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Bridgehampton Carving Contest Postponed to Oct. 25

While it’s definitely fun for the little ones, the Bridgehampton Lions Club’s annual Carving Contest is really a family affair, because jack-o’-lanterns as good as these shouldn’t be just for kids.

Oct 21, 2022
Guild Hall’s Spook-Fest Is Field’s Farewell

A nightmare on Sherrill Road: Billy Field, one of the most creative, enthusiastic, scarily talented Halloween decorators, will not be decking out his East Hampton home this Oct. 31 — or ever after. He's selling and moving to North Carolina, but will act as Demon of Décor for Guild Hall's Community Social and Spooky Silent Dance Party on Saturday at LTV studios in Wainscott

Oct 20, 2022
Item of the Week: Goody Garlick: The Play

“Witchcraft in East Hampton: A Short Play” by Virginia H. Page (1926-2021), a page of which is seen here, focuses on East Hampton’s 1657 witchcraft trial, known as the Goody Garlick trial.

Oct 20, 2022
Largest Clam Contest, Take Two

The search for the largest clam in Three Mile Harbor, Hog Creek, and Accabonac Harbor has resumed after heavy rains kept those water bodies closed in advance of the East Hampton Trustees Largest Clam Contest on Oct. 9. Weigh-ins for mammoth specimens from those spots happens Friday at the trustee offices in Amagansett.

Oct 20, 2022
The Way It Was for October 20, 2022

The day in 1922 when Alfred E. Smith came in for some praise, a 1972 effort to organize South Fork farm workers, and more ripped from the pages of The Star.

Oct 20, 2022
A Cliffhanger at the Clam Contest

While there were winners at the East Hampton Town Trustees’ 32nd annual Largest Clam Contest — for clam chowder and for the largest clams harvested from Lake Montauk and Napeague Harbor — the day also ended with a cliffhanger because three of the five water bodies from which clams could be harvested were closed to shellfishing after heavy rains.

Oct 13, 2022
Item of the Week: Green River Cemetery Booklet

This 1998 write-up is from a 2008 booklet from the Springs Historical Society Collection that details the history of many notable residents of Green River Cemetery in Springs.

Oct 13, 2022
L.G.B.T.Q.+ Health Care Survey Shows Big Need

“Probably the most alarming . . . finding was the severity of the mental health needs and experiences of depression, anxiety, and suicide attempts among the L.G.B.T.Q.+ population,” Jennifer Mesiano Higham of Stony Brook University Hospital said of the results of a Stony Brook Medicine survey on the health care experiences and challenges of the L.G.B.T.Q.+ population on Long Island.

Oct 13, 2022
On the Wing: The Fish Crows Are Watching

First light in Sag Harbor during autumn and the place belongs to the fish crows. They show up all at once, 100 landing in the big tree at M&T bank. As the day brightens, they spread out across the village into smaller groups. For a bird whose diet ranges from piping plover eggs to candy bars, Sag Harbor is a perfect foraging ground.

Oct 13, 2022
The Way It Was for October 13, 2022

The day the East Hampton Town Board held “an unmomentous meeting,” and much more from The Star of yore.

Oct 13, 2022
A Big-House Fight on Film

Build.In.Kind/East Hampton and the Wainscott Heritage Project will host a screening of “One Big Home,” a 2016 documentary by Thomas Bena, at LTV Studios in Wainscott on Saturday at 4 p.m.

Oct 6, 2022
Covid Test Site Now Down to Once a Week

Starting this week, East Hampton Town’s Covid-19 testing site at 110 Stephen Hand’s Path in Wainscott, operated by CareONE Concierge, will only be open on Fridays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Oct 6, 2022
Invasive Pest Could Pose Threat to Vineyards

Imagine a world without wine. That’s the devastation that could be wrought by the spotted lanternfly, an invasive insect from Asia that’s reached Ronkonkoma and is headed east, posing a serious threat to vineyards.

Oct 6, 2022
Item of the Week: Bertha Rides a Bovine

This amusing image shows Bertha Edwards Finch of Springs sitting atop a horned bovine with one foot on a stepstool. The photograph is a part of the Springs Historical Society Collection.

Oct 6, 2022
Lucky Encounter for Boater in Distress

Two fishermen chasing Spanish mackerel were in the right place at the right time for Bill Biebel, after a major mechanical failure blew a hole in the hull of the boat he was captaining.

