Villages

Tens of thousands of spectators are expected in Montauk on Sunday for the 64th annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade, and out front will be Tom Grenci Jr., former police precinct commander and fire chief.

This fire record, lent by the Fire Department to the Long Island Collection for digitization, gives us a glimpse into the early years of firefighting here.

East Hampton Bar Car, a cafe and wine bar, is to open at the Long Island Rail Road station in East Hampton, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the future establishment’s operator.

The next No Kings rally, part of the ever-growing movement protesting the Trump administration, will happen on Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. outside East Hampton Town Hall.

A budget crunch in Sag Harbor Village has officials looking to save money. One way could be by hiking the cost of resident parking stickers from $15 to $25.

From a meeting of the eminent Tiddlywink club to a fish-catching duel between a working Montauk vessel and a government survey dragger, dig into some deep history, won’t you?

On Saturday, March 28, the day of nationwide No Kings rallies protesting the Trump administration, pro-immigrant and anti-ICE activists will walk 40 miles from Montauk to Hampton Bays to raise money and awareness, with stops at Amagansett and Town Hall. Sign-up ends March 26.

Beginning of a great disaster: In 1976, when tick-borne illnesses were unfamiliar here, a Shelter Islander was laid low by one and it was mistakenly thought to be malaria. Plus more bad and sometimes good news ripped from our pages.

Hugh King, the town and village historian, will tell the story of East Hampton’s first performing arts venue on March 27 at 7 p.m. for the next Tom Twomey lecture at the library.

The East Hampton Methodist Church’s pastor, Kenny McQuiller, a cancer survivor himself, will be at the helm of a new cancer care ministry that the church is launching this week.

Scores of municipalities from New Hampshire to Pennsylvania have tightened enforcement and strengthened so-called pooper-scooper laws after the brown stuff, like, bloomed out of the melting snow, causing public outcry.

This photo shows the altar inside Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church as it appeared sometime between 1964 and 1975. Today, St. Philomena still looms large.

The famously brief Am O’Gansett Parade will begin Saturday at 12:01 p.m., led this year by Jim Lubetkin as grand marshal.

Montauk’s 64th annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade, happening at noon on March 29, is free to all. Two popular pre-parade events are likely to sell out, however, so those interested have been advised to secure tickets.

Jennifer DiPretoro experienced coughing fits while on vacation in Madrid. A pulmonologist there told her she had lung cancer, and her low oxygen levels prevented her from flying home. She is now stranded with no health insurance.

A 1951 dance for servicemen from the base in Montauk, Dr. Valenti’s fight for a Napeague fish farm, and summertime house shares. Behold the past.

Approximately 600 dead Canada geese, believed to be victims of avian flu, have been removed from around Georgica Pond in the last two days and buried in the sand, said Jim Grimes, an East Hampton Town trustee.

An array of soups from local chefs will be available for tasting at Project Most’s much-anticipated annual fund-raiser on Sunday.

The name of the game in real estate marketing has always been print, signage, and Main Street storefronts showcasing the latest listings. While East Hampton Village still has about a dozen storefronts where potential buyers can swoon over photographs of what’s for sale, the marketing is shifting.

The story of the Mulfords, their extended family, and their James Lane homestead.

Rowdy Hall in Amagansett is celebrating 30 years in business by launching a 1 Percent for the East End Giving Campaign, in which the locally owned restaurant will donate 1 percent of its monthly revenue to a rotating local charity serving the East End throughout 2026.

Amagansett Main Street’s 1951 makeover, Montauk Youth’s 1976 “Happy Days” dance, and more.

Two important cultural venues in East Hampton Town, LongHouse Reserve and the Brooks-Park Arts and Nature Center, have suffered severe damage as a result of last week’s blizzard: the partial collapse of Buckminster Fuller’s iconic “Fly’s Eye Dome” at LongHouse and the James Brooks studio.

Reports of dead Canada geese in great numbers along the ocean beaches in the waning days of February have announced the arrival of what appears to be a wave of avian influenza here, posing a threat not only to wild birds and domestic poultry but also to pets that “go outside and eat or are exposed to sick or dead birds,” according to the Centers for Disease Control.

Donovan Solis, the owner of Georgica Services, an auto shop known for its high-end, rare, and classic cars, started working there as a teenager — washing windshields at the gas pumps — and at first, he wasn’t even getting paid to do it.

Kelly and John Piccinnini, the new co-owners and sole operators of 1 Main Street in Sag Harbor — more familiarly known as the Corner Bar — spoke this week about the future of the community staple and meeting place.

Much to the chagrin of her captain, the bark Elmiranda never stood a chance once she was caught in one of our area’s thick fogs in April 1894.

Even in the ’20s, the East Hampton basketball team beat Bridgehampton. And even in 2001, the price tag of the Montauk St. Patrick’s Day parade was problematic.

One of the worst snowstorms to ever hit Long Island, dropping the most snow since 1963, blasted the East End, leading to power outages and overwhelming East Hampton Town’s fleet of snowplows.

The day the Grant’s department store in Bridgehampton shuttered. The day in 2001 when our Montauk correspondent took a winter beach walk. And other days and happenings from The Star’s voluminous pages.