125 Years Ago 1901
From The East Hampton Star, March 22
A free entertainment and lecture will be given in Odd Fellows Hall on Wednesday evening next in the interest of the Modern Woodmen of America, a branch of which order is to be organized here.
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Mortimer Conklin has established quite an extensive duck and chicken business in this village. Success seems to attend his work in this industry. Out of 162 eggs he recently hatched 137 ducks, and from 107 eggs got 94 chickens. He now has on hand about 385 chickens and over 200 young ducks. Between January 1st and March 15th twenty-four of his ducks laid 685 eggs. See Mr. Conklin's announcement in this issue.
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The bicycle path on the east side of Pantigo hill has been about ruined by the driving of horses and wagons over it. In behalf of the army of licensed bicycle riders, the Sidepath Commissioner should enforce the law.
100 Years Ago 1926
From The East Hampton Star, March 19
Two very vague articles in New York dailies this week have announced the sale, to a syndicate, of several hundred acres with frontage on Gardiner's Bay, by the Combs-Robinson Company of Southampton. The reported price paid was $1,300,000. Mr. Robinson of that firm refused to confirm this statement, but said he might have something to say within a week.
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The residents of East Hampton will gladly welcome the news that at last the long dreamed of and needed improvements at the railroad station are about to become a reality. C.W. Wright, master carpenter of the Long Island Railroad Company, was down Monday with plans and specifications, and local contractors are now figuring on the job.
The plans call for installation of an Arcola heater, the remodeling of the east side of the building, making the present baggage room, which was discarded years ago, a storage room and a men's and ladies' waiting room with toilets.
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As an outcome of an enthusiastic meeting of the Lions Club of East Hampton, when a committee was appointed to confer with the Village Board in regard to improving the lighting of Main street and Newtown lane, the clerk of the board has written a letter to the Long Island Lighting Company asking for a conference with their representative, at the next meeting of the board. It is proposed to increase the candle power of the lights, thus rendering a better lighting effect, especially in the business section.
75 Years Ago 1951
From The East Hampton Star, March 22
A public hearing will be held at the Montauk Public school on Thursday, March 29, at 7:30 p.m. on the application of the Commanding General, First Army, for the establishment of a danger zone in connection with antiaircraft artillery firing practice and to govern the use and navigation of such area off the Camp Hero Reservation at Montauk.
All interested parties, particularly navigation interests and officials of any county, city, town or local association whose interests may be affected by the proposed work are invited to be present or to be represented at the Montauk meeting.
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Three more villages have met their quotas, and 12 others are approaching the 100 per cent figure in Suffolk County's 1951 Boy Scout Fund drive, which is nearing the $40,000 mark, according to the Suffolk Boy Scout Council.
The three additional over-the-toppers, which brings the total to 20 villages that have met quotas, are St. James, Brentwood and Cold Spring Hills.
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On Tuesday, March 13, the party boat "Helen" belonging to Capt. George Glas of Sag Harbor was the first party boat down the way at the Maidstone Boat Yard.
The "Helen" is now at Fishangri-La Dock, Montauk, and will be operating as one of the open boats from this dock for the 1951 season.
Capt. Glas and his boat have again been appointed as the Montauk Monitor of the Marine Radio League.
50 Years Ago 1976
From The East Hampton Star, March 18
A fever suffered by the Shelter Island Town dog warden last August, first diagnosed as a virus infection, and then, amid much astonishment and publicity, as malaria, was apparently not malaria after all, but an exceedingly rare blood disease, transmitted only by ticks, called babesiosis.
Babesiosis, like the tick, is a subject about which scientists know little. But victims seem to improve after treatment with a drug, called chloroquine, that is also used against malaria. The Shelter Island victim, Ettore Romagnoli, was treated in the belief that he had malaria.
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The East Hampton Chamber of Commerce, which sought direction through a poll of its membership on the "group renting" provisions of the Town zoning ordinance, has received little, its president indicated this week.
The Chamber's 120 members were asked to check one of the following: "The ordinance should remain in force," "There should be an ordinance to control 'groupers' but the existing one needs changing" and "The ordinance should be repealed."
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The East Hampton Town Trustees were to have discussed in executive session Tuesday night recommendations by the Town Baymen's Association to increase the residency requirements for shellfish permits from 30 to 90 days, and to establish a "nominal" $100 fee for "guest" permits.
The Baymen's proposals apparently were prompted by a generally acknowledged great decline in the clam population here in recent years.
25 Years Ago 2001
From The East Hampton Star, March 22
According to preliminary results of the 2000 census, East Hampton Town's population increased by 22 percent during the last decade.
The last time the national head count was conducted here, East Hampton was reported as having 16,132 residents. This time around, 19,719 people were counted in the door-to-door survey. The 1980 census counted 14,029 people in East Hampton Town; only 10,983 were here in 1970.
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Warning against the "selling of the Hamptons" and urging fellow board members to remain wary of forsaking community interests under pressure from people raising funds and businesses seeking to make a buck on the East End, East Hampton Town Councilwoman Pat Mansir acknowledged there were two sides to the issue at a town board meeting on Tuesday.
The board was debating whether to okay a request from the Crow's Nest restaurant in Montauk for 15 mass-gathering permits to raise tents and hold weddings this spring, summer, and fall, despite the fact that neighbors complained about disruption when it had the same number of special events last year.
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When Elsie Leon attended East Hampton High School just over a decade ago there were fewer than 10 students in her English as a second language class.
Now, as Ms. Leon and other graduates of the program saw at an "E.S.L. Homecoming" on Friday night, there are upwards of 100 young people, mostly native Spanish speakers, learning English at East Hampton High School and even more who went through the E.S.L. program before getting to the high school.
The homecoming, a recognition of these students' growing presence at the school, drew a crowd of several hundred that included former and current students and their families, teachers, and volunteer E.S.L. tutors past and present.