Oct 6, 2022
Modified Clam Contest to Be Held Sunday

The East Hampton Town Trustees’ 32nd annual Largest Clam Contest, set for Sunday, will take place in a modified form after heavy rains over several days prompted the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to close some harbors to shellfishing this week. 

Oct 6, 2022
Sea Floor Work Begins for Offshore Wind Farm

Offshore construction of the South Fork Wind farm commenced this week. Orsted U.S. Offshore Wind, a developer of the project, issued a mariners briefing on seabed preparation for the 12-turbine installation on Sept. 23. Included is the start of the clearing of boulders where the wind farm’s turbine foundations will be situated and along cable routes, which must happen before the laying of the wind farm’s export cable and other connecting cables.

Oct 6, 2022
The Way It Was for October 06, 2022

Bicycle racing goes awry in 1897, and 125 years later the Sag Harbor mayor had to crack down on drunkenness and rowdy behavior.

Oct 6, 2022
Wainscott Residents Fed Up With Gun Club

Residents of Wainscott continued to press for changes at the Maidstone Gun Club this week, including shutting it down, citing numerous instances of bullets hitting houses and the potential for a tragedy.

Oct 6, 2022
Bluetongue Virus Hits Deer Here

Bluetongue, a serious virus, has been detected for the first time in New York State deer. A cousin of epizootic hemorrhagic disease, it is spread by the bite from a midge, or no-see-um, and incubates in a deer for seven days before the animal begins to show symptoms. There is no treatment for the virus, which typically kills an adult deer within 36 hours.

Sep 29, 2022
In Montauk, a Little Nonprofit Can’t Keep Up

The Montauk Village Association faces an uncertain post-Covid future after the old guard nonprofit saw its fund-raising plummet during the pandemic.

Sep 29, 2022
Item of the Week: An Architect Pounds Corn for Samp

John Custis Lawrence (1867-1944), a Montauk-born architect, appears in this photograph participating in Forefathers’ Day, demonstrating how to grind corn to make samp, a mashed cornmeal porridge dish of Indigenous origin.

Sep 29, 2022
The Way It Was for September 29, 2022

From an 1897 crackdown on truancy to the death throes of the Peconic County effort a hundred years later, it happened here.

Sep 29, 2022
Amagansett Neighbors Bemoan ‘Bespoke’ Homes

A development on Handy Lane that has riled neighbors is a familiar story in East Hampton Town and across the South Fork: along with teardowns and rebuilds, spec houses that, with seemingly few exceptions, take allowable lot coverage and floor area to their absolute limit.

Sep 22, 2022
Dangerous Surf Expected

According to swellinfo.com, Friday East End beaches will begin to see the impacts from Hurricane Fiona, which is forecast to be just past Bermuda later this evening. A long period south-southeast swell, with wave heights peaking at nine feet, should keep swimmers on shore.

Sep 22, 2022
Gun Club Bullets Gone Astray

Two residents of Merchants Path in Wainscott told the East Hampton Town Board on Tuesday about multiple instances in which their houses were hit by bullets, for which they blamed the Maidstone Gun Club, about one mile away.

Sep 22, 2022
Item of the Week: An Account of the Amistad Captives

From the library’s Old Whalers Collection comes the story of the Amistad, a ship seized off Montauk carrying enslaved people who revolted against their captors, ultimately regaining their freedom.

Sep 22, 2022
Lee and Schade Wed at Old Whalers

Emily Lagler Schade of East Hampton and McNally Severn Lee of Manhattan were married on Sept. 10 at the Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor.

Sep 22, 2022
On the Wing: Tiny Swallows and Big Gulps

A large group of tree swallows is called a gulp, which proves ornithologists are not without humor. Before the leaves change, gulps of swallows crowd our beaches. At Mecox Inlet, Sagaponack Pond, and the dunes that circle Napeague Harbor, hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of tree swallows collect.

Sep 22, 2022
Raising Oysters, Inspiring Stewards

Working toward the goals of cleaner waters and stable shorelines, the South Fork Sea Farmers engaged students from the Springs School and East Hampton High School to help construct a new oyster reef in Accabonac Harbor this week.

Sep 22, 2022