Amagansett News

East Hampton's library board chairman and former historian is helping to expand its online Long Island history collection containing many one-of-a-kind documents -- by donating all proceeds from his new book.

James Toback and Michael Mailer's feature documentary Seduced and Abandoned , starring Amagansett actor Alec Baldwin, will premiere as a Special Screening in the Official Selection at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival on Monday, May 20, 2013.Produced by Mailer, Baldwin and Toback, and executive-produced by Alan Helene, Larry Herbert, Neal Schneider ... (more)

Amagansett A Stihl chainsaw and a Jaquelyne armchair were taken from a Surf Drive house early last month.

"Anything new on the 555 front?" East Hampton Town Councilwoman Sylvia Overby said she inquired casually on Monday afternoon as she passed Marguerite Wolffsohn's office at Town Hall.

Hamptons regular Ireland Baldwin, daughter of Amagansett's Alec Baldwin, spoke out with a very sensible and wise a blog post last week after her physical appearance was criticized and she was called "too fat to model." Ireland shared her modeling aspirations with the media last month, and is featured in the June issue of Vanity Fair .Here's what ... (more)

East Hampton A jacket containing a new iPhone and $80 in cash was removed from a locker at the recreation park on Abraham's Path while its owner, Seguado Tacyri, played soccer on April 12.

Decoupage Book Collage On Wednesday from 4 to 5 p.m., kids can celebrate Children's Book Week by creating tributes to their favorite books at the East Hampton Library.

When Jann and Jane Wenner split in 1995, the coupled stayed married, putting off the legal wrangling that would inevitably arise when they split their publishing empire.

A new budget, a new village administrator, a new lighted crosswalk, and a new source of fuel at the Emergency Services Building were topics of discussion at an East Hampton Village Board work session last Thursday.

An Amagansett man who drove his 2010 Ford into a utility pole on Friday night was drunk at the time, according to East Hampton Town police, and wound up charged with an alcohol-related felony, aggravated driving while intoxicated.

It appears that East Hampton Village administrator Larry Cantwell has secured the two nominations he hoped to carry into this fall's race for East Hampton Town Supervisor.

Finding your favorite SNL clips on popular video sharing sites has never been easy, especially if you want to watch a clean image rather than something filmed off another user's television, but all that changes this fall.Amagansett resident Lorne Michaels has partnered with Yahoo to develop an exclusive online hub for 38 years of Saturday Night ... (more)

Former hedgie Frank Trentacoste shocked his friends when he left finance for farming, and along with it his TriBeCa pad and a fast-paced lifestyle of restaurants and bars.

The star of the Iron Man movies, health guru and red-carpet provocateur, provokes wildly differing reactions.

The South Fork Natural History Society has set its sights on establishing a museum at Montauk Point State Park.

An Amagansett man is charged with felony forgery after police found him with fake tickets for the Hampton Jitney bus line, Southampton Town police said Monday.

Amagansett's Gwyneth Paltrow is giving neighbor Alec Baldwin a run for his money as the Hamptons' busiest star this month.

School board elections are heating up as unusually contested this year in East Hampton and Springs, with five newcomers and an incumbent battling for three openings in East Hampton and three candidates hoping to fill two places in Springs.

Amagansett Police received a call Friday reporting that an Atlantic Avenue house had had its roof damaged earlier this month.

Edward M. Orr, who pleaded guilty last month to the Oct. 25, 2012, hit-and-run killing of an Amagansett man, John Judge, was sentenced yesterday in a near-empty courtroom to serve two to six years in state prison.