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East Hampton Readies for Fourth Pride Parade

As East Hampton prepares for its fourth annual Pride Parade, set to kick off in front of the Presbyterian Church on Saturday at noon and culminate in an afternoon of “celebration, family fun, and live musical performances” in Herrick Park, organizers are anticipating their largest and “most vibrant” showing to date. 

Jun 5, 2025
Item of the Week: The Old Amagansett Train Station

This photo from The Star’s archive shows the gambrel-roofed Amagansett station built in 1911, in use until the early 1960s, and famously the departure point of the 1942 Nazi saboteurs.

Jun 5, 2025
It’s Electric! Noiseless Plane Takes Flight in East Hampton

Excitement was in the air at East Hampton Town Airport on Tuesday as five passengers entered the Beta Technologies Alia all-electric aircraft for the first-ever electric plane passenger flight in the United States. “I think quiet and sustainable aviation is the future,” said Rob Wiesenthal, the C.E.O. of Blade Air Mobility and one of the plane’s passengers.

Jun 5, 2025
No Impact Man Now Coaches Execs

Colin Beavan, formerly “No Impact Man,” now an executive coach, is offering a way to direct the great abundance here — of money, of celebrity, of influence — for a better world. He will lead three gatherings aimed at “those ready to step out of the noise and into meaningful, catalytic connection.”

Jun 5, 2025
The Way It Was for June 5, 2025

Contamination was top of mind in the year 2000, from kids’ crayons to Sag Harbor’s Rowe Industries, a Superfund site at the time.

Jun 5, 2025
A Memorial for a Mechanic

A memorial service for Thomas Ferreira, a Montauk mechanic and noted litigant against the town, will be held on Saturday from noon to 1 p.m. at Edward Vincent Ecker Sr. County Park in Montauk. Mr. Ferreira died in September.

May 29, 2025
Celebrating Wood Brothers’ Hall Induction

The basketball careers of Howard and Kenny Wood, who are to be inducted into the Suffolk County Sports Hall of Fame tonight, will be celebrated Friday as well at a party at the Clubhouse in Wainscott from 5 to 7 p.m.

May 29, 2025
Item of the Week: The Summer of 1944, a Guide

A copy of the 1944 “East Hampton Social Guide” from the L.V.I.S. offers a fascinating snapshot of the local businesses and transit options of the time.

May 29, 2025
Recalling Great Sacrifice and ‘Simple Things’

The sacrifice of “those who paid so terrible a price to ensure that freedom would be our legacy” was underlined again and again during Memorial Day observances in East Hampton. “If you want to honor their memory, then do the things they can’t,” said retired Marine Major Conlon Carabine. “Care for your family, care for yourself, care for your community, and try not to take the simple things in life for granted.”

May 29, 2025
The Hedges Inn: Luxury in a ‘Tiny Little Footprint’

“We call ourselves East Hampton’s front porch because we’re the first thing you see when you pull into the village,” Sarah Wetenhall, who now owns the inn with her husband, Andrew, said. “One of our big missions here is to make the Hedges and Swifty’s open and available for the community.”

May 29, 2025
The Way It Was for May 29, 2025

Thunder strikes in 1925, thieves strike in 1975, and the P.O. drops the ball in the year 2000.

May 29, 2025
Tom Brady Kicks Off Season With East Hampton Store Opening

Adoring fans flocked to the village Thursday, where Tom Brady cut the ribbon at CardVault by Tom Brady on Newtown Lane and then tossed footballs from a stage in Herrick Park.

May 23, 2025
A Winning Wellness Walk in Montauk

On Saturday, Dr. Edwin Keeshan led Montauk’s inaugural Walk With a Doc, part of a national initiative to help people become more physically active while spending time in nature, building friendships, and learning a thing or two about wellness.

May 22, 2025
East Hampton’s Downtown Businesses Are Ready

New businesses in the village range from a Rolex at the old Odd Fellows Hall and Tom Brady's sports collectible shop, CardVault, to restaurants, takeout spots, and the newly revamped Hedges Inn.

May 22, 2025
Honoring the Fallen for Memorial Day

Memorial Day observances in East Hampton begin on Sunday when members of American Legion Post 419 and the Everit Albert Herter Veterans of Foreign Wars Post will travel by bus to cemeteries from Wainscott to Montauk to pay tribute to buried veterans, with rifle squad ceremonies at each one.

