Villages

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.

“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.

Our weekly blast from the past.

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.