Villages

The Jewish Center of the Hamptons is calling on the Hamptons International Film Festival to cancel the screening of a documentary by Israeli filmmakers that the festival’s guide describes as detailing “the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.” 

Eighteen senior citizens over age 90 were honored by East Hampton Town with a proclamation at the American Legion Hall in Amagansett in a celebration of the town nutrition program’s 52nd year.

This guide, with a cover featuring paintings by Eric Fischl, is from the first annual Hamptons International Film Festival here. Here’s a quick story of its start.

The East Hampton Town Trustees’ Largest Clam Contest will now be held on Saturday, Oct. 10, from noon to 3 p.m. Would-be contestants can begin harvesting on Oct. 3.

The Montauk Historical Society has appointed David Bunn Martine, an artist who ran the Shinnecock Museum for 20 years, as director of its Montaukett Indian Museum, which is on the grounds of Second House.

This year’s SpringsFest, a benefit for Heart of Springs, will take place on Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Parsons Blacksmith Shop, with performances by three local bands, a craft fair with 15 local vendors, refreshments, yard games, raffles, a blacksmith demonstration, and a history lesson from Hugh King, the town historian.

The Bridgehampton Target, set to open in the space long occupied by Kmart, is the smallest of seven Targets opening across the country in October, but at about 90,000 square feet it will be the largest retail store east of Riverhead.

Reaching far enough back to reference horse and wagon, and lo and behold, in 2001 three days of northeast winds wreaked shoreline havoc.

Vincent Waddey Vigorita and Victoria Marilyn Schlaepfer of Park City, Utah, were married on Sept. 12 at the Roundtree in Amagansett.

The antifungal pesticide Broadform, previously banned by the D.E.C., has been found to be effective against beech leaf disease in a far lower dose. Arbortech, a fungicide that is injected rather than sprayed, has also shown some effectiveness with less of an environmental impact.

ChangeHampton will host a Bio-Blitz, a citizen-scientist training initiative at the Community Pollinator Garden and Native Grassland Meadows on the East Hampton Town Hall campus. 

Hamptons Whodunit, the festival that brings mystery and thriller fiction authors as well as true crime experts to East Hampton Village each spring, is expanding from its local origins with the first true crime weekend in Savannah, Ga. 

The lengthy, arduous, but money-saving effort to preserve the old Napeague lifesaving station, still in use at Star Island.

Never before, and never again, will there be such an opportune but fast-fading moment, Sylvia Earle said at Guild Hall, to reverse or slow the trends in biodiversity loss and changes to the atmosphere and oceans.

Lucia (LuLu) Lee and Mack Dowdall were married on Saturday at the Mulford Farm in East Hampton, with Mark Toubin officiating. A reception followed at their house in East Hampton.

Nearly 60 years ago, a halcyon family outing turned into in unforgettable experience when a mysterious glowing craft suddenly appeared overhead, hovering in eerie silence before vanishing over the horizon without a trace, leaving a stunned family convinced they had witnessed something not of this world. 

History runs deep here, and The Star has been there to record it.

This photo from The Star’s archive shows a two-horse-powered threshing machine at the Water Mill farm of Charles E. Halsey in 1897. On Saturday, a panel discussion, “Returning to Our Roots: East Hampton’s New Farms,” comes to the library.

A reliable cellphone signal is no longer a convenience but a necessity, and during summer months residents say it’s nearly impossible to access service in some areas because of increased strain on networks.

Yom Kippur will be observed with services in East Hampton and Sag Harbor beginning on Sunday evening.

From the other Winston Churchill to 1926 astonishment that someone, anyone, overwintered here.

Caitlin Virginia Fasano and Dallas Aden Bennett remembered their July 23 wedding as “the event of the century, full of love and joy and cookies and drinks.”

Just shy of his 85th birthday, Dick Monahan, a lifeguard at Kirk Park in Montauk, will hang up his whistle at the end of this season.

On May 26, 1874, David H. Huntting (1815-1885) gave an address to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the First Presbyterian Church of East Hampton’s Sunday school.

Twenty-five years on, the terrible events of that day remain seared into the memories of those who experienced it, whether up close in Manhattan or more than 100 miles away in East Hampton Town, on what was shaping up to be a perfect late-summer day.

The Jewish High Holy Days begin with the observance of Rosh Hashana Friday evening. Here’s the schedule for the Jewish Center of the Hamptons, Temple Adas Israel, Chabad of the Hamptons, and Gesher | The Bridge Shul.

Father-and-son baseball, dooryard gardens, and 9/11.

Were it not for Sept. 11, 2001, you’d not be reading these words. I’d still be living in the city and might never have become a writer.

What’s the answer to the tick problem on the East End? Mountain lions? Genetically engineered mice? Deer-feeding stations? Deer-killing stations? Insecticides? All solutions were discussed at a talk sponsored by the Perfect Earth Project titled “Ticknology.”

Harold (Herb) Herbert opened Herb’s Market in 1963. It was a grocery store, deli, and butcher shop, and became an unofficial social center of Montauk — a place where both locals and visitors could gather, catch up with one another, share stories, and always feel welcome.