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Gagosian Buys BookHampton; School Votes; Traveling Vietnam Memorial
Matthew Charron
May 17, 2025
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May 17, 2025
Today: Showers expected early followed by overcast skies and slight clearing later, high 68, winds south-southwest at 5 to 10 miles per hour. Tonight: Partly cloudy, low 56. Tomorrow: Mostly sunny, high 70, winds west at 10 to 20 m.p.h. Sunset tonight: 8:02. Sunrise tomorrow: 5:28. Three Mile Harbor tides today: Low, 8:12 a.m. and 8:13 p.m.; high, 2:35 p.m.
The art dealer Larry Gagosian is the new owner of the stalwart East Hampton Village bookstore, BookHampton, which has been for sale since the fall. "It would have been a horrible thing to lose that bookstore," he said Thursday. "When I heard it was for sale, I jumped at the opportunity."
By Christopher Gangemi
 | “Getting to the wall is one of the steps in the healing process for combat vets from Vietnam. A lot of guys have survivor’s guilt. Maybe they missed a patrol and lost a bunch of buddies. Then there are family members who bring their kids and grandkids,” said Doc Russo, who travels around the country with a 300-foot replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall in Washington, D.C. By Christopher Gangemi |
 | Word that the United States Coast Guard has proposed to remove hundreds of navigational markers along the Northeast coast, including buoys, day beacons, and lights, is drawing a mostly negative reaction among mariners in East Hampton Town, with commercial fishermen and others warning that their removal would worsen already dangerous conditions. By Christopher Walsh |
Russell Young was getting ready for bed at home in East Hampton around 10:30 on the night of March 6, when the 32-year-old’s heart, suddenly and without warning, stopped functioning as it always had before. His wife, Laura Young, immediately swung into action. A police officer’s quick response time and emergency training got them through the “crucial moments” before the ambulance arrived.
By Bettina Neel
 | After a few years of inflationary pressures that had some school districts here piercing the state-mandated cap on tax levy increases, this year the easternmost districts on the South Fork are all proposing budgets for the 2025-26 school year that stay at or below the cap and will require only a simple majority to pass when voters go to the polls on Tuesday. By Denis Hartnett |
 | As the district works to put a tumultous period behind it, two incumbents on the board — Wayne Gauger and Kristen Peterson — are seeking re-election, with a third — Joseph Karpinski —- a parent of three children at the school and a vocal critic of the board and certain administrators, also vying for one of two seats. By Christopher Walsh |
 | In the Springs School District three people are running for two seats. The incumbents Erik Fredrickson and Emma Field are seeking second terms, while Gerard Picco is running for his first. By Denis Hartnett |
 | Only one name, Leigh-Ann Hess, will appear on the ballot to replace Diane Hausman on the Montauk School Board this year, but a late challenger, Tara Coleman, has mounted a write-in campaign. By Denis Hartnett |
 | Sam Schneider, assistant superintendent for business at the East Hampton School District, has been named the Gregory E. Carlson Outstanding School Business Official of the Year by the New York Association of School Business Officials. By Denis Hartnett |
A serious accident in East Hampton Village during the morning commute on Monday resulted in Main Street being closed to traffic near Mill Road for several hours as investigators worked to determine exactly what happened.
By Christopher Gangemi
 | By failing to adhere to an East Hampton Village deadline of May 1, the Springs Fire District and Sag Harbor Village have, by default, opted to use either East Hampton Town or Suffolk County for fire and emergency medical dispatch services starting next year. By Christopher Gangemi |
 | With a $338,000 grant from the East Hampton Town Community Housing Fund to help cover “soft costs,” the Windmill I senior citizen housing development is honing plans to add 20 new units to its property on Accabonac Road. By Christopher Gangemi |
 | LTV has launched the Pine Protection Project, an effort to address the southern pine beetle’s devastating impact on East Hampton Town’s pitch-pine forests. The project is a multifaceted approach with a goal of fostering discussion leading to action and solutions, and will include a June 11 panel discussion at LTV Studios in Wainscott. By Christopher Walsh |
No sooner had Trevor Meehan pitched the first no-hitter here in 30 years than he turned around a week later and pitched another one.
By Jack Graves
 | When the record-breaking big-wave bodyboarder Andrew Karr opened his surf school in the summer of 2021, the name came naturally. “I have always called people ‘legend,’ like affectionately. And I’ve done that since I was a kid,” he said. So when a student’s father suggested he name his company Legend Surf Co., he didn’t think twice. By Bettina Neel |
 | East Hampton High’s softball team “mercied” Harborfields in both ends of a doubleheader here Saturday, thus clinching a berth in the AA playoffs with a 10-6 record. By Jack Graves |
 | The news I read from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration a few weeks ago made me recall great times pertaining to the most iconic fish in the world. By Jon M. Diat |
 | What if T.S. Eliot had started at Exit 70 on the Long Island Expressway? By Francis Levy |
 | How that Napeague icon, the D’Amico Institute of Art and its flagship vessel, the Art Barge, came to be. By Julia Tyson |
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