Who Pulled The Plug?
East Hampton Town Trustees are offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the capture of the person or persons who opened Georgica Pond to the sea sometime Monday night, turning its chief public access off Route 27 into a sea of mud.

Forecast Traffic Chaos
Frank Wexler called The Star yesterday to ask whether he would be able to get to his house in Amagansett tomorrow night from Manhattan.

A Wish List For The Future
For years people have gone walking in the seemingly endless dunes rolling east from Shipwreck Drive on Napeague to Napeague State Park. The moonlike landscape is crisscrossed with trails that pass pine trees, run through deep sand basins, traverse hills gleaming with beach grass, and occasionally cut through to the ocean beach.

Manatee Off Montauk
Montauk got its first known visit from a manatee over the weekend, delighting people at the Diamond Cove Marina and the Montauk Yacht Club in Montauk Harbor on Sunday afternoon after nearly scaring the life out of a spearfisherman on the oceanside the day before.