Villages

Weeks before Stony Brook Medicine’s hospitals and providers were to be removed from UnitedHealthcare’s network following the expiration of a contract, the two parties have come to terms with respect to new agreements for hospital, physician, and ancillary services.

This postcard from the Harvey Ginsberg Postcard Collection shows the D.W. McCord House on Hither Lane, designed by Grosvenor Atterbury. Dr. Clarence Rice was among its other esteemed owners.

Bioengineered in England, the Purple Tomato’s deep color is due to the presence of snapdragon genes, and the antioxidant-rich fruit is touted as having a longer shelf life than an heirloom variety.

The East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals said Friday it wants action, not talk, from Harry Macklowe, the billionaire real estate developer whose 64 West End Road property has long flouted village law.

When the Amagansett coast was mined — not by the Nazis, but by us. Fifty years later, there was a real invasion — of gypsy moths.

Sag Harbor Village Mayor Thomas Gardella and Bob Plumb and Aiden Corish of the village board were each re-elected on Tuesday in uncontested races.

Canio’s Cultural Cafe, the educational nonprofit that operated from Canio’s Books in Sag Harbor from 2009 until the bookstore’s closing in September, has found a new home at the Old Whalers Church, not far from its former Main Street site. 

There was rain, and then some, but there were plenty of rainbows at the East Hampton Village Pride Parade on Saturday, led this year by the Tony Award-winning performer, writer, and filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell as grand marshal. 

The Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center, in partnership with the Long Island Housing Coalition, will host an East End Community Housing Summit on Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. 

A celebration of the 143rd birthday of John Howard Payne was held throughout East Hampton over three weeks in 1934. This photo shows just one of the highlights, set up on the Guild Hall grounds.

The Ladies Village Improvement Society’s annual fair happens on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and this year’s “is bigger than ever,” the society says. Not only will the carousel be back, but the Playland area for kids will be expanded. There will be face painting, a roving magician, a bubble artist, and pony rides for the little ones. 

Frank Calvo, the longtime pharmacist at White’s Drug and Department Store, which closed on Oct. 31, has opened Montauk Chemists on Main Street and is selling over-the-counter merchandise including vitamins and self-care products. One week after an inspection of the store’s pharmacy, however, he is still awaiting New York State approval to operate it. 

Organizacion Latino Americana of Eastern Long Island is launching a rapid response action plan following an increase in Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests on Long Island. Operation Stand and Protect has been established to provide access to “an active cohort of local volunteers who are ready to witness, engage, and act swiftly and peacefully to document ICE activities.”

In some ways, Gosman’s Dock, one of Montauk’s few remaining family-owned and operated businesses until its October 2024 sale, closely resembles the complex of restaurants and shops long revered by locals and visitors alike. In other ways, though, it is markedly different under its new ownership. 

When race cars, not jets, roared at the Westhampton Beach airport, and in the Same as It Ever Was Dept., a panic over worker housing from back in 2000.

A 2005 New York Times article credited the architect Norman Jaffe, who lived in Bridgehampton until his death in 1993, with pioneering the “design of rustic Modernist houses in the Hamptons.” Yet his houses, despite their significance in the architectural world, are largely unprotected. Even his own house was demolished after his death. 

As East Hampton prepares for its fourth annual Pride Parade, set to kick off in front of the Presbyterian Church on Saturday at noon and culminate in an afternoon of “celebration, family fun, and live musical performances” in Herrick Park, organizers are anticipating their largest and “most vibrant” showing to date. 

This photo from The Star’s archive shows the gambrel-roofed Amagansett station built in 1911, in use until the early 1960s, and famously the departure point of the 1942 Nazi saboteurs.

Excitement was in the air at East Hampton Town Airport on Tuesday as five passengers entered the Beta Technologies Alia all-electric aircraft for the first-ever electric plane passenger flight in the United States. “I think quiet and sustainable aviation is the future,” said Rob Wiesenthal, the C.E.O. of Blade Air Mobility and one of the plane’s passengers.

Colin Beavan, formerly “No Impact Man,” now an executive coach, is offering a way to direct the great abundance here — of money, of celebrity, of influence — for a better world. He will lead three gatherings aimed at “those ready to step out of the noise and into meaningful, catalytic connection.”

Contamination was top of mind in the year 2000, from kids’ crayons to Sag Harbor’s Rowe Industries, a Superfund site at the time.

A memorial service for Thomas Ferreira, a Montauk mechanic and noted litigant against the town, will be held on Saturday from noon to 1 p.m. at Edward Vincent Ecker Sr. County Park in Montauk. Mr. Ferreira died in September.

The basketball careers of Howard and Kenny Wood, who are to be inducted into the Suffolk County Sports Hall of Fame tonight, will be celebrated Friday as well at a party at the Clubhouse in Wainscott from 5 to 7 p.m.

A copy of the 1944 “East Hampton Social Guide” from the L.V.I.S. offers a fascinating snapshot of the local businesses and transit options of the time.

The sacrifice of “those who paid so terrible a price to ensure that freedom would be our legacy” was underlined again and again during Memorial Day observances in East Hampton. “If you want to honor their memory, then do the things they can’t,” said retired Marine Major Conlon Carabine. “Care for your family, care for yourself, care for your community, and try not to take the simple things in life for granted.”

“We call ourselves East Hampton’s front porch because we’re the first thing you see when you pull into the village,” Sarah Wetenhall, who now owns the inn with her husband, Andrew, said. “One of our big missions here is to make the Hedges and Swifty’s open and available for the community.”

Thunder strikes in 1925, thieves strike in 1975, and the P.O. drops the ball in the year 2000.

Adoring fans flocked to the village Thursday, where Tom Brady cut the ribbon at CardVault by Tom Brady on Newtown Lane and then tossed footballs from a stage in Herrick Park.

On Saturday, Dr. Edwin Keeshan led Montauk’s inaugural Walk With a Doc, part of a national initiative to help people become more physically active while spending time in nature, building friendships, and learning a thing or two about wellness.

New businesses in the village range from a Rolex at the old Odd Fellows Hall and Tom Brady's sports collectible shop, CardVault, to restaurants, takeout spots, and the newly revamped Hedges Inn.