Aug. 2 Main Newsletter

Lessons From Napeague Brush Fire

August 02, 2025

August 2, 2025

Today: Sunny, high 78, winds northeast at 5 to 10 miles per hour. Tonight: Clear, low 58. Tomorrow: Sunny, high 79, light winds. Sunset tonight: 8:03. Sunrise tomorrow: 5:47. Three Mile Harbor tides today: Low, 11:01 a.m.; high, 5:45 p.m.

Men in tactical police gear, at least two carrying rifles and at least one masked, converged on an Amagansett house on Monday evening in what the East Hampton Town police chief said was “a criminal investigation conducted by multiple federal law enforcement agencies, and was not solely an immigration case.”

By Bettina Neel

In a surprise announcement on Monday, LTV, which operates East Hampton Town’s public access channel, announced that Michael Clark, its executive director since October 2019, has resigned.

By Star Staff

According to the most recent United States Drought Monitor Map, published on July 24, there is no drought on the East End. Nevertheless, the Suffolk County Water Authority issued a Stage 1 water alert due to "dangerously low levels in water storage tanks."

By Christopher Gangemi

The pace at which Lenny Ackerman moves belies his 86 years. The prominent East End attorney writes a weekly column for The Mountain Messenger, has taken up painting, and has just published his fourth book.

By Christopher Gangemi

For her just-released science-fiction novel, “Black Hole Highway,” Georgia Flight, an East Hampton High School English teacher, drew inspiration from stories like “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” and “Star Wars,” and the work of Kurt Vonnegut — whimsical, fun to read, and not weighed down by extensive passages of “dreary” world-building.

By Bettina Neel

The East Hampton Town Planning Board came close to scheduling a public hearing on an application for the relocation of a 150-foot communications tower at the Springs Firehouse on Fort Pond Boulevard last week. Instead, despite pressure from Elite Towers, the applicant, the board decided one more meeting was necessary.

By Christopher Gangemi

Neighbors of a Beach Hampton couple who live at 183 Marine Boulevard in Amagansett made it known to the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals on July 22 that they would be no happier living near a house 10 feet higher than it is now whether its roof is gabled or flat.

By Christopher Gangemi

Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation at Suffolk Community College in Brentwood last week aimed at making septic system upgrades more affordable, which environmental advocates say is critical to addressing impaired water bodies, including in East Hampton Town.

By Christopher Walsh

Through a window in the second-floor den of a house on Cranberry Hole Road, the undeveloped dunescape of Napeague State Parks comes into view. The house — on the market with Sotheby’s at $3.8 million — was sited deliberately to take in as much of the landscape as possible.

By David E. Rattray

Lee Zeldin, who represented New York’s First Congressional District from 2015 to 2023 and is now the administrator of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, was heckled and admonished by climate activists at the Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach, in a chaotic scene that turned violent.

By Christopher Walsh

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation issued an air quality health advisory on July 26 because of particulate matter descending on the East End from wildfires that are again raging in Canada.

By Christopher Gangemi

Dennis and Barbara D’Andrea have been active as preservationists and community advocates for as long as the collective institutional memory of Wainscott serves.

By Christine Sampson

As temperatures rise in East Hampton Town’s waterways, algal blooms are appearing, growing, and, in at least one case, declining.

Christopher Walsh

Organizacion Latino Americana of Eastern Long Island has launched a scholarship initiative with seven Latino-owned businesses to support “the future of East End Latino youth,” according to the nonprofit.

By Star Staff

The Amagansett Village Improvement Society will tip its collective hat to Joan Tulp on Saturday. “I don’t think I’ve met anyone more committed to their hometown than Joan,” said Victor Gelb, who serves with her as co-president.

By Christopher Walsh

The East Hampton Town and East Hampton Village entries topped the women’s field in last Thursday’s Main Beach invitational lifeguard tournament, while the town’s men’s A team finished third, behind Smith Point and Jones Beach.

By Jack Graves

A coed double-elimination softball tournament played each year in memory of Travis Field, who died at age 20 in a car accident in 2008, is to be contested almost nonstop over the weekend at the Terry King ball field in Amagansett.

By Jack Graves

Ryder Abran, a key figure in the East Hampton Little League’s county-finalist 10-U all-star team’s most recent season, has overcome a disease that can reduce the ball of the hip’s ball-and-socket joint to putty by interrupting blood flow.

By Jack Graves

Thanks to the pitching of Max Kra and a walk-off hit by Alex Schuchard in the bottom of the seventh inning, the East End Ospreys repeated as the Hamptons Adult Hardball league’s champion Sunday in Bridgehampton.

By Jack Graves

At the Jordan’s Run 5K, which starts just off the hill at the foot of Jordan Haerter’s alma mater, Pierson High School, two more recent grads, Justin Gardiner and Penelope Greene, finished first and second on Sunday.

By Jack Graves

Last week, Capt. Rich Jensen, who keeps a charter boat at Orient, did something different. He had an open date and took some friends and family out on the water to catch and release sharks.
By Jon M. Diat

This photograph from the C. Frank Dayton Photo Collection at the East Hampton Library shows the A.O. Jones Hardware Store at 51 Newtown Lane. Owned by Asa O. Jones (1857-1953), it later became East End Hardware and today is A.L.C., a clothing store.

By Andrea Meyer

Colm Toibin will put in an appearance at Fridays at Five at the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton on Aug. 8, reading from his latest novel, “Long Island.”

By Baylis Greene

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