Subdivision Proposed at Montauk Airport

An application to subdivide the privately held Montauk Airport on East Lake Drive into four residential lots is making its way through the East Hampton Planning Department and could get an initial airing before the planning board in early July. 

By Christopher Gangemi

East Hampton Officials Rattled by Sanctuary List

A United States Department of Homeland Security webpage published last week to "expose sanctuary jurisdictions" included East Hampton among more than 500 other municipalities, Suffolk County among them. It caught local officials off guard and prompted swift response from immigration advocates. It was removed by Monday morning.

By Christopher Gangemi

No Impact Man Now Coaches Execs

Colin Beavan, formerly “No Impact Man,” now an executive coach, is offering a way to direct the great abundance here — of money, of celebrity, of influence — for a better world. He will lead three gatherings aimed at “those ready to step out of the noise and into meaningful, catalytic connection.”

By Christopher Walsh

Sag Harbor Tree Case Nearing Resolution

A Sag Harbor property owner, the first to run afoul last year of a new village law aimed at protecting trees of a certain diameter, had her case back in Sag Harbor Village Justice Court on Tuesday, and this time progress was made toward a resolution of the case. 

By Denis Hartnett

C.C.O.M. Loves Its Student Filmmakers

A young filmmaker program sponsored by Concerned Citizens of Montauk introduces middle-school students to a wide range of the nonprofit's environmental projects, integrating science, technology, engineering, arts, and math, and culminating in a film about what they’ve learned. 

By Denis Hartnett

East Hampton Girls Place Third in County Meet

Coach Yani Cuesta said the East Hampton High girls team’s third-place finish at the 140-team county AAA track meet on May 30, with 90 points, was the best that she could remember.

By Jack Graves

Wood Brothers Hailed After Hall of Fame Induction

About 200 well-wishers turned out at the Clubhouse in Wainscott last week to celebrate Howard and Kenny Wood’s induction into the Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame the night before.

By Jack Graves

On the Water: Oysters Aplenty

I relocated the cages of my juvenile oysters to my next-door neighbor’s dock here on the east side of North Haven, where the current runs swift. Oysters grow fast and plump in strong tidal flow.

By Jon M. Diat

A New Way to Welcome Visitors at Madoo

“All gardens are a form of autobiography,” said the late, great Bob Dash, who began ‘writing’ his own into the soil of Sagaponack in 1967 — a story those at the Madoo Conservancy have continued in the dozen years since Dash’s death and the four decades the public has been welcomed into his two-acre botanical sanctuary.

By Gianna Volpe

Historic Homes and Art Studios on View

A new exhibition at the Clinton Academy illuminates the seven South Fork historic artists homes and studios so designated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

By Bettina Neel

Item of the Week: The Old Amagansett Train Station

This photo from The Star’s archive shows the gambrel-roofed Amagansett station built in 1911, in use until the early 1960s, and famously the departure point of the 1942 Nazi saboteurs.

By Julia Tyson

The Spud Has Its Day in the Sun

"I Say Potato," a new show at the Bridgehampton Museum, takes a deep dive into the history and cultural manifestations of the tuber, including artworks, ephemera, and farming implements.

By Mark Segal

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