East Hampton News

A Michael Jackson painting created by King of Pop Art Andy Warhol in 1984 has been under the hammer at the Vered Gallery of East Hampton.

With the arrival of summer, and the July 4th holiday weekend, the eyes of many New Yorkers turn lovingly East towards the far ends of Long Island.

Blame it on the weather. We've had at least 40 days of rain and cold crappy weather.

Fireworks will continue on the South Fork this week and next. The Shelter Island Chamber of Commerce will host fireworks on Saturday, July 11, off Crescent Beach at 9 p.m. For more information, call 749-0399, or visit shelterislandchamber.com. The Clamshell Foundation will hold its annual fireworks celebration on Saturday, July 18, just after 9 ...

Corcoran rented this five bedroom Southampton house early last month. While it is clearly too early to do a full autopsy on the Hamptons rental market, brokers say this season will likely go down as one of the toughest a ' and strangest a ' in recent memory.

Maybe it's just me, but when someone tells me that a restaurant is located down some alley across the way from a movie theater, I start wondering what's playing at the theater instead of what they're serving at the restaurant.

Michael Stephens, 29, of Brooklyn was arrested on an executive warrant on Sunday, June 21, at 4:52 p.m. at Schermerhorn Street and Smith Street in Brooklyn and charged with criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the third degree, both misdemeanors.

The exterior of the newly opened Reform Club in Amagansett, N.Y. The New York area's fabled summer retreats - the Hamptons, Fire Island, etc.

We have lots of good news this week from local college students. William Schumann and Sarah Tabet, both members of the class of 2010 and residents of East Hampton, achieved dean's list honors for the 2009 spring semester at Connecticut College.

No matter how you felt about him, Michael Jackson's death has left a huge void in the world of pop music.

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

Julian Rojas, 46, of East Hampton was arrested on June 11 at 6:08 p.m. at Middle Highway and Oakview Highway in East Hampton and charged with criminal contempt in the first degree, a felony.

There's something about getting out of the city and into the country that improves ones general outlook on life.

William Shapiro, a 2002 East Hampton High School graduate has made the dean's list for the third consecutive semester at Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan.

If the increase in the number of guests at recent meetings of the Wainscott Citizens Advisory Committee is any indication, there must be renewed interest in the group's work.

East Hampton Town's former budget officer Ted Hults was released on his own recognizance Thursday after his arraignment on multiple felony counts of fraud and related charges.

East Hampton Village Police made four drug arrests last week in the village center, including one of a man allegedly caught using a hypodermic needle to inject a narcotic similar to heroin and three others for the possession of crack cocaine.

The insufferably rumored reopening of The Blue Parrot in East Hampton, whose media machine works overtime to generate buzz and make the return seem effortless, is slated for this weekend.

East Hampton Town has won a federal lawsuit brought by the owners of the Viking Fleet in Montauk over the town's ban on high speed and vehicular ferry traffic.

Anthony Fernicola, 36, of New Jersey was arrested on June 1 at 2:01 a.m. at the Montauk Highway and South Embassy Street in Montauk and charged with DWI and resisting arrest, both misdemeanors, and harassment in the second degree, a violation.