Villages

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.

“Spirit of ’76: East Hampton in the American Revolution,” the East Hampton Historical Society’s new podcast coinciding with the United States semiquincentennial, the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, is researched, written, and narrated by an East Hampton High School senior.

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From Phoenix House, just down Industrial Road, to countries including India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Kenya, and Barbados, Hamptons Church in Wainscott is quietly carrying out its mission near and far.

When the United States bombed Venezuela on Jan. 3 and removed Nicolas Maduro, its president, to stand trial in New York City, Americans might have taken pause. But not because there is any love for Mr. Maduro.

This letter from Capt. Jared Wade to his wife, Harriett Bushnell Wade, written about 172 years ago, shows some of the challenges of life as a whaler.

A rare Ross’s goose has been frequenting the farm field across from the Wolffer Estate Vineyard Wine Stand on Montauk Highway since it was first spotted last week.

In 1901, Osborne’s white horses escaped down Main Street. In 2001, a goodbye to the Abstract Expressionist painter Esteban Vicente.

The mood was somber during a candlelight vigil at the Hook Mill in East Hampton Village Thursday evening, one day after a woman was shot and killed by a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis amid the growing chaos of the Trump administration's deportation operations around the United States. 

Alayah Hewie, the owner of the Hamptons-based Jamaican patty company Rena’s Dream Patties, has organized a Container of Love Drop-Off Day to collect donations for Jamaica hurricane relief from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday at the Green Thumb Organic Farm Stand in Water Mill.

The East Hampton Healthcare Foundation will sponsor a free community health fair Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Hoie Hall meeting room at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton Village.

The magazine and program seen here was owned by Sherrill Clark Webb (1922-2015), center forward and left wing for the Southampton Seagulls, who would go on to become the woodshop teacher at East Hampton High School from 1948 until 1988.

The first 95 years of the life of Joan Tulp, known to many here as the unofficial mayor of Amagansett, are documented and celebrated in “Life Stories: Joan Tulp,” which will be screened at the Amagansett Library on Sunday at 2 p.m.

The South Fork chapter of ReWild Long Island will hold a winter sowing workshop on Jan. 17 at the East Hampton Historical Farm Museum, launching what the group intends to be a year full of community programs and more gardens.

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Henry Thomas Dering of Sag Harbor wishes his cousin Nicoll Havens Dering of New York a happy new year, emphasizing how the occasion is a time for reflection and reformation.

The Rev. Dr. Katrina Foster, once of St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in Amagansett, is the new bishop of the Metropolitan New York Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Tim and Courtney Garneau raise large, hand-crafted, ultra-luxury tents, keeping their kin busy as they establish a cult brand.

The East Hampton Village Board approved a $51,750 quote to inventory every tree on village-owned land in a joint effort with the L.V.I.S. and using a G.I.S.-based software.

As depressing as it was accurate, then-Supervisor Jay Schneiderman’s 2001 State of the Town address foretold an East Hampton as “an elite Manhattan suburb, a boring monoculture,” and worse.

This etching by Mary Nimmo Moran shows what was likely the view from her home across Town Pond, with the Gardiner Mill in the background, a favorite landscape for her.

Self Provisions, a storefront attached to Cavaniola’s Gourmet Cheese in Sag Harbor, is “always open,” as is proclaimed by an illuminated sign on the wall at the entrance. Two large, brightly lit vending machines dominate the space, with offerings ranging from sea salt crackers and slabs of French butter to jars of caviar and curated gift boxes — and, of course, cheese.

Soon after moving to Water Mill with her family in 2015, Marit Molin became aware of a largely unacknowledged population underpinning the complicated Hamptons economy. That led her to create Hamptons Community Outreach, which is dedicated to meeting basic critical needs to help break cycles of poverty.

Polar plunges at Main Beach in East Hampton and Beach Lane in Wainscott on New Year’s Day accomplish many things: bracing and exhilarating starts to the year, the company of many hundreds of friends and fellow townspeople, and a chance to secure bragging rights that extend well into 2026. But most important, each serves as a critical fund-raiser for food pantries.

The Montauk Point Lions Club honored Lisa Valcich with its Lion of the Year award.

Christmas parties, caroling, and the time “nine teenaged girls spent a day in a Springs residence partying on liquor, food, and pills.”