Villages

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.

We got the May flowers, but it was not thanks to April showers this time. Long Island’s East End has officially dipped into drought status — which would normally happen in late summer — according to the most recent U.S. Drought Monitor map.

Take a trip into the past with the longstanding newspaper of record.

Business owners, industry leaders, and entrepreneurs from across the South Fork have been invited to the inaugural Hamptons Business Forum, from LTV Studios and the Greater East Hampton Chamber of Commerce, on Monday from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. at LTV Studios in Wainscott. Attendance is free.

The Vibrio vulnificus “flesh eating” bacterium “is not unusual in warm saltwater or brackish environments and does not necessarily indicate pollution or a widespread public health emergency,” the Southampton Town Trustees said in an advisory issued following a social media post that went viral.

The L.I.R.R.’s Fishermen’s Special to Montauk and Hampton Bays was once a convenient and popular rail service for urban anglers. The photo here is from 1946.

Sensational mentions of a flesh-eating bacterium aside, the State of the Bays symposium at the Stony Brook Southampton campus offered dire news regarding degraded waterways and climate change. 

“Everywhere I look there’s road work!” a motorist complained to anyone who would listen on a May day in 2001. What’s semi-old is new again in Star World.

Residents of Sag Harbor have come together to denounce what some see as a troubling wave of chain stores. A petition launched by Save Sag Harbor that calls for new legislation to define and limit “formula retail” or “chain establishments” in the village has been signed by over 500 people in the last week.

The Wainscott Tree Society will hold this year’s Arbor Day tree planting on April 24 at 1 p.m. at the Wainscott Post Office. A London plane tree donated by members of the society and provided at a discount by Whitmores Tree Farm will be planted.

After 15 years in Sag Harbor, GeekHampton, which sells and services Apple products, will close on Tuesday at 6 p.m. It will reopen on May 4 in Hampton Bays.

Christopher Gobler of Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences will deliver “State of the Bays 2026: No Time to Waste” on Friday, April 24, at 7 p.m. at the Avram Theater on the Stony Brook Southampton campus.

This Thomas Dering and John Hulbert letter had to do with issuing permits of return to those who’d fled Long Island during the British occupation, which is also the topic of the next Tom Twomey lecture Friday night at the East Hampton Library.

An Indian peafowl of unknown origin has been roaming a neighborhood in Clearwater Beach in Springs since at least December, but despite plenty of attention on neighborhood apps and Facebook, no one has claimed the bird.

The public access news show, a joint effort of television veterans and those new to the business, fills a programming void.

Memory Lane at The Star is long, and it is eventful.

The birder from Miller Place identified 319 species across Suffolk in 2025, a record for the county.

This weekend Concerned Citizens of Montauk hosts the Great Montauk Cleanup, and there are trail walks at Culloden Point and Montauk Point State Park.

The image seen here from the Harvey Ginsberg Postcard Collection shows a typical scene at the Girls Scouts’ 179-acre Camp Blue Bay on Gardiner’s Bay.

The LongHouse Reserve will reopen for the season on Saturday with an afternoon of family-friendly activities and tours running from 12:30 to 5. 

The day in 1976 when a town trustee was mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. And other choice nuggets from our past coverage.

An outlet of the national chain will open by May 14, right near Gubbins Perfect Fit and Set Point Tennis.

Tom Friedman, who’s 90, says he’s lived a long life, but since finding a kidney donor after being diagnosed with kidney disease four years ago, he may have even more life to live.

This photo shows construction on a housing development intended for workers helping Carl Fisher transform Montauk into “the Miami Beach of the North.”

First, the East Hampton Village Z.B.A. denied the Jewish Center of the Hamptons’ appeal of a building inspector’s determination that the center is not a “residential property.” Now attorneys have sued to annul that determination.

The Hamptons Whodunit crime and mystery festival in East Hampton Village runs April 16 to 19, with authors, true-crime experts, panel discussions, escape rooms, and graveyard tours.

Tales of the downtown restaurant scene in 1951, and how in 1976 this place was at once the Island’s second smallest and second-fastest growing.

More than 100 people participated in the March March, a walk from the Montauk Lighthouse to Hampton Bays on Saturday, raising more than $5,000 for Organizacion Latino Americana of Eastern Long Island.

Two former members of the Devon Yacht Cub and their spouses, ousted, they allege, over their outspoken opposition to the club’s redevelopment plans, have filed suit against Devon in New York County Supreme Court.