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Large Leadline Classes Get the Classic Going

The Hampton Classic began early Sunday with leadline classes for 2-through-7-year-olds aboard ponies as a three-time Olympian, Joe Fargis, watched them pass back and forth, posing questions having to do with horsemanship.

Aug 29, 2024
On the Water: Last Call for Lobsters

I was surprised to see in my logbook that my lobster catch was better than expected this year, although lobsters in our local waters have been on a downswing for decades.

Aug 29, 2024
Shulman Desiderio Wins Classic’s Open Jumper Challenge

Sunday’s main event at the Hampton Classic, the $30,000 Open Jumper Challenge, was won by Sydney Shulman Desiderio and Villamoura, topping a field of 41.

Aug 29, 2024
Artists Draw Even, and Win in Extra Innings

In what possibly was the longest Artists and Writers Softball Game ever played, the Artists wound up prevailing 11-10 in the bottom of the 12th inning at East Hampton Village’s Herrick Park Saturday before a sizable crowd.

Aug 22, 2024
Eight Olympians to Ride at Hampton Classic

Some 1,600 riders and horses, Olympians among them, are to begin strutting their stuff at the weeklong Hampton Classic Horse Show in Bridgehampton on Sunday.

Aug 22, 2024
Fourth Ellen’s Run Win in a Row for Avramenko

Sergey Avramenko, a native of Belarus who lives in Hampton Bays, topped a field of 716 at Ellen’s Run in Southampton Sunday in support of the Ellen Hermanson Foundation’s work here to diagnose and treat breast cancer.

Aug 22, 2024
On the Water: The Oyster King

A trip to the North Fork to pick up 1,000 oyster spat from the Cornell Cooperative Extension Marine Center means it was time to replenish my North Haven stock.

Aug 22, 2024
Artists-Writers, Run, Swim, Paddle on Tap

Coming this weekend are Paddlers for Humanity’s Montauk Point to Block Island paddle and the Southampton Village Ocean Rescue squad’s long-distance swims at Cooper’s Beach Saturday morning, the Artists and Writers Softball Game at East Hampton Village’s Herrick Park that afternoon, and Ellen’s Run at the Southampton Intermediate School on Sunday morning.

Aug 15, 2024
Local Lifeguards Were 5th at Nationals

The Hampton Lifeguard Association’s team in the national lifesaving tournament held last week on South Padre Island in Texas finished fifth among the 25 contending entries from around the country, a significant improvement from a year ago.

Aug 15, 2024
Many Goals in Men’s 7-on-7 Soccer Clashes

Tortorella Pools and Maidstone Market continue to contend for the lead and the playoffs’ top seed in 7-on-7 men’s soccer action Tuesday evenings at Herrick Park in East Hampton Village.

Aug 15, 2024
Stony Hill Stables Turns 60

This year, Stony Hill Stables in Amagansett is celebrating 60 years in business, most of them under the ownership of the Hotchkiss family.

Aug 15, 2024
A Lively Weekend at Terry King Field

The Raptors, a Montauk team made up largely of Daunts and Davises, won the 16th Travis Field Memorial softball tournament Sunday night, besting Taste Our Sauce 4-3 thanks to a walk-off hit by Anthony Daunt. Plus a 3-on-3 Hoops 4 Hope basketball tourney at Sportime.

Aug 8, 2024
Ellen's Run 5K Celebrates Life and Friendship

More than a race, Ellen's Run, which is in its 29th year, is about support and camaraderie. The race sets off from the Southampton Intermediate School on Aug. 18.

Aug 8, 2024
On Keeping the Rugby Flame Lit

Kevin Bunce Sr., who has been keeping the ball rolling for the Montauk Rugby Club, said that his 7s squad been a winner or a runner-up in a half-dozen U-23 tournaments. The goal now "is to get enough guys involved so that Montauk can field a 15s side again."

Aug 8, 2024
On the Water: Rough Day on the Boat

At daybreak, I went to check my lobster traps off to the east, but before we ventured forth, I wanted to do a bit of fishing on the east side of Gardiner's Island. Fluke and sea bass were the intended quarry. My expectations were very low. Let me explain.

Aug 8, 2024
Springs Woman Reaches New Heights . . . on Kilimanjaro

At the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro on June 21, Summer Romeo told her fellow hikers that she could never do the climb again. “We were literally crying from sleep deprivation, agony, headaches, and nausea.” But by journey's end, she was already thinking ahead to her next adventure.

