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The antifungal pesticide Broadform, previously banned by the D.E.C., has been found to be effective against beech leaf disease in a far lower dose. Arbortech, a fungicide that is injected rather than sprayed, has also shown some effectiveness with less of an environmental impact.

ChangeHampton will host a Bio-Blitz, a citizen-scientist training initiative at the Community Pollinator Garden and Native Grassland Meadows on the East Hampton Town Hall campus. 

Hamptons Whodunit, the festival that brings mystery and thriller fiction authors as well as true crime experts to East Hampton Village each spring, is expanding from its local origins with the first true crime weekend in Savannah, Ga. 

The lengthy, arduous, but money-saving effort to preserve the old Napeague lifesaving station, still in use at Star Island.

Never before, and never again, will there be such an opportune but fast-fading moment, Sylvia Earle said at Guild Hall, to reverse or slow the trends in biodiversity loss and changes to the atmosphere and oceans.

Lucia (LuLu) Lee and Mack Dowdall were married on Saturday at the Mulford Farm in East Hampton, with Mark Toubin officiating. A reception followed at their house in East Hampton.

Nearly 60 years ago, a halcyon family outing turned into in unforgettable experience when a mysterious glowing craft suddenly appeared overhead, hovering in eerie silence before vanishing over the horizon without a trace, leaving a stunned family convinced they had witnessed something not of this world. 

History runs deep here, and The Star has been there to record it.

This photo from The Star’s archive shows a two-horse-powered threshing machine at the Water Mill farm of Charles E. Halsey in 1897. On Saturday, a panel discussion, “Returning to Our Roots: East Hampton’s New Farms,” comes to the library.

A reliable cellphone signal is no longer a convenience but a necessity, and during summer months residents say it’s nearly impossible to access service in some areas because of increased strain on networks.

Yom Kippur will be observed with services in East Hampton and Sag Harbor beginning on Sunday evening.

From the other Winston Churchill to 1926 astonishment that someone, anyone, overwintered here.

Caitlin Virginia Fasano and Dallas Aden Bennett remembered their July 23 wedding as “the event of the century, full of love and joy and cookies and drinks.”

Just shy of his 85th birthday, Dick Monahan, a lifeguard at Kirk Park in Montauk, will hang up his whistle at the end of this season.

On May 26, 1874, David H. Huntting (1815-1885) gave an address to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the First Presbyterian Church of East Hampton’s Sunday school.

Twenty-five years on, the terrible events of that day remain seared into the memories of those who experienced it, whether up close in Manhattan or more than 100 miles away in East Hampton Town, on what was shaping up to be a perfect late-summer day.

The Jewish High Holy Days begin with the observance of Rosh Hashana Friday evening. Here’s the schedule for the Jewish Center of the Hamptons, Temple Adas Israel, Chabad of the Hamptons, and Gesher | The Bridge Shul.

Father-and-son baseball, dooryard gardens, and 9/11.

Were it not for Sept. 11, 2001, you’d not be reading these words. I’d still be living in the city and might never have become a writer.

What’s the answer to the tick problem on the East End? Mountain lions? Genetically engineered mice? Deer-feeding stations? Deer-killing stations? Insecticides? All solutions were discussed at a talk sponsored by the Perfect Earth Project titled “Ticknology.”

Harold (Herb) Herbert opened Herb’s Market in 1963. It was a grocery store, deli, and butcher shop, and became an unofficial social center of Montauk — a place where both locals and visitors could gather, catch up with one another, share stories, and always feel welcome.

Her painting of Sag Harbor’s Old Whalers Church is dated Sept. 21, 1938, the day the Hurricane of 1938 hit, shearing off the 185-foot steeple.

News of the Pelican tragedy off Montauk from 1951, land preservation and anti-nuke clashes from 1976, and more from our past pages.

In his Peter Matthiessen Center lecture as in his book, “The Elements of Power,” Nicolas Niarchos lays out the steep human cost of mining for the minerals crucial to the batteries that run our high-tech world.

Like it or not, anti-Islamic message in the sky was free speech, says owner of banner-towing company.

Stephen Michael Nadramia and Leigh Ruth Goodstein were married in the bride’s mother’s backyard in East Hampton on July 11.

Helen Harrison, a longtime steward of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, and her husband, the artist Roy Nicholson, plan to leave their house in Sag Harbor, Nicholson’s studio, and his body of work — worth an estimated $5 million — to Stony Brook University, along with a $2 million endowment to maintain them. 

Hillary Clinton, speaking at the closing of Guild Hall’s Thinking Forward lecture series, concluded the evening with a message of hope, though not before telling her audience that “I don’t underestimate both the domestic and foreign efforts to destroy America.” 

“The horses, the sport, the community, the summer day, the shopping — it’s so much fun.” In one sentence, Erica Velasquez summed up the magic of the Hampton Classic, which spurred into action on Sunday in Bridgehampton.

This postcard from the Harvey Ginsberg Postcard Collection shows the residence of Elizabeth Hill Dawson Gallatin, designed by the architect James H. L’Hommedieu for her husband, James Gallatin (1846-1890), a grandson of Albert Gallatin (1761-1849), the treasury secretary under Thomas Jefferson.