Villages

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The painter Gaines Ruger Donoho’s house gets an addition in 1897, a 1922 report looks at potato planting on the South Fork, and “the Hamptons as playground” is dissected in a 1947 Holiday magazine article.