The Great Bonac road races drew 122 participants to the Springs Firehouse on Labor Day morning. Erik Engstrom, 27, a county cross-country champion when he was at East Hampton High, won the 10K, and Neil Falkenhan, 41, won the 5K.
At the turn of the millennium, Robert David Lion Gardiner and his estranged niece, Alexandra Creel Goelet, appeared in court in a disagreement over upzoning the family’s privately held Gardiner’s Island. And more of consequence from our past coverage.
It’s the Star mailbag, end-of-season edition.
Homeowners are suing the town over the loss of a view that the town itself was supposed to preserve.
Rhode Island has imposed an extra tax on second homes worth over $1 million, while municipalities on Cape Cod are considering adding a 2-percent transfer tax on property sales above the $2 million mark to fund affordable housing.
A reminder of how wasps like old boats.
More moves, realty-wise.
Tumbleweed Tuesday was the best day of the year, weather-wise. Of course, I am prone to such pronouncements. I can’t help it.
Divorced from reality, sanity, and the actual mechanics of driving, the new car commercials are as depressing as they are slick.
My friends and I never said “the Hamptons” growing up. That label refers to a resort for summer people and weekend warriors, not a place where you go to high school. But is “out east” any better?
