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Candemir Eyes Fourth Strongman Nationals

Cristian Candemir, a 30-year-old Montauker, will compete in the Strongman Corporation’s under-200-pound national amateur championships in Las Vegas on Sept. 12 and 13.

Aug 28, 2025
Hampton Classic, Now 50, Is Still Spry

The Hampton Classic Horse Show leaped into action at the Snake Hollow Road showgrounds in Bridgehampton Sunday with leadline classes for 2 through 7-year-olds judged by Joe Fargis, an Olympic gold medalist.

Aug 28, 2025
Liga Loses for First Time in 7-on-7 Soccer

Liga de Gulag, riding high in the 7-on-7 men’s soccer league Tuesday evenings in Herrick Park, experienced its first loss of the season on Aug. 19. Plus a wood bat league update.

Aug 28, 2025
On the Water: An Eye on Hurricanes

We are nearing the peak of hurricane season, which usually arrives in the middle of September, and any that come close to our area in the next few weeks will no doubt affect those who wet a line.

Aug 28, 2025
Almost 800 Ran at Ellen’s 5K Sunday

This year’s Ellen’s Run on Sunday in Southampton was up for grabs, and Karl von Sanden, a 23-year-old Uruguayan, took full advantage, leading wire to wire, while Penelope Greene of Noyac, a recent Geneseo grad, was tops among females.

Aug 21, 2025
Fifth Slow-Pitch Title for Northbar Team

For the fifth year in a row, Northbar Properties (formerly East End Land Planning) won the East Hampton Town women’s slow-pitch softball playoff trophy last Thursday, this time defeating Montauk Dental 15-3 to complete a two-game sweep at the Terry King ball field in Amagansett.

Aug 21, 2025
Hampton Classic to Start on Sunday

The weeklong Hampton Classic Horse Show, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, is to open Sunday at the Snake Hollow Road showgrounds in Bridgehampton with leadline classes from 8 a.m. for 2 through 7-year-olds in the Grand Prix ring.

Aug 21, 2025
Happy Ending at Last for Writers

“We’re not about to lose to those guys three years in a row,” a delighted Mike Lupica said in the joyous — for the Writers — aftermath of Saturday’s Artists and Writers Softball Game at East Hampton’s Herrick Park.

Aug 21, 2025
Liga de Gulag Triumphs Over Sag Harbor United

Liga de Gulag, a team of young players, continued undefeated in 7-on-7 men’s soccer play last week, upping its record to 6-0-0 by virtue of a 4-3 win over Sag Harbor United at East Hampton Village’s Herrick Park on Aug. 12.

Aug 21, 2025
On the Water: Times Have Changed

These days there are far fewer folks fishing from their boats or from shore in Sag Harbor than there were 30 years ago. This year I’ve probably seen around five boats fishing all season from my vantage point on Shelter Island Sound.

Aug 21, 2025
Artists-Writers Game, Tennis Pro-Am, Ellen’s Run Ahead

This weekend will be an active one, with the Artists and Writers Softball Game at Herrick Park, the Johnny Mac Tennis Project pro-am at Sportime, and Ellen’s Run in Southampton.

Aug 14, 2025
Eyeing a Role Model’s Legacy

Susie DiSunno, the Kendall Madison Foundation’s most recent scholarship awardee, was welcomed by board members at Alan Patricof’s house in East Hampton Saturday morning for an informal gathering to continue the mentoring mission.

Aug 14, 2025
Hoops Tourneys Aid Worthy Work

Hoops 4 Hope, which aids at-risk children in Zimbabwe and South Africa, and the LuMind Foundation, which improves the lives of those with Down syndrome, benefited from hotly contested basketball tournaments at Sportime in Amagansett.

Aug 14, 2025
On the Water: On the Drift

Before you know it, it’ll be the middle of October, when the season for blackfish begins. So I canceled my regular morning of tennis to take an early drive to Montauk to fish for fluke and sea bass aboard the Simple Life.

