Montauk News Archives

Police stopped Linda Putnoy, 49, of Montauk on Sunday at 12:03 a.m. at Route 27 and Lincoln Road in Montauk and arrested her for DWI, a misdemeanor.

Sitting Democratic Town Justice Catherine Cahill, 55, has been on the bench in East Hampton for 16 years.

Rep. Peter King said Tuesday he had contacted Coast Guard officials and asked them to reconsider their decision to relieve Chief Petty Officer James Weber from command.

On a recent and particularly uninviting Saturday morning, a small group of seven people gathered at 10 a.m. at Napeague Harbor Road to participate in a 3-mile poetry hike in the magnificent walking dunes.

The buyer of disgraced financier Bernie Madoff's four-bedroom beach house in Montauk, N.Y. has been revealed, and it's real-estate mogul Steven Roth, who paid $9.41 million for Madoff's scruffy property.

A Coast Guard 47-foot rescue boat trains about 8 a.m. on Aug. 23, 2009, in the surf off Montauk Point.

People travel the world, which is not a bad thing, just hard and expensive to do with a family .

Legendary photographer Peter Beard has been complaining about the Hamptons for years.

The men are gregarious; they're lively and engaging orators. The women are more subdued; they are soft spoken and serious.

We were feeling quite like a celebrity with our press badge hanging about the neck when the Hamptons International Film Festival came to town.

Police arrested John McHugh, 40, of East Hampton on October 4 at 1:17 a.m. at Main Street and Atlantic Avenue in Amagansett and charged him with aggravated DWI with a prior conviction in 10 years, a misdemeanor.

Epic swindler Bernard Madoff's former beach home off the eastern-most point of New York's Long Island sold for $9.41 million, money that will go toward a fund for defrauded investors, the U.S. Marshals Service said on Friday.

Recently a radio broadcaster raised a few million to keep its organization going.

The world thought Scrubs actor Zach Braff was dead yesterday for a few hours--suicide, they said.

Ah-oooo: Monsters of Honolulu at Chinatown Boardroom this month. Remember the Montauk monster? Therea s still controversy over whether that bald, beaked demon of a corpse that washed ashore near Montauk, N.Y., in July 2008 was a known species or some sort of otherworldly mutant.

Unlike past covers, this week's image doesn't feature the current Hamptons International Film Festival poster by Bryan Hunt.

We first met Terry Bienstock way back in July at the library book fair. Terry was weighing books, and while chatting, we learned that he was president of the Montauk Observatory and, with David Larkin, of East Hampton, he had underwritten the purchase of the giant telescope now residing in Roosevelt County Park.

Daniel Monteiro, 21, of East Hampton was stopped on September 29 at 10:02 a.m. at South Erie Street and South Embassy Street in Montauk and charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the third degree, a misdemeanor, and unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation.

Vocal music students and educators are invited to attend "Real women. Real harmony.

Suffolk County Legislator Jay Schneiderman and Southampton Town Trustees Eric Shultz and Ed Warner Jr.

Cesar F. Astudillo, 30, of East Hampton was arrested on September 14 at 12:20 a.m. at Springs Fireplace Road and Old Stone Highway in Springs and charged with aggravated unlicensed operation in the first degree, a felony, and DWI with prior conviction within the last 10 years, a misdemeanor.