East Hampton Town and the Maidstone Gun Club in Wainscott, which has been shuttered since August 2022, may be close to renewing a lease for the 97-acre property despite litigation brought by several residents who say that errant bullets fired from the private club have hit their houses, posing a threat to their very lives.
When Superstorm Sandy roared across the South Fork the distinctive weathervane atop the Amagansett School — in the shape of a sailboat with sea gulls flying fore and aft — was one small casualty. Bob Linker of the Irony has not only restored the weathervane, but made sure it will work properly for the first time.
Has a shocking crime that took place in East Hampton Village in 1955 finally been solved? Mayor Jerry Larsen believes it has, and he isn’t alone.
A massive die-off of honeybees this winter marks “the first time in history that professionals lost more bees than hobbyists,” one beekeeper said. Bee experts are working to identify the cause of unprecedented losses that will be the biggest to hit honeybee colonies in U.S. history.
