A small German shepherd jumped out of the bed of a pickup truck and tackled her goldendoodle in the field next to Sag Harbor’s Havens Beach, leaving the dog “shaking” and apparently afraid to move, a caller told police on Aug. 27.
Craig R. Humphrey, a professor of sociology and a sailor, died at home in East Hampton on July 31. He was 82.
Thomas David Talmage, a former East Hampton Town engineer, died at his house on Long Lane in East Hampton on Aug. 26. He was 65 and had Parkinson’s disease.
Timothy F. Marquand, a part-time Sag Harbor resident and a founder of the Jazz Composers Orchestra Association, died of pneumonia in February at Aspen Valley Hospital in Colorado. He was 83.
Catching up with Sergey Avramenko, the 40-year-old native of Belarus who has dominated 5K road racing hereabouts, as he prepares to start a new life in Florida as a soccer and running coach.
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.
