The East Hampton Star
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The East Hampton Star is a weekly, privately-owned newspaper published each Thursday in East Hampton, New York.
The newspaper was founded by George Burling in 1885 when he literally changed the town's name so that East Hampton was two words. The town previously was one word "Easthampton" similar to neighboring Southampton.
The Boughton family started publishing the paper in 1890 when Edward S. Boughton became publisher. It stayed in the family until 1935 when the Rattray family under Arnold E. Rattray began publishing it. The Rattrays still own the newspaper. Helen S. Rattray is the publisher (since 1980) and David E. Rattray is the editor.
The broad sheet is regularly filled with several pages of letters to the editor because of its policy to publish "every letter to the editor it receives exclusively, with the exception of those sent anonymously, or those judged to be proselytizing, an invasion of privacy, libelous, or obscene."
