Villages

As long ago as 1936, when T. Gilbert Pearson published “Birds of America,” purple martins were almost exclusively dependent on man-made housing. Here on the East End, they arrive in early April to the houses waiting for them and by Labor Day they're gone.

Concerned Citizens of Montauk and officials of East Hampton Town’s Natural Resources Department held an “open house” at South Lake Drive in that hamlet on Friday, where they detailed efforts to restore Lake Montauk’s water quality.

In the last week, dozens of pelagic seabirds that that seldom come to land have washed up on East End beaches either dead or in very poor condition.

The East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society Fair will be held on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at its shops and headquarters at 95 Main Street.

From the continuing bicycle craze of 1897 to the secret 1997 settlement of Jerry Della Femina’s civil rights lawsuits against East Hampton Village, it happened here.

Saturday is Dragonfly Day in New York State, and Southampton Town, Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt, and the New York League of Conservation Voters are marking the occasion by sponsoring Dragonfly Day and Green Expo, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the South Fork Natural History Museum and Nature Center in Bridgehampton.

This whaling log kept by Alfred Washington Foster (1822-1886) chronicles two voyages on the barks Columbia and Roanoke between 1845 and 1861.

East Hampton's first annual Pride parade took place on Saturday and it was a joyous, color-popping celebration of freedom and equality that attracted members of the L.G.B.T.Q.+ community, their allies, clergy, local politicians, storekeepers, well-wishers, the young, the old, and the curious.

By all accounts, the highly savored scallop is very much imperiled. But can the popular bivalve, which lives for upward of 22 months, be saved?

A microscopic wormlike creature is rapidly killing American and European beech trees on the East End, and there is not much to be done about it. Beech leaf disease appears to have started in the United States in Ohio sometime before 2012. By 2019, it was on Long Island.

East Hampton Village on Saturday became the first East End municipality to "close its Main Street for a Pride parade," said Tom House, the founder of Hamptons Pride, a nonprofit organization that raises awareness of L.G.B.T.Q.+ issues and aims to build a memorial to gay history in Wainscott.

This photograph taken by Robert Hefner around 1980 shows the residence of Elizabeth Edwards Lockwood (1872-1960) and William A. Lockwood (1874-1966). Built circa 1680, the house is one of the oldest in East Hampton.

In 1897, early rumblings of a move toward village incorporation here, and 1972 memories of counting drinks at the Elaine Benson Gallery in Bridgehampton.

As the first funerals began in Uvalde, Tex., Tuesday, clergy 2,000 miles away in East Hampton held an interfaith vigil at Hook Mill, offering some words of comfort on the unfathomable loss after a gunman last week killed 19 children and two teachers at the Robb Elementary School.

Leo Daunt hasn’t just co-opted any old vintage mom-and-pop atmosphere of 1970s Montauk in the repurposing of his seaside motel. He's actually taken his mom and pop’s vibe and given it a cool rethink with glossy interiors and contemporary twists like Himalayan salt lamps in the rooms, outdoor fire pits, and a yoga pavilion — the better to cater to the values of the millennial traveler.

Despite a high rate of vaccination, Covid-19 has proven an unrelenting and evolving threat to public health across New York and the country, and highly contagious subvariants of the Omicron variant mean a growing number of people have endured, or will experience, multiple infections, according to an associate professor of public health at Stony Brook University.

The road resurfacing project in downtown Sag Harbor Village, originally slated to be finished by Memorial Day, is now estimated to be complete by June 17, according a spokeswoman for National Grid.

A staged reading at the Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station on June 11 will mark the 80th anniversary of the landing of Nazi saboteurs on the nearby beach during World War II.

Scarlet tanagers breed in forest interiors. Take a walk on the Sprig Tree Trail in Sag Harbor, or along the Round Pond Trail where they sing and breed. You'll also find them at the Grace Estate, Hither Woods, and Barcelona Neck. The trick is to find a large expansive stretch of woods and listen.

At least 45 groups are already signed on to march in East Hampton Village's first Pride parade, which will step off from near Guild Hall on Saturday at noon and head down Main Street to Newtown Lane and Herrick Park for a post-parade rally. Organizers are still hoping to add a band to the line-up, and last-minute marchers will be welcomed at a designated location that morning.

If the forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center are right, the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season will be the seventh consecutive year of above-average hurricane activity, with 14 to 21 named storms, three to six of which could become major hurricanes.

As has been the tradition in East Hampton Village for more than four decades, hundreds of people marched down Main Street on Monday for the Memorial Day parade, which honored military men and women who have been lost in the line of duty since the Civil War.

The East End real estate boom brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic is experiencing a shift thanks to historically low inventory, but the market is still feeding historically high prices, competitive conditions, a near-total lack of available rental properties, and faster turnaround of deals as a result.

This photograph from the Springs Historical Society shows Donald Asa Miller (1917-2007) in a bomber-style aviator jacket. The plane behind him carries an Army Air Corps logo, although Miller served as a radioman in the Navy.

When beaches are closed because of nesting plovers, people get pretty riled up. The birds, which are endangered in the country and New York State, may seem to be prolific here, but in fact nest on only a handful of beaches on the East End. They're also site-specific, returning year after year to breed in the same spots.

Dr. Meera Shah, the chief medical officer for Planned Parenthood in the Hudson Peconic region, spoke over Zoom this week about her work as an abortion provider, the epic struggle facing her organization, and its fund-raiser in Bridgehampton on June 4, at which she will be a featured speaker.

You might consider the phase “the Hamptons” a tad pretentious and semi-newly coined. But check out its use in The Star from back in 1897. And then in 1947, quick thinking saved a man overboard.

East Hampton Village’s “2023 tentative budget includes the biggest tax cut of the last 20 years,” the village’s administrator, Marcos Baladron, announced at a village board meeting on Friday.

It didn’t take long for the East Hampton Village lifeguard squad to get called into action this season, and their save of two boys caught in a rip current provided a good chance to educate the young swimmers about the dangers of such currents and how to deal with them.

Sparks will be flying in Springs on Saturday, when the Parsons Blacksmith Shop finally reopens after a two-year pandemic hiatus. The smithy, James DeMartis, ready for the day’s work in his knee-length leather apron, will be back at the centuries-old forge, hammering hot steel into hooks, nails, and horseshoes to delight the holiday weekend crowds.