Villages

For years, the names etched into weatherworn headstones faded quietly beneath layers of dirt, lichen, and time —until Jason Bono began restoring them one at a time.

Saturday is shaping up to be a perfect day for the fifth annual Hamptons Pride Parade in East Hampton Village. Those who want to walk in the parade have until Thursday to register. 

Newtown Lane will be closed at 5 p.m. Friday, when East Hampton Village holds a block party and New York Knicks watch party. 

It costs almost nothing, targets only mosquitoes, won’t poison the air, kids, or animals, and it won’t run off into the bays and ponds. It’s a mosquito bucket.

This program accompanied an exhibition guest-curated by Alastair Gordon exploring themes that later appeared in his book “Weekend Utopia: Modern Living in the Hamptons.” He’ll speak about a new edition of it at the East Hampton Library at 5 p.m. on June 11.

The annual fireworks show at Main Beach in East Hampton Village, once a Fourth of July tradition but more recently held in mid to late August, will once again take place on July 4. In Montauk, fireworks will move from the ocean beach to the Block Island Sound side of the hamlet.

The East Hampton Village Foundation has announced the first four concerts of its summer 2026 Tuesdays at Main Beach series.

A managing partner in the group that owns the Offshore Montauk hotel and the Este restaurant that is under construction may have assuaged some concerns when he addressed the Montauk Citizens Advisory Committee this week, but skepticism clearly lingered among a segment of the large crowd.

It happened here, news junkies.

Unsure if it was not in fact a prank, a WLNG D.J. relayed the call that had just come to the Sag Harbor radio station last Thursday: Two baby goats and a pony were missing from their Wainscott home.

Elizabeth Parsons Edwards (1874-1943), seen in this undated photo, worked her family farm on Fireplace Road, canning vegetables and making everything from butter to clothing to music.

More ripped from our voluminous pages.

Memorial Day weekend was a washout at East Hampton Village’s vaunted beaches, but inclement weather did not dampen the enthusiasm felt by Sean Daly for his new role as the village’s chief lifeguard, succeeding Drew Smith.

The L.V.I.S., which maintains the trees, greens, ponds, and parks that characterize East Hampton Village, has announced a plan to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States by planting 250 trees over the next decade.

Nancy Remkus, a guest minister at the Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor, was among 19 Suffolk County residents celebrated as a champion of diversity on Sunday, when County Legislator Ann Welker presented her with an award after the nondenominational service.

Public opinion, policy-makers, and $5-a-gallon gasoline are all lining up against gas-powered leaf blowers. That was the backdrop to an electric-blower demonstration, sponsored by ChangeHampton, held on the Town Hall campus May 16.

This image from the Amagansett Historical Association’s collection was published in Harper’s Weekly on Jan. 31, 1885, with an article about the capture of a whale off Southampton.

New York City residents who plan to spend Memorial Day weekend on the South Fork and commuters who rely on the train to cut through the eastbound morning traffic were breathing easier as of Monday night, when a strike called by a coalition of five Long Island Rail Road unions was settled.

The East Hampton Town Marine Museum on Bluff Road in Amagansett will be closed to the public through the summer as the town and the East Hampton Historical Society plan a comprehensive, multiyear renovation after a burst pipe damaged the building over the winter.

Only 4 percent of Boy Scouts become Eagle Scouts, and Calogero Sferrazza, a junior at Pierson High School, is about to become one of them. As a scout, he has earned almost 21 merit badges, and plans to earn his final credentials with a project honoring veterans in his hometown of Sag Harbor. 

From matters frippery to consequential, it happened here.

ReWild Long Island will resume hosting compost tables at the Springs Farmers Market this weekend, with more coming to Amber Waves Farm and the Montauk Community Garden.

East Hampton Village residents will pay a slightly lower tax rate in fiscal year 2027 than in 2026, according to a summary of the tentative budget issued by Marcos Baladron, the village administrator, to Mayor Jerry Larsen and the village board this week. 

This photo from the collection of the Garden Club of East Hampton documents the gardens Anna Gilman Hill designed for her Apaquogue Road estate.

With a strike looming at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday barring a contract agreement, negotiations between the M.T.A. and a coalition of the L.I.R.R. unionized work force were to resume yesterday.  

Notable in 1976? The town Z.B.A.’s forward-thinking consideration of a windmill overlooking Fort Pond Bay in Montauk. And, as always, other tidbits judiciously culled from our past pages.

Technology may be helping travelers cut time from their commutes and shave minutes from their vacation trips, but some Sag Harbor Village residents say that same technology is ruining the quality of life in their otherwise quiet neighborhood.

The Dick’s Sporting Goods “rotational pop-up store,” Walter Hagen, will open Thursday at 34 Park Place in East Hampton.

The East Hampton Business Service, which its longtime owner described this week as the “help desk” and “back office” for residents and visitors for nearly 50 years, has changed hands. 

This volume from the Montauk Historical Society collection contains entries from the Montauk Lighthouse’s guests during a period when many visitors stayed at the keeper’s home.