Villages

When Rob Balnis had a stroke while driving to his office at East End Physical Therapy in late August and his car hit a tree, he was abruptly placed on a trajectory he had helped countless patients navigate over his 25-year career as a physical therapist — this time as a patient himself. 

This weaver’s account book was kept by Benjamin Parsons, who began recording business transactions in 1794. His father was one of 49 weavers in East Hampton who signed the 1778 Loyalty Oath to the British.

Karl Grossman, an author and educator who has tirelessly advocated for the environment and journalism, and against nukes, will be honored on Saturday at the Sag Harbor Cinema in a fund-raiser hosted by Fred Thiele. 

In 1975, the head of the county’s Migrant Affairs Council said his life had been threatened, his wife possibly shot at, and a bounty offered for “doing him in” following raids on East End migrant worker camps. And more, of not quite such drama, ripped from our past pages.

The Hampton Library in Bridgehampton is undergoing its first major renovation since a $6 million expansion in 2009, though updates this time around are focused on reconfiguring the structure, expanding certain rooms, and replacing outdated equipment.

This photo from The Star’s archive shows a first in local golf history from 1971, as the high school’s Lauralee Frood, at right, receives a varsity letter for her achievements on the golf team.

Once upon a time, birders might arm themselves with a simple pad and pencil before they tromped off into the woods. When birding, you could touch the sacred, experience wonder, get lost on a loop trail. Not knowing was stimulating. With Merlin, that stimulus is gone.

East Hampton Town’s Jamaican population has been focused on the news and social media since Melissa struck as a Category 5 storm last week, making landfall with winds up to 185 miles per hour.

The turmoil of President Trump’s second term has reached even East Hampton Town, where the author and journalist Michael Wolff is proving to be more of a gadfly than ever.

Relive some of the electoral excitement of yesteryear, won’t you?

USA Warrior Stories, a nonprofit based in East Hampton, will honor three generations of veterans here on Saturday from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Southampton Arts Center.

Some may avoid cemeteries for fear of lost souls, but those interested in the past, like Alice Dayton LaPointe, seen here in 1956, know they are a goldmine of local history.

A common cuckoo, a bird known in the United States for its famous “cuckoo clock” sound, was spotted on Oct. 23 in Riverhead. If the sighting is approved by the New York State Avian Records Committee, it will mark the first time the bird has ever appeared in the state.

Trick-or-treating on Friday? Here are a few spots to add to your circuit.

“The aim here is for us to have the differences, vocalize them, and for us to be patient and understand where they’re coming from,” said Dr. Asma Rashid, a co-host with Jim Vrettos of an interfaith disussion on creating unity in an age that feels increasingly divisive and isolating. 

Folksy music and family photos at LTV Studios Sunday added an upbeat touch to a commemoration of the life and legacy of Larry Penny, a naturalist, teacher, writer, and former director of the town’s Natural Resources Department.

A discussion hosted by Progressive East End Reformers laid bare the impacts of ICE agents searching for undocumented immigrants, a dragnet that across the country has snared multiple United States citizens and immigrants in the process of attaining legal status.

It has been a long road to recovery for Chris Carillo, but on Monday night he returned to East Hampton Town Hall to meet with the town trustees, for whom he serves as attorney, almost four months after a dangerous bout with Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA.

In 1950, an unusually quiet Halloween night saw some soaped windows, and little else. In 2000, the costumed dogs came out for Sag Harbor’s Ragamuffin Parade.

Research and memories are the underpinnings of Robert Hefner's bacykard orchard in Amagansett.

The Bridgehampton Lions Club’s Carving Contest, a tradition anticipated by adults and kids alike, is moving to a new location and a new day of the week this year: Sunday at the Corwith House.

A host of environmental organizations will come together on Sunday at LTV Studios to celebrate the life and work of Larry Penny, former director of the town’s Natural Resources Department and author of The Star’s “Nature Notes” column.

This turn-of-the-20th-century photo shows the James Huntting house in the village in its original majesty, ghosts or no.

The public has been invited to “Times That Try Our Souls — Let the Healing Begin,” which will bring together leaders from Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, on Sunday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork in Bridgehampton.

Rabbi Josh Franklin will be leaving the Jewish Center of the Hamptons when his contract concludes in May, after nine years in the position. 

It happened here, news junkies.

A crowd that was estimated at 2,000 to 2,500 and included several Democratic elected officials gathered at East Hampton Town Hall on Saturday for the latest "No Kings" protest against the Trump administration.

“It’s an incredible moment here, of course,” Leon Morris, a former rabbi at Temple Adas Israel in Sag Harbor, wrote this week from Israel. “Mixed with all the emotions of the enormous losses for us, and of course for the innocent Palestinians in Gaza.”

Ahead of their induction into the New York State Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame, Bill Evans and Gary Sapiane of WLNG were recognized with proclamations from the Sag Harbor Village Board on Tuesday.

You never know what you’ll find at a yard sale. Like the architectural plans for the redone Pussy’s Pond bridge in Springs.