Villages

The long-awaited ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Montauk Playhouse aquatic and cultural centers is planned for Friday, Aug. 15, at 2 p.m.

The Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter has announced a fund-raising campaign with a goal of $15,000 to build a new playground on its property in the village.

“No horses allowed to stand here, per order Gen. Youngs.” Such was Montauk in the year 1900. Plus much more ripped from our storied pages.

It’s property tax time in East Hampton Village, which is again offering three ways for residents to submit payments.

The New York State Broadcasters Association has announced its 2025 Hall of Fame inductees, with its president, David Donovan, praising the class as setting the “gold standard” for New York broadcasting. Among the six honorees are Sag Harbor’s own radio legends Bill Evans and Gary Sapiane, both of WLNG 92.1 FM.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation issued an air quality health advisory on July 26 because of particulate matter, descending on the East End from wildfires that are again raging in Canada. If the East End were a city, it would have been ranked seventh worst in the world, between Doha, Qatar, and Lahore, Pakistan, according to iqair.com.

The Amagansett Village Improvement Society will tip its collective hat to Joan Tulp on Saturday. “I don’t think I’ve met anyone more committed to their hometown than Joan,” said Victor Gelb, who serves as co-president of the group with her.

In a surprise announcement on Monday, LTV, which operates East Hampton Town’s public access channel, announced that Michael Clark, its executive director since October 2019, has resigned. Jonathan Olken, chairman of LTV’s board of directors, has also resigned, and Ellen Watson, LTV’s longtime operations manager, is soon to retire.

Dennis and Barbara D’Andrea have been active as preservationists and community advocates for as long as the collective institutional memory of Wainscott serves.

This photograph from the C. Frank Dayton Photo Collection at the East Hampton Library shows the A.O. Jones Hardware Store at 51 Newtown Lane. Owned by Asa O. Jones (1857-1953), it later became East End Hardware and today is A.L.C., a clothing store.

Through a window in the second-floor den of a house on Cranberry Hole Road, the undeveloped dunescape of Napeague State Parks comes into view. The house — on the market with Sotheby’s at $3.8 million — was sited deliberately to take in as much of the landscape as possible.

The day a hundred years ago when the baseballers of Mattituck were sent home by the boys of Bonac to consider sticking to raising cauliflower. And much more colorfully relayed by your newspaper of record.

In 1975 a Bock and a Topping were netting for porgies and hauled in a dusky shark. And other tidbits from our pages.

The pace at which Lenny Ackerman moves belies his 86 years. The prominent East End attorney writes a weekly column for The Mountain Messenger, has taken up painting, and has just published his fourth book.

According to the most recent United States Drought Monitor Map, published on July 24, there is no drought on the East End. Nevertheless, the Suffolk County Water Authority issued a Stage 1 water alert due to "dangerously low levels in water storage tanks." 

The seventh annual Hamptons Dog Show is on Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the American Legion Hall in Amagansett, with the East Hampton Lions Club hosting this fund-raiser for the Guide Dog Foundation of Long Island.

The Ellen Hermanson Foundation will host its 30th Summer Gala on Saturday from 6:30 to 11:30 p.m. at the Bridgehampton Tennis and Surf Club.

EyeGallery, described as “a living cabinet of curiosities,” has opened in the 4,000-square-foot space that had long been home to White’s Drug and Department Store.

Six account books dating to as early as 1794 were discovered in a barn here. They not only document transactions for merchandise such as calico, schoolbooks, and maize, they offer a glimpse into life in early East Hampton.

“What we’re trying to do here is convert,” said Biddle Duke, the moderator at a ChangeHampton panel discussion called “How to Move the Eco-Needle on Our Lands.”

People who attend the Montauk Playhouse’s Senior Nutrition Program are in an uproar over the recent resignation of its executive director, Anna Ostroff, and angrily let the program’s board of directors know it during a combative meeting on Tuesday.

The 300th anniversary of Miss Amelia’s Cottage, on Main Street in Amagansett, will be celebrated on its grounds on Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m. Food, drinks, and music will be offered, and the 1850 Lester Barn will be open.

Jess Garay, an avid thrifter, is “always hunting for a treasure” when shopping for vintage clothing. But earlier this month in Amagansett, she found one she is sure she will never be able to top: a jersey that had belonged to her late cousin, who died at 24.

In the summer of 2011, Alex Esposito and James Mirras addressed a specific need with Hamptons Free Ride, an electric shuttle service that ran in a fixed loop through East Hampton and from parking lots in town to Main Beach. Since then, a “hometown side project” has developed into Circuit, an all-electric, on-demand “micro-transit” solution in more than 40 cities and towns.

This still from an LTV archive video shows 1989’s competitors locked in a tight race for the clam shucking title.

Soldier Ride — The Hamptons, a community event to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project, returns to the South Fork on Saturday, taking participants from the Amagansett Firehouse to Sag Harbor and back.

The case of Augusta Ramsay Folks, an 81-year-old accused of cutting down two trees on Meadowlark Lane in Sag Harbor in June of last year — in violation of the village’s new tree-protection law — was back in court on July 8, when a settlement proposed by Ms. Folks was rejected by the village and then withdrawn by her attorney.

When a Clinton visit here was a novel thing. And much more from The Star of yore.

ChangeHampton, which promotes restorative, biodiverse, healthy, and sustainable landscaping practices as well as expansion of pollinator pathways on eastern Long Island, is offering a forum to further a conversation about “moving the needle,” as the climate crisis intensifies, on Sunday at 11 a.m. at the Nature Conservancy, at 142 Route 114 in East Hampton.

The public relations firm WordHampton has long had its finger on the pulse of what’s going on in the East End business community. That comes with the job. And now, with a new office overlooking Park Place in East Hampton Village, it is part of that pulse in a way that was not quite as tangible from its former headquarters in Springs.