Villages

The 1942 Nazi saboteur landing on the ocean beach in Amagansett will be commemorated at the Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station Friday at 6 p.m. An evening of film, re-enactment, and speculation on the infamous interception of Nazi infiltration on the Amagansett shore is in store.

Saturday’s the day for the much-anticipated Ladies Village Improvement Society Fair, and to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary the organization has invited other nonprofits to set up interactive booths highlighting the country’s history.

This aerial photograph, taken by Dave Edwardes between 1945 and 1960, shows the end of Ocean Avenue, with the pavilion and the Sea Spray Inn and cottages. Here’s a brief history.

The Springs School’s Mystery Art Sale, which shows off 5-by-7-inch works by students and adult artists offered at $20 apiece, will take over Ashawagh Hall from Friday through Sunday.

Jim Vrettos and Dr. Asma Rashid have organized a gathering with Aziz Abu Sarah, a Palestinian, and Maoz Inon, an Israeli, the authors of “The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land,” in Bridgehampton Saturday night.

The day a man on Pantigo found a box turtle with initials etched into its shell’s underside from 40 years earlier. And other curiosities from our past pages.

L.I.R.R. service will increase significantly for the U.S. Open, slated to begin at Shinnecock Hills on Monday and run through June 21, with a newly constructed train stop at the college seeing an additional seven to eight trains per day.

For years, the names etched into weatherworn headstones faded quietly beneath layers of dirt, lichen, and time —until Jason Bono began restoring them one at a time.

Saturday is shaping up to be a perfect day for the fifth annual Hamptons Pride Parade in East Hampton Village. Those who want to walk in the parade have until Thursday to register. 

Newtown Lane will be closed at 5 p.m. Friday, when East Hampton Village holds a block party and New York Knicks watch party. 

It costs almost nothing, targets only mosquitoes, won’t poison the air, kids, or animals, and it won’t run off into the bays and ponds. It’s a mosquito bucket.

This program accompanied an exhibition guest-curated by Alastair Gordon exploring themes that later appeared in his book “Weekend Utopia: Modern Living in the Hamptons.” He’ll speak about a new edition of it at the East Hampton Library at 5 p.m. on June 11.

The annual fireworks show at Main Beach in East Hampton Village, once a Fourth of July tradition but more recently held in mid to late August, will once again take place on July 4. In Montauk, fireworks will move from the ocean beach to the Block Island Sound side of the hamlet.

The East Hampton Village Foundation has announced the first four concerts of its summer 2026 Tuesdays at Main Beach series.

A managing partner in the group that owns the Offshore Montauk hotel and the Este restaurant that is under construction may have assuaged some concerns when he addressed the Montauk Citizens Advisory Committee this week, but skepticism clearly lingered among a segment of the large crowd.

It happened here, news junkies.

Unsure if it was not in fact a prank, a WLNG D.J. relayed the call that had just come to the Sag Harbor radio station last Thursday: Two baby goats and a pony were missing from their Wainscott home.

Elizabeth Parsons Edwards (1874-1943), seen in this undated photo, worked her family farm on Fireplace Road, canning vegetables and making everything from butter to clothing to music.

More ripped from our voluminous pages.

Memorial Day weekend was a washout at East Hampton Village’s vaunted beaches, but inclement weather did not dampen the enthusiasm felt by Sean Daly for his new role as the village’s chief lifeguard, succeeding Drew Smith.

The L.V.I.S., which maintains the trees, greens, ponds, and parks that characterize East Hampton Village, has announced a plan to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States by planting 250 trees over the next decade.

Nancy Remkus, a guest minister at the Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor, was among 19 Suffolk County residents celebrated as a champion of diversity on Sunday, when County Legislator Ann Welker presented her with an award after the nondenominational service.

Public opinion, policy-makers, and $5-a-gallon gasoline are all lining up against gas-powered leaf blowers. That was the backdrop to an electric-blower demonstration, sponsored by ChangeHampton, held on the Town Hall campus May 16.

This image from the Amagansett Historical Association’s collection was published in Harper’s Weekly on Jan. 31, 1885, with an article about the capture of a whale off Southampton.

New York City residents who plan to spend Memorial Day weekend on the South Fork and commuters who rely on the train to cut through the eastbound morning traffic were breathing easier as of Monday night, when a strike called by a coalition of five Long Island Rail Road unions was settled.

The East Hampton Town Marine Museum on Bluff Road in Amagansett will be closed to the public through the summer as the town and the East Hampton Historical Society plan a comprehensive, multiyear renovation after a burst pipe damaged the building over the winter.

Only 4 percent of Boy Scouts become Eagle Scouts, and Calogero Sferrazza, a junior at Pierson High School, is about to become one of them. As a scout, he has earned almost 21 merit badges, and plans to earn his final credentials with a project honoring veterans in his hometown of Sag Harbor. 

From matters frippery to consequential, it happened here.

ReWild Long Island will resume hosting compost tables at the Springs Farmers Market this weekend, with more coming to Amber Waves Farm and the Montauk Community Garden.

East Hampton Village residents will pay a slightly lower tax rate in fiscal year 2027 than in 2026, according to a summary of the tentative budget issued by Marcos Baladron, the village administrator, to Mayor Jerry Larsen and the village board this week.