125 Years Ago - 1897
From The East Hampton Star, June 11
An adjourned meeting of Clinton Cycle club will be held at the Star office on Monday evening next at 7:30 sharp. Every member and all who wish to become members are requested to be present.
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Star Advertisers
Weather Signals — O.H. Northrop.
The advertisement of the Bee Hive is buzzing with bargains.
Tall men are wanted. See ad. of Wolff-American wheel.
Valuable information free in Montauk Bakery ad.
David E. Osborn has had a cooler built in his barn, and has just stored therein a large quantity of Rockland Lake ice, which he offers for sale in an advertisement in this issue.
A good horse for sale. See ad.
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Robert Sewell, the artist, arrived at his cottage at Georgica on Monday. Mr. Sewell will soon begin work on a painting 17 x 22 feet at his East Hampton studio.
100 Years Ago - 1922
From The East Hampton Star, June 9
At the monthly meeting of Edwin C. Halsey Post, No. 700, American Legion, the executive committee was authorized to make plans for a Fourth of July celebration here. The committee met after the meeting, and after considerable discussion it was decided that this year, instead of the members of the post undertaking this big proposition themselves, they would ask the assistance of the several civic organizations in the town. Within a few days the committee expects to call a meeting of the executives of these several organizations and unfold their plans and ask their co-operation.
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Miss Inga Orner, the famous Norwegian soprano of the present day, formerly prima-donna of the Metropolitan Opera Company, New York, and Royal Covent Garden, London, is spending the summer at East Hampton.
During the late war Miss Orner appeared in many concerts, the proceeds of which were for the fatherless children of France.
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The members of the East Hampton Fire Council met in regular session at the fire house and disposed of considerable business, the most important of which, especially to the members of the East Hampton Fire Department, was the setting of a date for the Fireman’s dinner. The dinner will be given at the Three Mile Harbor pavilion on Friday evening, June 16, at 7 o’clock. The firemen do not require any assurance of a good time as Mr. Carson has already made an enviable reputation as a host, because of his splendid service and excellent sea food.
75 Years Ago - 1947
From The East Hampton Star, June 12
The birthday of John Howard Payne, author of “Home, Sweet Home,” was celebrated at his birthplace on Main Street on Monday, June 9, by holding an “open house.” Everyone was invited to visit the homestead, owned by the Village since 1927, without paying the usual fee. Mrs. E. Courtland Mulford assisted Mrs. Ruth Benjamin in receiving a large number of guests.
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An inter-class track meet was held after school last Friday afternoon at the school playground, with all high school classes participating.
The Junior Class won with 58 points. Coach Kiernan thinks the Junior class did well in having won places in all the contests. Coach plans to make the track meet an annual affair, but hopes more boys will show class spirit and compete.
In comparison with the last track meet on record in East Hampton High, the scores show that our boys beat their predecessors in the pole vault, high jump, discus, 440-yd. dash, 220-yd. dash, mile run and the half-mile.
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The Guild Hall Players presented the Broadway success “Dear Ruth” by Norman Krasna, last Friday and Saturday nights in the John Drew Theater, as their final offering until next fall. Enez Whipple directed the show, which met with the unqualified approval of the audience. The choice of a play was good — light and humorous. The players threw themselves into it. It would be very hard to say who gave the most spirited performance.
50 Years Ago - 1972
From The East Hampton Star, June 8
“Acoustical waves organized well are music; if they’re not, it’s noise,” said Norman Pickering, answering a question about the relationship between his two loves — music and engineering (vibration detection).
In a recent interview at his North Haven home, Mr. Pickering said that as a young man he was torn between becoming a musician or an engineer. He took a degree in engineering at Newark College of Engineering and then won a fellowship to study conducting, French horn and violin at Juilliard, and while he is undoubtedly better known as an engineer-inventor, his love for music seems hardly to have been compromised.
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Barbara Borsack, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Borsack of Talmage Lane, East Hampton, was graduated from the State University College at Oswego, N.Y., on June 3, with a bachelor of science degree in education. In September she will join the teaching staff of Scituate, Mass., Junior High School, as a seventh grade mathematics teacher.
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Sixty-five boats were blessed Sunday at the annual Blessing of the Fleet by Bishop John R. McGann, who was on the Town Dock at Lake Montauk. An estimated 1,500 persons were watching.
Included in the maritime parade, led by Coastguardsmen, were Knights of Columbus, Air Force men, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Legionnaires, and Town Police.
A wreath in memory of Captain Sonny Smith was placed upon the waters. A barbecue followed at St. Therese School, with baskets of liquor won by John Lycke and John Behan and 385 meals served.
25 Years Ago - 1997
From The East Hampton Star, June 12
Beach lovers who don’t happen to live in East Hampton Village — but who were looking forward to lazy summer weekends at its Main Beach — are in for a shock.
In the second move in as many months aimed at bringing parking problems under control, the East Hampton Village Board decided last Thursday that daily paid parking at Main Beach on weekends and holidays — a longtime option for non-village residents — is no more.
Only village residents with a beach sticker, or non-village residents willing to pay an annual $150 permit fee, will be allowed to park cars there at peak times this summer.
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The secret settlement of Jerry Della Femina’s civil rights lawsuits against East Hampton Village has ended up costing taxpayers $42,500. This figure was revealed in documents obtained Monday by The Star under the State Freedom of Information Law.
The money, paid to the National Casualty Company, one of the village’s insurance carriers, includes a $10,000 deductible. The remainder is the village’s share of the final settlement.
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With summer traffic increasing by 8 percent every year and roads that are already pushing capacity, East Hampton Town must encourage the use of alternative modes of transportation. That is the crux of the long-awaited transportation update to the Town Comprehensive Plan, which was unveiled to the Town Board on Friday.
The study, commissioned in 1995, is the first update of the transportation section of a Comprehensive Plan in 31 years. The study notes that traffic on Montauk Highway had doubled between 1966 in 1982 and had tripled between 1982 and today.
