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Community members, elected officials, and clergy gathered at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on Feb. 19 for a conversation with Minerva Perez, executive director of Organizacion Latino-America (OLA) of Eastern Long Island, on how to approach changing federal immigration policy.

Henry Haney (1930-2019), a familiar face to many East Hampton residents and a valuable volunteer here, was captured in this photo by Morgan McGivern with his wife, Louise Hughes Haney, sometime in the 1990s.

Fifty years ago, problems bubbled up at the Bridgehampton School, then 80-percent Black, while East Hampton Village said no thank you to an incoming McDonald’s.

The Candy Kitchen opened in Bridgehampton on May 2, 1925. Thus, the year 2025 marks a whole century in business for the restaurant, bought by the Stavropoulos family in the 1940s and owned since 1981 by Gus Laggis. Today it is managed by his two daughters and son-in-law.

For Eagle Boat 17, thick Atlantic fog off East Hampton spelled disaster on May 19, 1922, as it was en route from the naval base at Norfolk, Va., to New London, Conn.

The nonprofit advocacy group led a workshop for tenants at the East Hampton Village manufactured home community on Oakview Highway this week so residents can advocate for themselves "to make sure it’s healthier, safer, that you’re able to be in a place that has good roads, regular electric, heat, septic, water,” Minerva Perez, OLA’s executive director, said.

Long before the name “Rowdy Hall” was adopted by a popular East Hampton Village bar and eatery (now in Amagansett), it was a boarding house: Mrs. Harry Hamlin’s Rowdy Hall. The building, now a single-family house, still stands at 111 Egypt Lane, although currently it’s floating, suspended six feet above a hole. When it’s lowered again, it will be on a new foundation.

One hundred and twenty-five years ago, East Hampton’s status as the next “Newport of Long Island” was top of mind in a competitive Southampton. At issue? Installing a single crosswalk.

Reports of electrical outages from Montauk to Wainscott, and all the way up through Shelter Island and the North Fork, rolled in on Thursday beginning shortly after 10 a.m.

A female Risso's dolphin over nine feet long was found beached and still alive at Albert's Landing Beach Friday morning, but rescuers' efforts could not save it.

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church has invited people from all faiths to a presentation on Wednesday by Minerva Perez, the executive director of Organizacion Latino-Americana.

The Wainscott Citizens Advisory Committee voted unanimously to write a letter to the East Hampton Town Board calling for the historic preservation of the entire 30-acre property at 66 Main Street, which the town purchased for $56 million last year with community preservation money.

A tree once grew in East Hampton. A big tree. A “perfectly healthy tree” that was likely “a couple of lifetimes” old, according to Dave Collins, the East Hampton Village superintendent of public works. Then, a homeowner decided it needed to go and in a spasm of governmental efficiency, it was promptly removed by the state. The tree seems to have fallen victim to a cross-jurisdictional communication gap.

In this photo, East Hampton firefighters are pictured at Guild Hall, assessing the damage before pumping water out of the John Drew Theater and its orchestra pit.

This weekend, as bad weather blows across the East End and you’re staring out the window, why not count the birds that you see at your feeder for the Great Backyard Bird Count?

Collapsing sections of roadway, an exploding propane tank: Back in 2000 it was the bridge reconstruction follies in Sag Harbor. And more ripped from our past coverage.

The Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce’s annual HarborFrost returns Friday and Saturday, bringing fireworks and winter activities like ice carving and fire dancing to Main Street and beyond.

The Joseph F. Gunster House, also known as the T.W. Morris House, on Hither Lane near Amy’s Lane, appears here covered in snow, off a snowy road. While the photograph is uncredited and undated, Gunster (1894-1979) and his wife, Ruth Harris Work Gunster, who was known as Harriette, owned the house for almost 21 years, between August 1943 and 1964.

A hundred years ago in The Star: Bad hootch so snarled up the feet and warped the brains of some of the people attending dances at the Chateau de Legion of Eugene Hand Post, American Legion, at Hampton Bays, that henceforth admission to the dances will be by card only.

This photo from the Hampton Library showcases the Bridgehampton house of Edwin Rose, Civil War veteran, Southampton Town supervisor, state legislator.

Environmental problems on the East End, from lobster die-offs in the Sound to pesticides to overdevelopment, come to a head in the year 2000. And much more from our past coverage.

One of the first executive orders of the new Trump administration rescinded Biden administration policies that forbid Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from conducting raids in “sensitive areas” such as schools and places of worship. With this dramatic policy change, local school officials and religious leaders are banding together in a call to protect the immigrant community.

A painting by the late Ralph Carpentier, a well-known landscape painter here who died in 2016, is back in the hamlet where he created it and on display at the Springs Library.

“What’s happening in California is something that can happen every day here in New York,” said Chuck Hamilton, the founder of the New York Wildfire Incident Management Academy. The East End has what he called an “urban interface” — also present in Southern California — which means that houses touch right up against forested areas ripe with fuel.

Calvary Baptist Church and St. Luke’s Episcopal Church welcomed faith leaders and parishioners from Bridghampton to Montauk on Sunday for this year’s interfaith celebration of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — his life, his teachings, his message.

Keen-eyed observers may have noticed an intriguing “available retail space” sign placed over the holidays at the Long Island Rail Road Station in East Hampton Village. The space, 613 square feet total, is divided between 488 square feet that will be shared with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, including a bathroom, and 125 feet of exclusive retail space.

In 1822 Henry Packer Dering, the Sag Harbor customs collector, issued this “acknowledgement” that Benjamin Lord, “an American seaman,” had paid “into this office six months Hospital Money.”

The Hedges Inn, now owned by John Cumming, is in contract to be sold to Andrew and Sarah Wetenhall, marking an end to a year of drama that saw the 1873 inn, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, actively courted by Scott Sartiano and his celebrity hangout, Zero Bond.

A chance to relive the time at the turn of the last century when the then-new internet wiped out a once reliable and interesting field of employment — the nation’s travel agencies. Plus a hundred years’ worth of other Star nuggets.

Joe Bloecker, a member of the Montauk Friends of Erin for over 30 years and its president for 10, has been chosen to lead the group’s 2025 St. Patrick’s Day Parade as grand marshal. Mr. Bloecker’s “involvement with the club and his contributions to the Montauk community run deep,” the group said in its announcement.