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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.”

“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.”

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

“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.

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. 

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.

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."

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

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. 

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.

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.

“Getting to the wall is one of the steps in the healing process for combat vets from Vietnam. A lot of guys have survivor’s guilt. Maybe they missed a patrol and lost a bunch of buddies. Then there are family members who bring their kids and grandkids,” said Doc Russo, who travels around the country with a 300-foot replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall in Washington, D.C.

This Mother’s Day card, made by Sarah E. Horton of East Hampton’s Fowler family for her mother, Maria Horton, on May 13, 1917, exemplifies how the day was initially celebrated.

The East Hampton Village branch of M&T Bank at 99 Newtown Lane will close permanently next Thursday at 4 p.m. The bank’s branches at 351 Pantigo Road in East Hampton and 746 Montauk Highway in Montauk will remain open.

The Anchor Society of East Hampton, a nonprofit community group with a mission to revitalize the community and increase year-round foot traffic in the village commercial district, has issued a call for applications for the second year of its Winter Shops program.

Two ospreys return to scene of Accabonac Harbor destruction despite bird-deterrent devices, while town trustees call out feds and D.E.C. over lack of action.

Wading into the Sag Harbor sewage problem circa 1925. The problem was still there 50 years later. Plus much more dredged from the newspaper of record’s deep past.

The flag of Belgium will fly over East Hampton Village Hall next Thursday to mark Victory in Europe Day, the day celebrating the surrender of Germany’s armed forces in World War II.

The Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station Museum opens for the 2025 season on Saturday at 11 a.m. with tours and a performance of sea chanteys, followed by a wealth of events continuing into the fall.