Villages

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.

A day of fun on the ice on Saturday at the Buckskill Winter Club will raise money for Katy’s Courage, the nonprofit that supports pediatric cancer research, education, and children’s bereavement services.

Canada geese far outnumber other waterfowl on the East End, according to the 2026 New York State Ornithological Association count, but there are pleasant surprises in the mix as well.

The manor house at Sylvester Manor, seen on this postcard, was built around 1737. From the beginning, the plantation’s existence depended on the labor of people of color.

John and Kelly Piccinnini, who own the Clam Bar on Napeague and Sett Coffee in Amagansett, “will be taking over operations” of the Corner Bar in Sag Harbor.

The Long Island Conservancy is racing to raise money to buy a 0.64-acre environmentally significant lot on Westwood Road in Wainscott.

Business members of the Greater East Hampton Chamber of Commerce will show customers the love this holiday weekend, with specials, promotions, and events from Friday through Monday.

Most women don’t realize cardiovascular disease is their greatest health threat. That’s why the American Heart Association named the first Friday of February National Wear Red Day, and offered lessons on hands-only CPR at places like Scoville Hall in Amagansett last week.

This document appointing Robert Smith Gardiner as captain of the 13th Infantry Regiment during the War of 1812 is signed by two presidents. Here’s what we know about Gardiner.

From the late 1980s until the early 2000s, it would not have been unusual to see Sigrid Owen near Fort Pond or Hook Pond — large net or perhaps a bag of cracked corn in hand — on a mission. Ms. Owen, who would have been 98 on Feb. 7, died on May 23 of last year.

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The ground will be covered in white for this year’s Great Backyard Bird Count, which starts Friday and lasts through Sunday, and that means feeders could be especially active and potentially yield some surprises.

The East Hampton Trails Preservation Society will host two outings in Montauk this weekend. One at Amsterdam Beach, the other at Point Woods Trail.

Hamptons Community Outreach, which works to lift people out of poverty and reduce human suffering by meeting basic and critical needs, will hold its third annual fund-raiser on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. at 230 Elm in Southampton Village.

At the Hook Mill, a defiant mood mixed with resolve to join together in resistance to the Trump administration’s increasingly authoritarian actions.

Forecasts are calling for windy and chilly conditions this weekend, but with the notable exception of the fireworks display Saturday, the Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce’s Harborfrost festivities are mostly set to proceed as planned.

The 1832 to 1849 portion of this account book records Patrick Talmage Gould’s daily life as a Montauk Lighthouse minder.

When dealing with the unpredictability of the ocean, a systematic, disciplined approach to identifying and mitigating risk is a good place to start, Jonathan Joseph, a retired Marine Corps officer, said at a safety session hosted by Surfrider Eastern Long Island.

From the dull to the amusing to the consequential, passages ripped from our past pages.

With her company, Master Grief, Toni Filipone seeks to change the perception of grief and train counselors to help others. “The five stages of grief are for people who are dying — not for the living,” she said.

Twenty or so monks from a monastery in Texas are making their way to Washington, D.C., on a mission of compassion, while locally a class on the Buddhist path to world peace will be held in Water Mill.

This photostat of a deposition taken on Oct. 18, 1667, from East Hampton’s first minister, Thomas James, is one of the earliest records we have of “Ackobuak,” or “Accabonac,” as a place name.

Scenes from yet another winter storm, from a cold plunge in Gardiner's Bay to a hardware store keeping people in shovels and salt to the highway departments working around the clock to clear the roads.

From a 1926 article on how men have failed here to a 2001 clothing and costume bonanza at the dump.

Coordinated vigils for what organizers call victims of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement will happen across the East End on Friday at 6 p.m. and in Riverhead on Saturday at 10 a.m., with local events scheduled in East Hampton Village and Sag Harbor.

Rachael Corsi, the new executive director of the Montauk Chamber of Commerce, is taking in the hamlet’s serenity and natural beauty this winter while preparing for the coming tourist season.

The median home price across the Hamptons real estate market now tops $2 million, for the first time in history. And in East Hampton Village, the median jumps to $5.625 million, the highest for all markets on the South Fork.

On a snowy Sunday evening, Calvary Baptist Church in East Hampton paid tribute to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy with prayer, poems, sermons, and songs. The multifaith celebration brought religious leaders, residents, and students together to reflect.

The death of a surfer after emerging from the waves near Montauk Point in 2024 got many in the surfing community here thinking about how to better prepare for emergencies in the water and onshore. Thus a series of surf safety sessions hosted by Surfrider Eastern Long Island, the next of which happens this week.

This photo from The Star’s archive shows community leaders commemorating the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in East Hampton on Jan. 25, 1986.