APPLE Is Bankrupt
Plagued by revenue shortfalls of $3 million and dogged by the Internal Revenue Service for $900,000 in back taxes, A Program Planned for Life Enrichment was forced to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Federal Court in Westbury on Friday.

Secession March On Albany
Carrying banners, flags, and picket signs, about four dozen Peconic County proponents accelerated their cause from a lobbying effort to civil insurrection on April 29, by slapping New York State with a lawsuit they elatedly served themselves on the State Attorney General's headquarters in Albany and on both houses of the Legislature.

TARBALLS: Was It A U-Boat?
It's possible that the oily tar balls that washed up along East Hampton beaches two weeks ago were caused by a German U-Boat. Coast Guard officials are researching the possibility that a ship sunk 56 years ago, perhaps the British tanker Coimbra, is leaking oil.

Offshore Turf Wars
As states from Maine to New Jersey begin to assume more responsibility for lobster-fishing off their coasts, local lobstermen are scrambling to claim their territory. In the productive grounds off Fishers Island, where for years locals and their Montauk counterparts coexisted peacefully, the Fishers Island lobstermen are attempting to monopolize the turf.

Mystery In Montauk
When two East Hampton Town police officers arrived at 41 East Lake Drive in Montauk Friday morning to serve a bench warrant on its owner, they made two disturbing discoveries. Not only was 34-year-old Stewart B. Wilkinson dead, but a spare room in his house contained a mysterious and potentially hazardous chemical laboratory.

Shadmoor: Plea For War Bunkers
Protesting the destruction of World War II structures as part of the development of Shadmoor, a 98-acre sweep of moorland overlooking the Atlantic, Tom Ruhle, a Montauk resident, addressed the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals last week.