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Holiday Favorites From 125 Years Ago

One of our best resources for traditional local recipes is our collection of cookbooks compiled by the Ladies Village Improvement Society, something its members have been doing for 125 years now.

Nov 24, 2021
A New Director at John Jermain Library

Sag Harbor’s John Jermain Memorial Library announced that Kelly Harris, for many years the director of the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton, would take over as its new executive director, effective Jan. 3.

Nov 24, 2021
Covid Testing Has Returned to Town Hall Campus

Testing for Covid-19 has resumed at the East Hampton Town Hall campus, now provided by CareONE Concierge. Appointments are not required. Testing is no longer being offered at the former Child Development Center of the Hamptons on Stephen Hand's Path.

Nov 22, 2021
Library Item of the Week: Restoring the Old Whalers Church

Sag Harbor’s First Presbyterian Church, often called the Old Whalers Church, has experienced many evolutions since its first building was constructed in 1766. In 1816 that building, known as the Old Barn Church, was replaced with a larger meeting place for a growing congregation.

Nov 18, 2021
Bivalve Burglary in the Bays

A Stony Brook University Ph.D. student studying triploid oysters in Napeague Harbor and Great South Bay was disappointed to learn that someone had raided both study areas and waded away with thousands of mature triploid oysters over the last several months.

Nov 18, 2021
Island Shaken by Tornadoes

The National Weather Service has said that a record-breaking six tornadoes touched down on Long Island during Saturday’s powerful storm, hitting with force as far east as Hampton Bays and North Sea, and though East Hampton was spared the worst of it, one family in Springs had huge trees fall on their house and car. The house was intact, but the car was totaled.

Nov 18, 2021
Housing Advocates Focus on Sag Harbor

The Sag Harbor group East End YIMBY is ramping up its advocacy efforts to create more affordable housing close to home, and last week asked the Sag Harbor Village Board to consider five recommendation for inclusionary zoning that would help pave the way for more housing opportunities in the village.

Nov 18, 2021
The Way It Was for November 18

From the past pages of The Star . . .

Nov 18, 2021
Covid Ticks Up Again as Weather Cools

As the weather grows colder, Covid-19 is once again on the upswing in New York, including in East Hampton Town and across Suffolk County, and health care professionals are pleading with the public to remain vigilant and, yes, get vaccinated if they have not yet done so.

Nov 18, 2021
There's No Place Like Home

As it turns out, the get-outta-town narrative, explored in last week's East Hampton Star by several prominent community members who recently moved away, is far from the only story there is to tell.

Nov 11, 2021
Every Line by Moran’s Hand

This etching, one of a number of works titled “The Much Resounding Sea” by the artist Thomas Moran of East Hampton (1837-1926), was completed in 1886, two years after his similar but less detailed oil painting of the same name. The etching is a newer acquisition for the Long Island Collection, bought at auction in May.

Nov 11, 2021
On Call: Blink, and It's Eighteen Months

I remember the underscore of terror in the early days of the pandemic, wondering if my working in an I.C.U. and taking care of some of the first patients with Covid-19 in our region was going to endanger my family. Eighteen months later, I can hardly believe that I am watching a friend and colleague deftly vaccinate all four of my children against Covid-19.

Nov 11, 2021