May 22, 2025
Item of the Week: Dorothy Hamlin on July Fourth, 1915

This prizewinning barnyard-themed float was part of East Hampton’s Fourth of July parade in 1915, adorned with hay, vegetation, live geese, a calf, and a scarecrow. Riding atop it were Judy Hamlin (1909-1991), dressed as a farmer, and her older sister, Dorothy Hamlin (1890-1919), costumed as a milkmaid.

May 22, 2025
LTV Gets $99,000 Grant for Roof Repairs

The New York State Council on the Arts has awarded LTV, East Hampton Town's public access television provider, $99,000 to support a capital project that focuses on roof repair for its Wainscott studios.

May 22, 2025
Many Fans Celebrated ‘Big John’ Ryan’s 90th

To say that the entire town turned out for John Ryan Sr.’s surprise 90th birthday party at the St. Luke’s parish hall Saturday may be a bit of an exaggeration. Say half the town then. You could be forgiven for gate-crashing a party to honor Big John Ryan, the guru of lifeguarding here.

May 22, 2025
New East Hampton Emergency Department Is Open

On the eve of Memorial Day weekend, the Stony Brook East Hampton Emergency Department has opened at 400 Pantigo Place. It will operate 24 hours a day, seven day a week, 365 days a year, including holidays.

May 22, 2025
Norah Jones to Play at Montauk Lighthouse

Tickets go on sale Thursday for what is sure to be a highlight of this summer’s live music offerings on the South Fork. The 10-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and pianist Norah Jones will perform at the Montauk Lighthouse on Aug. 2, with proceeds benefiting the Montauk Historical Society.

May 22, 2025
The Way It Was 05.22.25

A 1925 drowning, a raid of Montauk businesses in 2000, and much more from days gone bay in the town's newspaper of record.

May 22, 2025
White Sharks’ Return a Good Sign

A certain New York City tabloid did its best to sensationalize drone footage captured this month depicting a great white shark a few hundred feet off the Montauk shoreline, but the sighting is neither surprising nor cause for concern, a local expert insisted.

May 22, 2025
‘Our Hamptons’ Podcast Marks Three Years

“It’s about history. It’s about preservation. It’s about sense of place, here, on eastern Long Island,” Irwin Levy says of the podcast he and Esperanza Leon have been producing since 2022.

May 22, 2025
Time for the Airing of the Quilts at Duck Creek

The third annual Airing of the Quilts will take place on Saturday from noon to 5 at the Arts Center at Duck Creek (Sunday if it rains). Organized by Louise Eastman and Erica-Lynn Huberty, this year’s display is a tribute to the log cabin quilt, long a symbol of refuge and belonging. 

May 16, 2025
A Doctor’s Walk in Montauk

Edwin Keeshan, medical director of the Meeting House Lane Medical Practice in Montauk, will host the hamlet’s first Walk With a Doc, part of a national effort, on Saturday at 11 a.m. The meeting place is the gazebo on the downtown green.

May 15, 2025
Gagosian Buys BookHampton in East Hampton

The art dealer Larry Gagosian is the new owner of the stalwart East Hampton Village bookstore, BookHampton, which has been for sale since the fall. "It would have been a horrible thing to lose that bookstore," he said Thursday. "When I heard it was for sale, I jumped at the opportunity."

May 15, 2025
Item of the Week: Taking Art to New Heights

How that Napeague icon, the D’Amico Institute of Art and its flagship vessel, the Art Barge, came to be.

May 15, 2025
New Pine Beetle Effort Launched

LTV has launched the Pine Protection Project, an effort to address the southern pine beetle’s devastating impact on East Hampton Town’s pitch-pine forests. The project is a multifaceted approach with a goal of fostering discussion leading to action and solutions, and will include a June 11 panel discussion at LTV Studios in Wainscott. 

May 15, 2025
The Way it Was for May 15, 2025

A sarcastic screed against the scourge of swearing from the turn of the 20th century? For that and much more from our storied pages, read on.

May 15, 2025
They’ll Be ‘Together From Heron Out’

Dr. Pember Edwards and Matt Chapman were married on April 26 at the Presbyterian Church in East Hampton, the very church where they had met in a youth group in the 1990s. The ceremony, officiated by the Rev. Jon Rodriguez, was filled with thoughtful details of deep significance to the couple.

May 15, 2025