Town police said.
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