East Hampton News

Business titans and celebrities with homes in the Hamptons -- used to getting what they want when they want it -- can create headaches for officials enforcing laws meant to preserve the bucolic scenery.

Several fire departments on the South Fork were called in by the Bridgehampton Fire Department to battle a blaze on Dune Road in Bridgehampton early Saturday morning.

Workers are still building a rooftop garden to grow fresh salad greens and vegetables and completing a back terrace serving area at Page at 63 Main in Sag Harbor, and the restaurant's new chef, James Carpenter, who arrived just two weeks ago after his most recent stint at East Hampton Point, is busy himself, pulling together a new menu in time for ... (more)

At the entryway to Springs, at 4 Springs Fireplace Road and North Main Street, with scenic vistas of "old East Hampton" farmland sit three acres from the original Sherrill farm dating back to 1792.

At 11:49 a.m. on Wednesday, April 16 the East Hampton Fire Department was dispatched to Route 114 north of Stephen Hands Path for a report of a motor vehicle accident with entrapment.

While the weather may indicate otherwise, the summer season is nigh and weighing on the minds of the East Hampton Town Board.

"The sadness of an era passed," one member of the Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee called it, as the committee considered on Monday night whether to support a proposed ban on alcoholic beverages at the hamlet's two popular ocean beaches, Indian Wells and Atlantic Avenue.

Concluding the Jason McCoy Gallery exhibition Li-lan: Five Decades - an exhibition of key works from the past 50 years by the acclaimed American painter-on Thursday, April 24, 2014, Carter Ratcliff will speak on his collaboration with the artist, creating the first major monograph on Li-lan, entitled The Art of Li-lan: A World Achieved .

An East Hampton man who has been in and out of prison for most of his adult life may be headed back again.

At our house, the back is a small world with a climbing tree for the boys, a garden, and a yard defined by mismatched fencing in various stages of repair.

Demolition began last week on the former Plitt Ford dealership on Montauk Highway in Wainscott, which was razed in preparation for a new 15,000-square-foot Home Goods furnishing store.

Gennaro Bruno Giugliano took down window decorations after a car slammed into the Red Horse Market building, shattering a glass window, on April 9. Two elderly drivers were involved in car crashes in the past eight days, both of which happened at the Red Horse Plaza in East Hampton Village.

Four fire departments responded to a blaze that destroyed an Amagansett house and threatened several others nearby in the early morning hours on Thursday.

The state Department of Public Service has taken several steps to help resolve a contentious power-cable project dispute in East Hampton, including eyeing "alternative generation" in the area to help meet what PSEG Long Island has said is an urgent reliability issue by this summer.

The driver of this Subaru was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital after a head-on collision with a work truck on Route 114 in East Hampton on Wednesday morning.

Special Meeting Set For April 23 The Army Corps and NYSDEC To Unveil Their Downtown Montauk Beach Proposal at a special meeting April 23 at 1 p.m. in the large meeting room at the East Hampton Town Hall.

An aerial map of Sag Harbor Village highlights key intersections being explored for improvement under a traffic calming initiative spearheaded by Serve Sag Harbor.

I call it governmental creep. That's creep not as in "creepy," although now that I consider that a bit more, perhaps that's not so far off.

Workers replace poles with taller ones on Toilsome Lane in East Hampton. The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday, April 15, 2014, that electric bills soared 13.2 percent, year over year, while the cost of natural gas and gasoline fell 4.2 percent and 4.4 percent, respectively.

For the fifth year in a row, the Richard Demato Gallery will host its annual Retreat Art Show, a benefit exhibition for the East Hampton domestic violence shelter, which brings together juried work selected by a panel of collectors and gallerists.