Aug. 9 Main Newsletter

Autopsy ‘Did Not Show Evidence of Violence’

August 09, 2025

August 9, 2025

Today: Sunny, high 75, winds northeast at 5 to 8 miles per hour. Tonight: Clear, low 64. Tomorrow: Sunny, high 79, light winds. Sunset tonight: 7:54. Sunrise tomorrow: 5:53. Three Mile Harbor tides today: Low, 10:53 a.m.; high, 4:43 p.m.

A woman found dead early Tuesday aboard a boat at the Montauk Yacht Club was identified as Martha Nolan-O’Slatarra, 33, a Manhattan-based entrepreneur and marketing consultant originally from County Carlow, Ireland.

By Bettina Neel

A few hundred lucky subscribers to SiriusXM satellite radio will be treated to a concert by Metallica, one of the biggest bands in the world, when the broadcaster holds its annual concert at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett on Aug. 28.

Justice allows surveyors to enter the Maidstone Gun Club, while the club’s president says it’s “in good shape to open.”

By Christopher Walsh

Alexander Svarre, a rising senior at Manhattan’s Dwight School, has been spending his last summer before graduation as an intern for the East Hampton Village mayor’s office documenting the memorial plaques under 492 trees located throughout the village.

By Bettina Neel

A 23-year-old accused of driving her Nissan Rogue onto the Montauk Green in the early hours of June 29 and knocking down the tents at a Montauk Artists Association Art Show, was back in East Hampton Town Justice Court on July 30.

By Bettina Neel

Blade Air Mobility, a name that became synonymous with many South and North Fork residents’ frustration over helicopter traffic and its attendant noise, has announced the sale of its passenger division to Joby Aviation, an EV aircraft manufacturer.

By Christopher Walsh

Gov. Kathy Hochul pledged on Monday to respond in kind to Texas Republicans’ move to redraw that state’s congressional districts to further advantage their party in the 2026 midterm elections.

By Christopher Walsh

It took 50 years, but the final two lots of a four-lot duneland subdivision, created in 1975 by the Gardiner’s Bay Corporation along Bendigo Road in Amagansett, will soon be developed.

By Christopher Gangemi

Immigrant advocates and the East Hampton Village Board were broadly in agreement that handling code violations vis-a-vis service workers could be streamlined in a way to ease deportation fears.

By Christopher Walsh

Jaine Mehring, a member of East Hampton Town’s Zoning Board of Appeals and the founder of Build.In.Kind/East Hampton, announced the formation of the East Hampton Community Housing Trust to help meet the demand for affordable places to live.

By Christopher Gangemi

Sag Harbor Village Justice Carl Irace was appointed in late June to represent an alleged member of the street gang MS-13 in a death penalty-eligible federal racketeering case that includes charges of murder and conspiracy to murder.

By Bettina Neel

Representative Nick LaLota of New York’s First Congressional District has another potential challenger, Chris Gallant, a veteran, air traffic controller, union leader, and volunteer firefighter.

By Christipher Walsh

The New York State Broadcasters Association has announced its 2025 Hall of Fame inductees. Among the six honorees are Sag Harbor’s own radio legends Bill Evans and Gary Sapiane, both of WLNG 92.1 FM.

Edlin Novogratz

The John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor has put out a call for candidates to run for its board in the Sept. 25 election and budget vote.

By Noa Magasiner

While CNN reports that the federal government’s credit rating with Moody’s Investors Service fell this year, East Hampton Town’s own Aaa rating remained steady.

By Benjamin Shapiro

Seventeen teams, at least two of them including present-day and former East Hampton High School students, went at it over the weekend in Amagansett.

By Jack Graves

“This is one of those rare opportunities when you don’t have to ask taxpayers for money to do the things that improve students’ lives,” the district superintendent said of the newly paid down construction bond.

By Jack Graves

The long-awaited ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Montauk Playhouse aquatic and cultural centers is planned for Friday, Aug. 15, at 2 p.m.


By Julian Koray

Nellie Lawrence Tiffany (1883-1966) read this essay at her East Hampton High graduation. It attests to her scholastic efforts and some concerns that echo those of students today.

By Julia Tyson

Maureen Dowd, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, discusses not only her new book, "Notorious: Portraits of Stars From Hollywood, Culture, Fashion, and Tech," but also the current state of politics and power in America in advance of her appearance at Authors Night at Herrick Park on Saturday.

By Christopher Walsh

Griffin Hurt, Adam Ross’s protagonist in his addictive second novel, drops a bomb right off the bat: “In the fall of 1980, when I was fourteen, a friend of my parents named Naomi Shah fell in love with me. . . .”

By Heidi Neurauter

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