Montauk News

As The East Hampton Press is distributed this morning, people will already be gathering around the Suzanne Koch Gosman flagpole garden at the Playhouse Community Center for a Veterans Day Memorial ceremony at 10 a.m. It provides a few moments to contemplate those who have served and those who have given their lives in the seemingly unending wars ...

Capt. John Capuano with a pair of nice blackfish taken outside Shinnecock Inlet aboard the Shinnecock Star.

Done up in a breezy spring colorway, Reebok's Miami Vice Ventilator is a fitting prequel to the warmer months.

Police arrested Kenneth Freeman, 64, of East Hampton on October 26 at 10:35 a.m. at Gerard Drive and Old Fireplace Road in Springs and charged him with DWI and aggravated DWI, both misdemeanors.

With the annual passing of the film festival finally delineating the end of the summer madness on the East End, the next season always seems to bring a strange atmospheric lull masking the fact that the art scene continues unabated.

Police stopped Linda Putnoy, 49, of Montauk on Sunday at 12:03 a.m. at Route 27 and Lincoln Road in Montauk and arrested her for DWI, a misdemeanor.

Sitting Democratic Town Justice Catherine Cahill, 55, has been on the bench in East Hampton for 16 years.

Rep. Peter King said Tuesday he had contacted Coast Guard officials and asked them to reconsider their decision to relieve Chief Petty Officer James Weber from command.

On a recent and particularly uninviting Saturday morning, a small group of seven people gathered at 10 a.m. at Napeague Harbor Road to participate in a 3-mile poetry hike in the magnificent walking dunes.

The buyer of disgraced financier Bernie Madoff's four-bedroom beach house in Montauk, N.Y. has been revealed, and it's real-estate mogul Steven Roth, who paid $9.41 million for Madoff's scruffy property.

A Coast Guard 47-foot rescue boat trains about 8 a.m. on Aug. 23, 2009, in the surf off Montauk Point.

People travel the world, which is not a bad thing, just hard and expensive to do with a family .

Legendary photographer Peter Beard has been complaining about the Hamptons for years.

The men are gregarious; they're lively and engaging orators. The women are more subdued; they are soft spoken and serious.

We were feeling quite like a celebrity with our press badge hanging about the neck when the Hamptons International Film Festival came to town.

Police arrested John McHugh, 40, of East Hampton on October 4 at 1:17 a.m. at Main Street and Atlantic Avenue in Amagansett and charged him with aggravated DWI with a prior conviction in 10 years, a misdemeanor.

Epic swindler Bernard Madoff's former beach home off the eastern-most point of New York's Long Island sold for $9.41 million, money that will go toward a fund for defrauded investors, the U.S. Marshals Service said on Friday.

Recently a radio broadcaster raised a few million to keep its organization going.

The world thought Scrubs actor Zach Braff was dead yesterday for a few hours--suicide, they said.

Ah-oooo: Monsters of Honolulu at Chinatown Boardroom this month. Remember the Montauk monster? Therea s still controversy over whether that bald, beaked demon of a corpse that washed ashore near Montauk, N.Y., in July 2008 was a known species or some sort of otherworldly mutant.