Today: Sunny with a high of 76; winds 5 to 10 miles per hour out of the east-northeast. Clear overnight, low 62. Monday: Mostly sunny, high 78, winds south-southwest at 10 to 15 m.p.h. Three Mile Harbor tides: Sunday, low at 1:18 p.m.; high at 7:50 p.m. Sunset today: 8:21; sunrise tomorrow: 5:27 a.m.
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Two Accidents Involving Bikers Proved Fatal
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A 70-year-old man was cycling near the Lobster Roll Sunday when he apparently veered from the shoulder into the lane of traffic and was hit. As police investigated, the road was closed in both directions.
By Christine Sampson
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According to the Southampton Town Police Department, the boy was struck late Thursday afternoon by a pickup truck that was leaving a work site on Townline Road. The driver stayed on the scene.
By Christine Sampson
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Glamping Returns to Cedar Point County Park |
While it is less than a 15-minute drive from the hustle and bustle of East Hampton's Main Street in July, Cedar Point County Park in East Hampton's Northwest Woods feels a world away, which makes it both special and surprising. This year, Doug and Lee Biviano, who also operate concessions at the Fire Island National Seashore, have reopened the camp store and brought glamping back to the park.
By Carissa Katz
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When young Ella and Gracie Wobensmith found the diamondback turtle on a Noyack Bay beach four years ago it, had serious wounds to its shell and a punctured lung. It was rehabilitated at a turtle rescue center, and this week the girls had a chance to help release it back into the wild.
By Tom Gogola
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The Rev. Alexander Karloutsos, the pastor at Dormition of the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Church of the Hamptons in Shinnecock Hills, was awarded the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom by Joe Biden Thursday at a White House ceremony on Thursday.
By Tom Gogola
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East Hampton Town’s Energy and Sustainability Advisory Committee has recommended to the town board that all building permits for new residential and commercial construction issued after Dec. 31 require that all appliances, including heating and cooling systems, be electric and energy efficient.
By Christopher Walsh
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One year after a landmark deal in Southampton returned Shinnecock Nation burial grounds to the tribe, New York State stands poised to enact two bills that would further honor Long Island’s Indigenous populations.
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The paddleboard and kayak rental and lesson business has a new home at the Three Mile Marina. "I feel so lucky. This is the perfect place," said Gina Bradley.
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Thanks to a wide base of community support that its leaders say has allowed it to grow into a strong local nonprofit, Organizacion Latino-Americana of Eastern Long Island is marking its 20th anniversary this year.
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“This is exactly the type of project we hoped would come forward,” Ed Haye, a Sag Harbor Village trustee, said at Friday’s special meeting to discuss a 79-unit proposal for affordable housing in Sag Harbor’s downtown office district that was pitched to the village by Adam Potter and Conifer Developers.
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Careful observers may have noticed the removal of 1,600 square feet of phragmites and other vegetation along Hook Pond in East Hampton near the Main Beach parking lot. The project is part of an effort to restore the wetland buffer and create a meadow at a property that East Hampton Town acquired three years ago.
By Christopher Gangemi
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Language is being finalized for a Nov. 8 referendum that will ask voters whether to approve a .5-percent real estate transfer tax to be allocated to a community housing fund, which would be in addition to the 2-percent transfer tax for the community preservation fund.
By Christopher Walsh
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In response to the Supreme Court of the United States having overturned a 1913 New York State statute that sharply restricted the carrying of concealed firearms in public, Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday signed legislation bolstering the state’s concealed-carry restrictions.
By Christopher Walsh
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A group of high schoolers, biking in the woods, come across a group of abandoned buildings. Sound like the beginning of a film? That’s exactly how it began for Fin Wrazej, a rising senior at Grace Church School in Manhattan, whose "discovery" of the dilapidated Brooks-Park house and studios in Springs woods sparked the idea for a short documentary.
By Judy D'Mello
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The East Hampton Level Playing Field Foundation will provide scholarships to students for help with applications, essay coaching, test preparation, and other aspects of college admissions.
By Christine Sampson
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The Amagansett U.S. Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station will host its sixth annual lobster bake fund-raiser on Saturday from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the restored 1902 building on Atlantic Avenue.
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The filmmaker Rachel Fleit's longstanding interest in stories of struggle, difference, and resilience led to her award-winning documentary "Introducing, Selma Blair," which illuminates the actress's life with multiple sclerosis.
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Laura Donnelly visits the five South Fork farmers markets and comes home with tales, produce, recipes, and new friends.
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The Hamptons Fine Art Fair will host 100 galleries from 11 countries, including the Lysenko Gallery from Kyiv, which had to flee the city with its artwork and transport it to Southampton.
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Crystal Winter, a former Montauker and 2002 graduate of East Hampton High School, is to play this week for the powerful United States national women’s flag football team in the World Games.
By Jack Graves
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Serena Vegessi Schick, who died last fall, touched many in Montauk who work on the water, having spent years in her youth and early adulthood, as well as the final few months of her life, working the deck of the Bones netting or filleting fish, untying tangles, or just patiently helping youngsters catch the first fish of their lives.
By Jon M. Diat
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It may be five minutes for fighting in the N.H.L., but not so in East Hampton’s 7-on-7 men’s soccer league, whose overseer, Leslie Czeladko, recently expelled five players from league play.
By Jack Graves
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The lives of artists, complicated women, heartbreak, and the consolation of great art are subjects in Frederic Tuten’s “The Bar at Twilight.”
Reviewed by Kurt Wenzel
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This letter, written on July 7, 1803, by John Lyon Gardiner (1770-1816), proprietor of Gardiner’s Island, was sent to his younger brother, David Gardiner (1772-1815), a lawyer and farmer in Flushing, Queens.
By Andrea Meyer
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