Bridgehampton News

Former Africa Israel USA chief executive Rotem Rosen has been named president of Polar USA/HFZ Capital, The Real Deal has learned.

Last Friday, Ruth Madoff agreed to give up her claim to the Montauk oceanfront home in Hither Hills that she and her husband Bernie have owned and enjoyed for the last 15 years.

Scenes from Westhampton Beach Village will soon be immortalized in virtual reality, as part of a new computer game that is affiliated with USA Network's "Royal Pains," a new television series about a Manhattan doctor who flees the city to start over in the Hamptons.

Copa, a wine-and-tapas bar, is expected to open soon, maybe as early as this weekend, in Bridgehampton.

Wanna live in the fabulous Hamptons on the site of a former nuclear missile base? That is what advisors are hoping will lure people to this 96-acre parcel in the scrub pines of Westhampton adjacent to Gabreski Airport, just in back of Old Country Road.

Howard Lorber , chairman of Prudential Douglas Elliman , is on the list of Bernard Madoff victims , according to Vanity Fair.

On July 6 at noon in the Municipal Building in Sag Harbor, Brian Gilbride will cap 20 years of public service on both the town and village level by assuming the duties of Mayor of the Village of Sag Harbor.

For Israeli teenagers Edan Daniel and Yasmin Dunsky, coming to America as a delegate for the Israel Scouts was a dream come true.

This Sunday at Guild Hall, Visiting Mr. Green, a major play with local roots, will be presented as a staged reading.

Last week I wrote extensively about the disgust, anger, revulsion and even acts of violence exhibited by residents of this place when they have returned to a private parking lot to find that their cars have been immobilized with an iron boot on a front tire.

The Rev. Donald G. Huston died June 13, 2009, in West Chester, Pa. He was born May 19, 1928, in Pittsburgh to the late J. Leslie and Kathryn Huston.

It took nearly two years, but Lisa Kerkorian, ex-wife of billionaire Kirk Kerkorian , may finally have found a buyer for her 10,000-square-foot Bridgehampton barn.

Last weekend, Billy Joel was not sitting at his baby grand nor cruising around the harbors in his custom-made Down Easter boats.

"When I left office in East Hampton Town we had money in the bank. McGintee says he succeeded me in office and found a secret deficit? Let me put it this way.

Sister and brother Erin and Frank Dumicich act out the ultimate sibling rivalry.

Maybe because it's been such a dreary spring - the worst I can remember in 20 years and not the best for the strawberry crop - that I have managed to generally overlook the Bridgehampton United Methodist Church's annual Strawberry Feast, which takes place on Saturday, June 20, from 5 to 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students.

For what may have been the 16th time in 2009, Southampton Village Police were called to Madame Tong's restaurant on Thursday afternoon as mediators in the ongoing ownership battle between restaurateur Ed "Jean Luc" Kleefield and local businessman Lyle Pike.

When my parents moved out to the Hamptons in the 1950s when I was a teenager, there was little regard for the history or architecture of this place.

With Sag Harbor Village elections slated for Tuesday, June 16, on Sunday three mayoral and four trustee candidates gathered at a Coalition of Neighborhoods for the Preservation of Sag Harbor forum to debate the issues.

Nearly 5.6 million Americans sat down to watch the debut of the new USA Network's television show, "Royal Pains," last Thursday night.