Sept. 06 Main Newsletter

September 06, 2025

September 6, 2025

Today: Partly cloudy with a possible thunderstorm, high 79, winds south-southwest at 10 to 20 miles per hour. Tonight: Cloudy with possible showers late, low 62. Tomorrow: Rain early and cloudy later, high 68, winds west-northwest at 5 to 10 m.p.h. Sunset tonight: 7:12. Sunrise tomorrow: 6:21. Three Mile Harbor tides today: High, 9:30 a.m. and 9:54 p.m.; low, 3:35 p.m.

A lawsuit and a countersuit between the two architects behind R2 Architecture, the venture that designed the East Hampton Town senior citizens center planned on Abraham's Path in Amagansett, have further delayed the long-stalled project and could result in cost increases for the roughly $30 million project.

By Christopher Gangemi

East Hampton Village Mayor Jerry Larsen, who is rumored to be mulling a 2026 run for East Hampton Town supervisor, said last week that he had not “made a final decision” and won’t do so until after the election this November. Supervisor Kathee-Burke Gonzalez, a Democrat, is running unopposed on this year’s ballot. When she wins, however, it will be only for a one-year term because of a change in the state election calendar.

By Christopher Gangemi

Eighteen months after Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that “Today, at long last, we flip the switch and turn on the future,” the Trump administration is systematically switching that future off in favor of the past, in the form of fossil-fuel energy.

By Christopher Walsh

The East Hampton Town Board has negotiated “important provisions” in connection with a lease renewal for the Maidstone Gun Club in Wainscott, which has been closed for almost three years and remains the subject of litigation.

By Christopher Walsh

Last week, four days after 287 members of the Devon Yacht Club met to discuss the club’s long-projected relocation, expansion, and rebuilding, the East Hampton Town Planning Board determined that the ambitious plan will not require a detailed environmental review. The board’s decision came against the backdrop of a yacht club membership in revolt.

By Christopher Gangemi

Complaints about salespeople “attempting to distribute handbills” and “entering private yards and porches” have been appearing in the police logs since June, but the volume of complaints increased in the run-up to Labor Day.

By Bettina Neel

Sag Harbor Village police were called to the American Hotel at around 10 p.m. on Friday, following a report of a group of men “causing a disturbance” in the lobby.

By Bettina Neel

East Hampton Town police were called to the Montauk Airport just after 8 p.m. on Aug. 26, after receiving a report of a plane crash.

By Bettina Neel

It almost looked like a dinner plate, Tim Miller said this week of the oyster his niece, Adelynn O’Shea, found while the family was boating near Three Mile Harbor.

By Christopher Walsh

East Hampton High School students and staff adjusted fairly easily to their first smartphone-free day Tuesday, the principal, Sara Smith, told the school board, with the opening day of the year serving as a sort of test for a policy mandated by the state but long planned by the administration.

By Carissa Katz

“I want to continue to grow the church, and not just grow in numbers, but grow in love and in spiritual wisdom,” said the Rev. Trevon Fergerson, the newest addition to the Calvary Baptist Church family and, at 25, its youngest-ever pastor.

By Tatiana Basch

The East Hampton Aviation Association will hold its sixth Just Plane Fun Day at East Hampton Town Airport on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

By Christopher Walsh

In the 38 horse-and-rider field Sunday at the Hampton Classic Horse Show, 10 entries hit the water jump in Nick Granat’s challenging course. Jessica Mendoza, an English rider on In the Air, went on to win the jump-off.

By Jack Graves

Her Royal Highness Princess Margarita de Bourbon de Parme of the Netherlands was at the Hampton Classic Horse Show on Friday to learn all she could about American forward-style riding in an effort to popularize the hunter-jumper technique in Europe. 

By Christine Sampson

The Great Bonac road races drew 122 participants to the Springs Firehouse on Labor Day morning. Erik Engstrom, 27, a county cross-country champion when he was at East Hampton High, won the 10K, and Neil Falkenhan, 41, won the 5K.

By Jack Graves

Catching up with Sergey Avramenko, the 40-year-old native of Belarus who has dominated 5K road racing hereabouts, as he prepares to start a new life in Florida as a soccer and running coach.

By Jack Graves

As fall approaches, fishing, too, is beginning to change. False albacore should be showing up shortly in and around Montauk, and fluke are pushing out of the bays and have begun their migration to their winter home.

By Jon M. Diat

Buffie Johnson (1912-2006), a popular painter, was never quite accepted into the high-end art scene here, which she called “subtly anti-female.”

By Julia Tyson

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