Aug 14, 2025
Hampton Lifeguards Win Spots on U.S. Team

The Hampton Lifeguard Association finished an impressive fifth in the United States Life Saving Association's national tournament in California last week, but the biggest news coming out of the tourney was that four of H.L.A.'s U-19s qualified to compete for the U.S. team in the International Surf Rescue Challenge in New Zealand.

Aug 11, 2025
25 Years Ago in Bonac Sports 08.07.25

A look back to when Ross Gload was a top major league prospect, and lifeguards in an invitational tournament here did themselves proud, once again.

Aug 7, 2025
On the Water: Boating Trepidation

I'm ashamed to admit that I've done very little fishing this season. But I have a good reason.

Aug 7, 2025
Seize the Moment, Adam Fine Suggests

“This is one of those rare opportunities when you don’t have to ask taxpayers for money to do the things that improve students’ lives,” the district superintendent said of the newly paid down construction bond.

Aug 7, 2025
‘Entire Town’ Was at Travis Field Tourney

Seventeen teams, at least two of them including present-day and former East Hampton High School students on their rosters, went at it in A and B brackets over the weekend in Amagansett.

Aug 7, 2025
East Hampton Women Shine in Lifeguard Events

The East Hampton Town and East Hampton Village entries topped the women’s field in last Thursday’s Main Beach invitational lifeguard tournament, while the town’s men’s A team finished third, behind Smith Point and Jones Beach.

Jul 31, 2025
Hobbled at 5, Abran Now Runs Like the Wind

Ryder Abran, a key figure in the East Hampton Little League’s county-finalist 10-U all-star team’s most recent season, has overcome a disease that can reduce the ball of the hip’s ball-and-socket joint to putty by interrupting blood flow.

Jul 31, 2025
Marine’s Heroism Is Cited at Sag Harbor Run

At the Jordan’s Run 5K, which starts just off the hill at the foot of Jordan Haerter’s alma mater, Pierson High School, two more recent grads, Justin Gardiner and Penelope Greene, finished first and second on Sunday.

Jul 31, 2025
On the Water: It’s Shark Month

Last week, Capt. Rich Jensen, who keeps a charter boat at Orient, did something different. He had an open date and took some friends and family out on the water to catch and release sharks.

Jul 31, 2025
Ospreys’ Walk-Off Wins H.A.H. Crown

Thanks to the pitching of Max Kra and a walk-off hit by Alex Schuchard in the bottom of the seventh inning, the East End Ospreys repeated as the Hamptons Adult Hardball league’s champion Sunday in Bridgehampton.

Jul 31, 2025
Travis Field Tourney Through Sunday

A coed double-elimination softball tournament played each year in memory of Travis Field, who died at age 20 in a car accident in 2008, is to begin at 5 p.m. Thursday with opening ceremonies at the Terry King ball field in Amagansett.

Jul 31, 2025
N.B.A. Photographer Glad He Gave It a Shot

Nat Butler, a Montauk native, has taken extraordinary photos of N.B.A. players on and off the court over the years, as is abundantly evident in his recently published book, “Courtside: 40 Years of NBA Photography.” At 62, he’s still at it.

Jul 24, 2025
On the Water: Sweating It Out

On Sunday, I took four of my friends on the water with Capt. Rob Aaronson of the charter boat Oh Brother. It was my first time fishing out of Montauk this season, and it was good to be back home.

Jul 24, 2025
‘You’re in Control,’ Beach Legend Says

“You decide who you are,” Kerri Walsh Jennings, the beach volleyball Olympian, told 50 young people at East Hampton High Monday morning, a day after her surprise visit to the junior lifeguard program at Atlantic Avenue Beach. “You choose what to focus on.”

Jul 24, 2025
A Paddle to Block, H.L.A. Swim-Runs

The week ahead will feature the Hampton Lifeguard Association’s run-swim-run tomorrow at Atlantic Avenue Beach in Amagansett and what could be the last 18-mile Paddlers 4 Humanity paddle from Montauk Point to Block Island Saturday.

Jul 17, 2025
A Rarity in East Hampton’s Little League Annals

The East Hampton Little League’s 10-U all-star baseball team became one of only a few in local annals to advance to sectional competition.

Jul 17, 2025