Aug 1, 2024
On the Water: A Hearty Response

After finishing dinner on our outdoor patio overlooking Shelter Island Sound the other day, we noticed a canoe with a man, woman, and child in it moving rapidly on the strong incoming full-moon tide. It was getting dark and they were too far from the beach.

Jul 31, 2024
Bonac Trackster Tops Jordan’s 5K

Edmar Nateras, a 17-year-old Sag Harborite who runs with East Hampton High School’s boys winter and spring track teams, won Jordan’s Run Sunday, a 5K based at Pierson High School in Sag Harbor, where he runs cross-country.

Jul 30, 2024
East End Ospreys Take First Hardball Title

The East End Ospreys laid a hurtin’ on the Kraken at the Bridgehampton School’s field last Thursday evening, pummeling the former two-time champion 10-2 to win the deciding game of the Hamptons Adult Hardball League’s best-of-three final series.

Jul 30, 2024
Jones Beach Wins East Hampton Lifeguard Tourney

The Jones Beach lifeguard team topped 17 other entrants from beaches all over Long Island, including half a dozen from East Hampton, in last Thursday’s Main Beach invitational tournament, winning both the men’s and women’s divisions.

Jul 30, 2024
Ocean Swims and Jordan’s 5K on Tap

Coming up this weekend are the two-mile, one-mile, and half-mile ocean challenge swims at Kirk Park Beach benefiting the Montauk Playhouse, and Jordan’s Run, a 5K road race in Sag Harbor that commemorates Lance Cpl. Jordan C. Haerter.

Jul 25, 2024
Of Lifeguards and Sprint Triathletes

Vanessa Rizzo, 14, and Matteo Somma, 17, won races here over the weekend. Somma, who lives in Malverne, topped a field of 443 in the Montauk Lighthouse sprint triathlon, and Rizzo of Sagaponack won the Hampton Lifeguard Association’s Run-Swim-Run at Amagansett’s Atlantic Avenue Beach.

Jul 25, 2024
On the Water: In the Saddle Too Soon

We are in full-scale summer mode as August approaches. In Montauk stripers are still running, and the same is true for fluke and a plethora of undersize sea bass.

Jul 25, 2024
Summertime Hoops With a Pro at Ross

Some 80 young basketball players spent Monday afternoon at the Ross School in Bridgehampton drilling their footwork, practicing dribbling and ball-handling skills, shooting hoops, and simulating offensive and defensive tactics under the expert eye of a celebrity coach: John Wallace, a former Knicks player visiting for a junior basketball clinic.

Jul 25, 2024
The Kraken Wins Hardball Final’s First Game

The Kraken pitched well, fielded well, and hit well in Sunday’s Hamptons Adult Hardball League’s championship series opener against the East End Ospreys at the Bridgehampton School.

Jul 25, 2024
Men’s Soccer: There’s No Room at the Top

Sag Harbor United tightened the East Hampton 7-on-7 men’s soccer league race by defeating last fall’s champion, Maidstone Market, 4-3 at Herrick Park on July 9.

Jul 18, 2024
Michael Potts: Montauk Fishing Legend of the Year

It’s appropriate that Michael Potts will be honored on Sunday afternoon as the Montauk Fishing Legend of the Year at the Montauk Grand Slam fishing tournament that Henry Uihlein has hosted at his marina for nearly three decades.

Jul 18, 2024
Montauk the Winner at Rell Sunn Contest

Every July for over two decades, Montauk has come together in the spirit of Rell Sunn, the surfing champion, to raise money for those in need. This year’s proceeds from the contest will benefit the Montauk Food Pantry and Concerned Citizens of Montauk.

Jul 18, 2024
On the Water: Crab King and Big Stripers

I trapped 15 lobsters on July 8. That was the good news. The bad was that the Yanmar diesel engine on my Rock Water encountered problems on the return trip to Sag Harbor.

Jul 18, 2024
Three Rizzos Finish in Youth Triathlon’s Top Five

An estimated 150 I-Tri girls, members of Theresa Roden’s widely praised empowerment program that is in middle schools spanning Mastic to Montauk, participated Sunday in a youth triathlon at Noyac’s Long Beach.

Jul 18, 2024