Author Information

Star staff

Articles by this author:

  • On the Police Logs 5.16.13 (Police)

    Amagansett

    A Stihl chainsaw and a Jaquelyne armchair were taken from a Surf Drive house early last month. To replace the missing items it will cost about $800.

    East Hampton

    Three screens were cut over the winter months in an apparent attempt to gain entry to a Cedar Street house. The owner, Scott Smith, told police on Friday that the house had been unoccupied from January through April. Despite the damage to the screens, valued at $60 each, there was no break-in.

    By: Star staff
  • Ruth Holcomb (Obituaries)

        Ruth Holcomb, a former model and education activist who was active in volunteer work throughout her life, died at Southampton Hospital on April 24. She was 82 and had recently suffered a stroke.

    By: Star staff
  • Libby Lane, 90 (Obituaries)

        Elizabeth M. Lane, a Montauk resident known as Libby, died at her home on Edgemere Lane yesterday. She was 90 years old and had been in declining health.
        A resident of Montauk since she was 6 years old, Ms. Lane was a waitress at the Shagwong restaurant there for many years and a longtime and active member of the Montauk Community Church. She had many friends whom she cherished, and who cherished her, a friend, Beverly Kamensky, said.

    By: Star staff
  • Linda Martin, 51 (Obituaries)

        Linda E. Martin, a childhood resident of East Hampton, died surrounded by family and friends on May 1 in Charlotte, N.C., after a four-month battle with a particularly aggressive form of cancer. She was 51.

    By: Star staff
  • Patrick Masone (Obituaries)

        Patrick Masone was a fighter, said Russell Masone, his son. He fought to regain his health so that he could remain in his house, on North Delphi Road in Montauk, with his son.
        “He really fought hard — that’s the only thing my cousin said to me,” Carol Gemon, Mr. Masone’s niece, said.

    By: Star staff
  • Stella Kremer, 85 (Obituaries)

        Stella Kremer, a retired marriage and family therapist who had lived for many years in Barnes Landing and Elmont, died on May 3 in hospice in Delray Beach, Fla. She was 85 and had been receiving treatment for acute myeloid leukemia.
        For many years, Ms. Kremer, who was known as Dolly, and her husband, Dr. Herman Saling Kremer, had a house on Water’s Edge in Barnes Landing, Springs; it became their full-time home in the 1980s. After her husband died, she sold the house and moved to Huckleberry Lane in East Hampton.

    By: Star staff
  • John E. Schaefer (Obituaries)

        John E. Schaefer, 93, a founding member of the Noyac Golf Club who lived for 50 years in Noyac’s Northampton summer colony, died on April 13 at North Shore Hospital. He had been on kidney dialysis for the past 19 months.
        A native of Blue Point, where he grew up, Mr. Schaefer learned to golf as a caddie at the Rockville Links Club in Rockville Centre. He played throughout his life, past his 90th birthday.

    By: Star staff
  • Government Briefs 5.16.13 (Government)

    East Hampton Town

    Seek Food Truck and Pool Bids

        East Hampton Town is soliciting bids from food truck vendors interested in leasing the exclusive right to sell at Gin Beach in Montauk. Bids must be received by 3 p.m. on Wednesday by the town’s Purchasing Department, which can provide specifications.

        Bids are also being sought for a rehabilitation — by marble dusting — of the pools at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter. They are due by next Thursday.

    By: Star staff
  • Keeping Account 05.16.13 (Business)

    Creative Awards
        The Montauk advertising and design firm blumenfeld + fleming, founded by Jill Fleming and Lynn Blumenfeld, has won four platinum and five gold Hermes Creative Awards.

    By: Star staff
  • Recorded Deeds 05.16.13 (Business)

    AMAGANSETT
    A. Villa Jr. to J. Cooke and B. Warner, 210 Fresh Pond Road, .31 acre, March 28, $625,000.
    T. and D. Goldbergh to D. Lyon and S. Johnson, 77 Hand Lane, .74 acre, March 25, $2,500,000.

    EAST HAMPTON
    C. Myers to S. Spevakow, 17 Miller Lane West, .25 acre, March 25, $950,000.
    S. Singer (by executor) to J. and C. Panico, 5 Close Court, .92 acre, March 21, $725,000.
    Spielberg Properties to 500 MTK HWY L.L.C., 500 Montauk Highway, 1.27 acres (vacant), March 20, $1,650,000.

    By: Star staff