easthamptonstar.com —  4+ day ago

...For the first time in over three years, Sag Harbor Village police assisted the State Police Department's commercial vehicle enforcement unit with... ...On May 16 between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m., Sag Harbor officers directed trucks and vans to Havens Beach, where the two agencies checked for compliance... ...“They"re a great unit that's available to everyone on the East End,” Chief Austin J. McGuire said of the state enforcement unit....

easthamptonstar.com —  3+ day ago

...Friday, dispatchers got the call about a structure fire at 435 East Lake Drive, currently home to the restaurant Maison Close Montauk, previously... ..."When our first responders arrived, the building was fully engulfed," said Eddie Ecker, a captain and public information officer for the Montauk ... ...East Hampton Fire Department responders headed east to back-up the Montauk department, and the Springs Fire Department stood by at East Hampton.... ...Esperian described a scene of locals watching the fire burn from the Montauk Yacht Club, across Lake Montauk from the restaurant....

easthamptonstar.com —  4+ day ago

...July 25, 1932 - May 3, 2023 John William McGrath of East Hampton and Manhattan, an attorney who was active in politics, died on May 3 in New York... ...Nelson Rockefeller of New York in two of his presidential campaigns and was active in campaigns including State Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz"s... ...McGrath was a member of the Devon Yacht Club in Amagansett, the Piping Rock Club in Matinecock Village in Nassau County, the University Club in Manhattan... ...He attended the Canterbury School in New Milford, Conn., before earning a bachelor"s degree from Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., in 1954...

easthamptonstar.com —  3+ day ago

...April 11, 1940 - May 10, 2023 Gary Lidell Bowen, a television director and longtime member of the Directors Guild of America, died on May 10 in Malibu... ...An active tennis player at Sportime in Amagansett and at the Malibu Racquet Club, he and his wife led a “festive life full of hard work, laughter... ...Rona Jaffe, Joe Heller, and another of Gary"s tennis partners, Alan Seligson,” said the family.... ...“Gary was an avid reader and particularly liked” the columns in The East Hampton Star by his doubles partner, Jack Graves, they said....

easthamptonstar.com —  4+ day ago

...“The Fight of His Life”Chris Whipple Scribner, $30 In his latest exploration of how Washington works, the former TV documentarian Chris Whipple forsakes... ...It worked for "The Gatekeepers," about White House chiefs of staff, and for "The Spymasters," about directors of the C.I.A. ... ...Christopher Liddell, deputy chief of staff for policy coordination, was a Trump voter but no MAGA cultist.... ...Biden, most importantly, and Veep Kamala Harris, though refusing to discuss her history of staff morale woes)....

easthamptonstar.com —  4+ day, 30+ min ago

...consider my “patch,” bound by Elizabeth Morton Wildlife Refuge and Mecox Inlet to the west, and Havens Beach and Sagaponack Pond to the east.... ...For the last five years, I have birded Global Big Day with my eldest daughter and friends Bruce Horwith and Evan Schumann, in a rough rectangle I...

easthamptonstar.com —  4+ day ago

...In a well-known 2002 study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the brainwave activity of Tibetan monks was measured as they meditated on compassion... ...The Center for Compassionate Leadership, founded by Laura Berland and Evan Harrel of Montauk, taps into this notion with programs exploring “the... ...After a long career with traditional companies and startups in the tech and media worlds, “I started the Center for Compassionate Leadership from...

easthamptonstar.com —  4+ day ago

..., built in 1844, Daniel Bennett, a 14th-generation Bonacker, and an owner of the store, pointed out a fireplace, long hidden by a coffee counter.... ..."A much bigger project than I originally thought," owner acknowledges Walking through the shuttered interior of the beloved Springs General Store... ...The three are also partners in Doubles, which opened last July in Amagansett Square, and the brothers own two restaurants in New York City: Mimi... ...The general store is in the Springs Historic District, on Old Stone Highway, partway between the school and Ashawagh Hall and the church, and just...

easthamptonstar.com —  4+ day ago

...by the New York State Department of Conservation,” county residents can opt out through a “no-spray” registry.... ...On May 1, as part of its mosquito control program, the Suffolk County Department of Public Works began to spray biological and chemical pesticides... ...That registration can be made with the county"s Office of Emergency Management, at 631-852-4900 Monday to Friday between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., or at... ...Weekly aerial applications for mosquito larvae are set for over 100 tidal marsh and wetland areas, some in the Town of East Hampton....

easthamptonstar.com —  4+ day ago

...Following a reception at 5 p.m., Christopher Gobler of Stony Brook University"s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences and the Center for Clean... ...Gobler will be followed by Jade Blennau of the Peconic Estuary Partnership, who will discuss salt marsh resilience and building partnerships.... ...Finally, Bob Tymann of South Fork Sea Farmers, and Nick Cooper and Skye Tanzmann, East Hampton High School students and interns with that group,... ...Molly Graffam of Cornell Cooperative Extension will talk about groundwater nitrogen remediation in the harbor....