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Tom Brady Kicks Off Weekend; New Emergency Department Opens
Matthew Charron
May 24, 2025
May 24, 2025
Today: Partly cloudy, high 62, winds west at 10 to 20 miles per hour. Tonight: Cloudy, low 51. Tomorrow: A mix of clouds and sun, high 66, winds west-northwest at 10 to 15 miles per hour. Sunset tonight: 8:08. Sunrise tomorrow: 5:22. Three Mile Harbor tides today: High 8:03 a.m. and 8:28 p.m.; low, 2:01 p.m.
Adoring fans flocked to the village Thursday, where Tom Brady cut the ribbon at CardVault by Tom Brady on Newtown Lane and then tossed footballs from a stage in Herrick Park.
By Jack Graves
 | On the eve of Memorial Day weekend, the Stony Brook East Hampton Emergency Department opened at 400 Pantigo Place. It will operate 24 hours a day, seven day a week, 365 days a year, including holidays. By Christopher Walsh |
The United States House of Representatives passed President Trump's spending bill Wednesday night, sending it along to the Senate. In it is a quadrupling of the cap on the State and Local Tax deduction, known colloquially as the SALT deduction, which Representative Nick LaLota said in a press release early Thursday is "a significant win for Long Island taxpayers."
By Christopher Gangemi
A certain New York City tabloid did its best to sensationalize drone footage captured this month depicting a great white shark a few hundred feet off the Montauk shoreline, but the sighting is neither surprising nor cause for concern, a local expert insisted.
By Christopher Walsh
 | “This is a town project that’s on time and under budget,” said Maureen Cahill, a board member of the Montauk Community Playhouse Foundation, where a new aquatic and cultural center is on track to open before summer’s end. “It’s a really good model of town, state, and private funding that put this together. Without those three it doesn’t work.” By Denis Hartnett |
 | Memorial Day observances in East Hampton begin on Sunday when members of American Legion Post 419 and the Everit Albert Herter Veterans of Foreign Wars Post will travel by bus to cemeteries from Wainscott to Montauk to pay tribute to buried veterans, with rifle squad ceremonies at each one. By Star Staff |
Tickets go on sale Thursday for what is sure to be a highlight of this summer’s live music offerings on the South Fork. The 10-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and pianist Norah Jones will perform at the Montauk Lighthouse on Aug. 2, with proceeds benefiting the Montauk Historical Society.
By Christopher Walsh
 | New businesses in the village range from a Rolex at the old Odd Fellows Hall and Tom Brady's sports collectible shop, CardVault by Tom Brady, to restaurants, takeout spots, and the newly revamped Hedges Inn. By Christopher Gangemi |
 | As school districts across the East End tallied budget and school board votes Tuesday night, all eyes were on Montauk, where a $38.41 million renovation bond ended up failing by just 43 votes, with a record number of people weighing in. By Denis Hartnett, Carissa Katz and Christopher Walsh |
 | Nearly 200 “small cell” towers, each 42 feet tall, will be deployed across East Hampton Town, with over 150 slotted for Northwest Woods and Springs alone. The large majority, 129, could be operational by the end of the year. By Christopher Gangemi |
“It’s about history. It’s about preservation. It’s about sense of place, here, on eastern Long Island,” Irwin Levy says of the podcast he and Esperanza Leon have been producing since 2022.
By Christopher Walsh
 | The Trump administration imposed and then quickly reversed a stop-work order on the Empire Wind 1 offshore wind farm, meaning construction of the 816-megawatt installation in the New York Bight can resume. By Christopher Walsh |
 | East Hampton Village accepted a SaveStation — a public-access automatic external defibrillator — on Tuesday afternoon, following donations from the Tintle family to the Louis J. Acompora Memorial Foundation. The station is now hanging at the Reutershan parking lot restrooms, next to the softball field at Herrick Park. By Christopher Gangemi |
 | The New York State Council on the Arts has awarded LTV, East Hampton Town's public access television provider, $99,000 to support a capital project that focuses on roof repair for its Wainscott studios. By Christopher Walsh |
 | On Saturday, Dr. Edwin Keeshan led Montauk’s inaugural Walk With a Doc, part of a national initiative to help people become more physically active while spending time in nature, building friendships, and learning a thing or two about wellness. By Christopher Walsh |
The East End Classic invitational track meet, which was held under mostly sunny skies at East Hampton High School Saturday, has certainly grown: There were 853 athletes this time around from 28 schools.
By Jack Graves
 | To say that the entire town turned out for John Ryan Sr.’s surprise 90th birthday party at the St. Luke’s parish hall Saturday may be a bit of an exaggeration. Say half the town then. You could be forgiven for gate-crashing a party to honor Big John Ryan, the guru of lifeguarding here. By Jack Graves |
 | While this spring’s buoyant East Hampton flag football team went winless, its head coach, Erin Gillott, and her assistant, Josh Brussell, were impressed by their players’ grit, and also by the fact — as was evident to anyone who saw them play — that the girls were having fun. By Jack Graves |
 | Built nearly 25 years ago in Arichat, a small village on Isle Madame off Cape Breton Island in eastern Nova Scotia, the Rock Water is a stout craft and has served me well over the years. But my luck finally ran out last year, and she needed a string of repairs. By Jon M. Diat |
 | This prizewinning barnyard-themed float was part of East Hampton’s Fourth of July parade in 1915, adorned with hay, vegetation, live geese, a calf, and a scarecrow. Riding atop it were Judy Hamlin (1909-1991), dressed as a farmer, and her older sister, Dorothy Hamlin (1890-1919), costumed as a milkmaid. By Megan Bardis |
 | Lindsay Hill’s strangely riveting new novel, “Tidal Lock,” explores a sense of place as psycho-emotional landscape. By Evan Harris |
