Main Newsletter Nov. 27

November 27, 2025

November 27, 2025

Today: Mostly sunny, high 45, winds west at 10 to 20 miles per hour. Tonight: Mostly clear, low 31. Tomorrow: Mainly sunny, high 43, winds west at 15 to 25 miles per hour with higher gusts. Sunset tonight: 4:22. Sunrise tomorrow: 6:51.

Amid a squabble about East Hampton Village charging the town building permit fees for the addition of pickleball courts at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter and renovations at the Peach Farm House, at the Town Hall campus, both within village boundaries, comes the discovery that the town has no certificate of occupancy for Town Hall on file with the village.

By Christopher Gangemi

“No one wants to get out of bed, having just climbed in. And it’s a really cold night, and it’s windy, and everything else — but you know that everyone else will be feeling the same, and so you go anyway. Everyone jumps in their cars and drives there, and then you deal with whatever is going on.”

By Bettina Neel

Last week, the Trump administration moved to weaken one of the most popular and successful laws passed in the United States in the last 50 years: the Endangered Species Act of 1973. If successful, the proposed changes could harm some iconic species on the East End, including the piping plover, the eastern tiger salamander, and even the monarch butterfly.

By Christopher Gangemi

The effort to remove trees killed by the southern pine beetle from Napeague and Hither Hills State Parks and other areas in East Hampton Town is underway, with trees being marked now for cutting that is scheduled to begin next month.

By Christopher Walsh

The nascent offshore wind industry has proven its economic benefit — to union workers, businesses comprising every link in the supply chain, all the way down to the delis, gas stations, and restaurants surrounding such projects, a panel of professionals agreed during a round-table discussion last week.

By Christopher Walsh

In 2019, the East Hampton Town Board approved a management plan for the Wainscott Green, where the Swamp nightclub once stood. That was before Hamptons Pride asked it to consider a memorial dance floor, sculptures, and pathways to and from the dance floor that would commemorate its unique place in local history.

By Christopher Gangemi

New York State Assemblyman Tommy John Schiavoni came out firmly against the Nov. 5 federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in Hampton Bays and Westhampton when he spoke at the inaugural East End LIVE, a conversation on issues impacting the East End of Long Island held last Thursday at LTV Studios in Wainscott.

By Christopher Walsh

The East Hampton Village Board heard a pitch for the creation of 10 affordable apartments allocated to village employees, an effort to bridge a large and growing demand and a vanishingly small supply.

By Christopher Walsh

The board of directors of LTV, East Hampton Town’s public access television, has formally appointed Josh Gladstone to the role of executive director, succeeding Michael Clark, who resigned in July. Mr. Gladstone has been the interim director since then.

By Christopher Walsh

The future looked bright at East Hampton High School’s annual Career Cafe as an array of local professionals visited the school cafeteria for a few hours to teach the juniors about their jobs. 

By Alison Morris Roslyn

The biggest issue at all of the community forums on the proposed bond thus far is the Fisher house, a residence on South Dewitt Place donated by a former superintendent, Robert Fisher, and his wife, and intended to house the district superintendent. The prevailing gripe? Plans to use part of the house for district storage. 

By Alison Morris Roslyn

The Springs School Board approved the use of just over $1.5 million from its more than $4 million repair reserve fund for five exterior projects.

By Alison Morris Roslyn

On a gorgeous Saturday earlier this month, six East Hampton Middle School students gathered at the town’s shellfish hatchery on Three Mile Harbor to do some good — gluing eelgrass seeds to clams. It’s the latest project the Do Good Be Good Club has taken on this year.

By Alison Morris Roslyn

A three-day open house beginning on Friday at Marders nursery and gift shop in Bridgehampton will include spectacular decorations, live music, adoptable animals, and a presentation by the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center.

By Star Staff

The annual Lighting of the Lighthouse, involving thousands of lights, happens on Saturday from 4 to 7:30 p.m.

By Christopher Walsh

Zane Karoussos, an East Hampton High School junior, has already committed to the admissions process at Cornell University for lacrosse. “Being there with the coaches and the team, I knew it was the right fit and I committed on the spot."

By Alison Morris Roslyn

When the 2025 International Surf Rescue Challenge gets going in New Zealand this week, a quarter of the United States Lifesaving Association Youth National Team will hail from the South Fork.

By Alison Morris Roslyn

This is the season for basketball, boys bowling, boys swimming, indoor track, and wrestling, and Kathy Masterson, the school district’s athletic director, said there’s a lot to be excited about.

By Alison Morris Roslyn

Back in 1978, when I was 16 years old and a sophomore in high school, I decided to record the fish I caught in a logbook. I figured it would be smart to take note of my landings, for better or worse, for future reference.

By Jon M. Diat

In Heather Aimee O’Neill’s debut novel, three sisters arrive for Thanksgiving at the family home on Peconic Bay, all of their complications in tow.

Reviewed by Rachel Anne Abrams

This 1851 crew list for the customs collector in Sag Harbor identifies the members of Capt. David Smith’s last whaling voyage.

By Julia Tyson

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