125 Years Ago 1900
From The East Hampton Star, October 19
A Republican rally will be held in this village on Thursday evening, November 1, when Hon. J.M. Belford and William M. McKinney, the Republican candidate for Senator from the first district, will be here and make addresses in Clinton Hall. Other speakers of prominence are also expected to be present at the meeting. At the present time it has not been decided whether any outdoor demonstration will be made or not.
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At high noon on Tuesday, at the residence of Mrs. George Osborne, a very pleasing wedding took place. The contracting parties were Miss Nettie Havens of this village and Sherman D. Woodhull, of Port Jefferson.
Only the immediate relatives of the bride and groom were present to witness the impressive ceremony, which was performed by the Rev. John D. Stokes under an arch of white and green. The bride was very prettily gowned in white brilliantine trimmed with white satin, lace and white ribbon.
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The weather will be considerably warmer to-day with probable rain to-night or Saturday, and clearing on Sunday. Monday will be clear and cold with perhaps frost on Monday night. Tuesday will be fine, Wednesday and Thursday will be warmer and Friday will bring storm conditions again.
100 Years Ago 1925
From The East Hampton Star, October 16
Last Saturday, East Hampton High School lost to Southampton High School in football by the score of 61-0. The Southampton eleven, who have defeated Jamaica and Hempstead already this year, is one of the best teams on Long Island, if not the best, and proved entirely superior to the local boys in every department of the game.
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The three-day northwest gale of last week proved to be a very expensive one for the hard-working fishermen at Montauk. Once again, Fort Pond harbor proved itself to be a very poor and dangerous harbor for small craft in a heavy storm, without a breakwater. After last year’s August gale, which sent a score of fishing boats high and dry on the shore and costing the fishermen thousands of dollars, an attempt was made to induce the government to build a breakwater to protect the harbor.
Last week-end’s terrific wind storm caused four boats to sink to the bottom of the harbor and drove thirty-five ashore, damaging most of them so that it will cost each owner his season’s catch to place them in repair again.
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The Fourth Annual Dinner of the Long Island Association will be held at the Commodore Hotel, New York City, on Tuesday, November 10, at 6:30 o’clock.
The Sunrise Trail boosters, under the guidance of Sunrise Holly, are planning a very gala night for Long Islanders and their friends. It is expected that 3,500 will attend.
75 Years Ago 1950
From The East Hampton Star, October 19
Forty or fifty members of the “Bonackers,” East Hampton’s crack volunteer Fire Department, left the town courtroom Monday evening in a considerably discouraged frame of mind, after two recipients of tickets issued at a fire Friday evening at the former Appleton place on the dunes had been dismissed, and the case of a third postponed for one month. The firemen, according to Fire Chief Nathan Conklin and others in the Department, have had trouble for years with spectators getting in the way of their firemen trying to do their duty. The firemen would like to have first chance on the parking spaces near the fire. There are State and Village ordinances which should protect them.
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Trevor Kelsall, who is a student at Fredonia State Teachers College, is a member of the Mummers Dramatic Club and is cast for the lead in the fall play.
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The South Fork Community Concert campaign for the 1950-51 concert series came to a successful conclusion on September 30. It is a pleasure to note that many new names have been added to the roster concert subscription list, and the renewals from the previous year were most gratifying.
Following the conclusion of the campaign, an artists meeting was held under the direction of Robert Mabley, campaign representative of the Community Concert Service. It was decided by the artists committee to present a three program series during the coming season.
50 Years Ago 1975
From The East Hampton Star, October 16
The good ship Nissequogue — the County-owned dredge that lumberingly struggles to keep East End channels and waterways open to boat traffic — apparently has survived still another attempt to sink it by eliminating funds for its operation from the County budget.
At a special meeting last week, the County Legislature, assembling as a committee to debate County Executive John V.N. Klein’s proposed budget for 1976, polled ten to six, with two members absent, to restore to the budget $370,000 for the operation of the dredge and the payment of its 26 man crew.
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Montauk
On Saturday, about 20 seventh and eighth grade bicyclers from Montauk Youth were seen heading toward the lighthouse. They were led by Mary Duffy, Jack Perna, Brad Dickinson and Jean Babcock. After lunch at the Point, they returned to the Public School for a soccer game.
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Complaints from owners of small planes who rent tie-down space at the East Hampton Town Airport were heard at Tuesday’s executive session of the Town Board.
The plane owners, whose spokesman was Mario Sireci of Springs, complained that the monthly rental for tie-down space had been raised without prior notice in September from $15 to $23 by the fixed base operator, Montauk Caribbean Airways, Inc.; that Montauk Caribbean was now supplying only 100-octane fuel, which they said was damaging to their engines, thus necessitating costly valve and spark plug conversions; and that Montauk Caribbean charged “the highest price per gallon — 83 cents — on Long Island.”
25 Years Ago 2000
From The East Hampton Star, October 19
With the sun shining on the cliffs of the land overlooking the ocean in Montauk that has come to be known as Shadmoor, a group of East Hampton officials, neighbors, and civic leaders gathered Saturday to celebrate its public acquisition.
Shadmoor, which runs for 2,400 feet along the ocean beach, had been the largest stretch of its kind on Long Island left in private hands.
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Representatives of the Army Corps of Engineers stressed their interest in “nonstructural” approaches to erosion control and storm damage when they stopped by to address the East Hampton Town Board on Tuesday morning.
They came to bring the board up to date on the Fire Island to Montauk Point Reformation Study, whose focus is the inexorable erosion of Long Island’s South Shore beaches and the inevitable 100-year storm.
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In a tense and, at times, heated standoff, members of the East Hampton Town Anti-Bias Task Force faced off against representatives of East Hampton Boy Scout and Cub Scout troops at Town Hall on Tuesday.
Task force members had come to the town board to ask it to support a resolution, passed by a split vote on Oct. 3, to ban the scouts from using town facilities in response to what they said was the national group’s anti-gay policy.
