Villages

Saturday is STOP Day, or Stop Throwing Out Pollutants Day, in East Hampton Town. From 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., residents can take hazardous materials found in the average residence to the Montauk transfer station at 365 Montauk Highway.

East Hampton Village is installing banners on village lampposts along Route 27 this week, celebrating local residents who were war veterans.

Matt Charron has spent many of his Saturdays over the past two-plus years helping Habitat for Humanity of Long Island build new houses for families just like his for whom home ownership was always just out of reach. On Monday, the tables were turned, as others pitched in to raise the walls on a Habitat house in East Hampton that is being built for Mr. Charron and his 15-year-old son, Jackson.

Across Montauk, young people are rallying around Poppy Heart, a haven, they say, for all  things fun and creative. For some, it's even more than that — it's a safe space with a positive role model and mentor in the shop's owner, Tiffany LaBanca.

For anyone trying to put together a last-minute Halloween costume, the Maidstone Club’s 75th anniversary costume party in 1966, featuring 1890s attire, offers some procrastination-friendly inspiration.

From the day in 1947 when Ed Ecker knew extra-point kicks, to some 1972 words of wisdom for trick-or-treaters from the village police chief, it happened here.

Bird populations have declined steeply over the last 50 years, but the North American Bird Conservation Initiative's "State of the Birds 2022" report, published in early October, balanced the gloom with some success stories and offered strategies for future action which would "bring birds back."

The East Hampton Town Trustees' 32nd annual Largest Clam Contest officially ended on Friday, almost two weeks after the event that drew hundreds to the Lamb Building in Amagansett. At their meeting on Monday, the trustees announced both a new venue and a date for next year's contest. 

While it’s definitely fun for the little ones, the Bridgehampton Lions Club’s annual Carving Contest is really a family affair, because jack-o’-lanterns as good as these shouldn’t be just for kids.

The day in 1922 when Alfred E. Smith came in for some praise, a 1972 effort to organize South Fork farm workers, and more ripped from the pages of The Star.

“Witchcraft in East Hampton: A Short Play” by Virginia H. Page (1926-2021), a page of which is seen here, focuses on East Hampton’s 1657 witchcraft trial, known as the Goody Garlick trial.

A nightmare on Sherrill Road: Billy Field, one of the most creative, enthusiastic, scarily talented Halloween decorators, will not be decking out his East Hampton home this Oct. 31 — or ever after. He's selling and moving to North Carolina, but will act as Demon of Décor for Guild Hall's Community Social and Spooky Silent Dance Party on Saturday at LTV studios in Wainscott