Loretta Davis became the new executive director of The Retreat, East Hampton Town’s shelter for the victims of domestic abuse, last month. She spoke about her background and some of the programming the nonprofit organization offers.

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill announced last week that it has organized Chuck Close Photographs, the first comprehensive survey of the photographic work of the renowned American artist. The exhibit will be on view May 10 through July 26 and will feature some 90 images from 1964 to the present, from early black [...]

  Outdoors SAT FEB 14 Seal Hike, 9 a.m., Montauk Lighthouse Concession Building, 2000 Montauk Highway, Montauk, $4 for adults; $3 for children ages 3 to 18. (631) 668-5000, ext. 200. Richard Fowler Preserve Exploration (SH Village 375th Celebration). 10 to 11:30 a.m., Southampton Trails Preservation Society, meet on Wickapogue Road just east of the [...]

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Audrey Gaines, the former director of youth services for East Hampton Town, has recently been elected to a two-year term as president of the Eastville Community Historical Society.

By Danny Peary It is a fertile time for horror films directed by women. Australian Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook and Iranian Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night have become cult hits and have had long theatrical runs, including at the IFC Center in New York.  Leigh Janiak’s Honeymoon, a creepy body-snatcher [...]

Local chef George Hirsch is celebrating the 20th anniversary of his popular public television program, “Living It Up” with a new WLIW series featuring some of the East End’s brightest culinary artisans.

A lawsuit filed by the Legal Aid Society of Suffolk County charges that many East End justice courts, including Sag Harbor’s, have violated the constitutional rights of indigent defendants by failing to provide them with private places to meet with their attorneys before arraignments.

This spring, not one, but two Sag Harbor condominium projects will be completed and ready to welcome their first tenants. Together, Watchcase, the luxury condominium complex in the former Bulova Watchcase Factory on Division Street, and Harbor’s Edge, a condo development on West Water Street on the site of a former restaurant and night club, will add 78 apartments to the village’s residential stock. While its not a huge number of units in the scheme of things, the development of these two complexes, which will be purchased primarily as summer or weekend homes, says a great deal, not only about the financial security of those who will soon take up residence in Sag Harbor for at least part of the year, but also changing demographics on a national level.

By Claire Walla Lisa Field was manning the register at the back of the Sag Harbor Variety Store one recent Thursday afternoon when an old man, awkwardly holding a small piece of insulated fabric, approached the counter. “Do you have any Velcro?” the man asked skeptically. Without missing a beat, Field reached over to a [...]

Two men were airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital to be treated for burns after the Water Mill house they were working on exploded at approximately 2:15 on Wednesday afternoon.

The last day of school before vacation tends to be an exciting one, as academics take a backseat to fun activities in most classrooms for the last few hours before that week of freedom. That was the case on Friday, February 13, at the Bridgehampton School where students prepared themselves for the chance of a lifetime—the opportunity to shave a teacher’s head.

The Bridgehampton boys basketball team dismantled Smithtown Christian at William Floyd High School on Monday afternoon, riding the hot hand of Charles Manning Jr. to a 77-34 victory and the Suffolk County Class D Championship.

Though the New York Islanders will soon abandon Nassau Coliseum in favor of the Barclays Center in hipster Brooklyn, in the 1970s the team grew to be a hockey powerhouse and the pride of Long Island, culminating with the Islanders first Stanley Cup win in 1979-80. That same year the unsung US Olympic hockey team bested the USSR in a legendary Cold War match up. And in the Long Island suburb of East Northport, a group of boys was paying close attention … and they were inspired.

    by Helen A. Harrison   You might think that we already know all there is to know about Jackson Pollock’s life and work, but you’d be wrong. For example, before Pollock’s 1943 mural arrived at Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles, it had acquired a coating of varnish, as well as a heavy [...]