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Item of the Week: Pursuing Duryea at the Polls, 1978

In this Star photo by Eileen Bock we see a helicopter grounded below the Montauk Manor on the Montauk Playhouse lawn, as someone from ABC News hoped to catch Perry Duryea Jr. at the polls in his native hamlet.

Nov 7, 2024
Wainscott Committee Honors LTV Studios Director

Michael Clark, the executive director of LTV Studios, was honored with a Recognition Award at a Wainscott Citizens Advisory Committee meeting on Saturday after being invited as a guest speaker.

Nov 7, 2024
Hurricanes and Heartbreak for Former East Hampton Man

"Our lifelong friend Tommy Hupalowsky can use your help right now," Robin Goetz wrote on a GoFundMe fund-raising page last month. Two hurricanes and the loss of his wife have left Mr. Hupalowsky, a former longtime employee of Ben Krupinski Builders, facing difficulty in Englewood, Fla.

Nov 7, 2024
A Wartime Wedding in Ukraine

Friends and family members arrived from near and far — by long trips on planes, trains, and buses — to attend the Sept. 14 wedding of Ethan Bregman and Olha Beskhmelnytsina in Lviv, Ukraine.

Nov 7, 2024
The Way It Was for November 7, 2024

A Prohibition-era rumrunning arrest, the death of an important pet fish, election results from another era, and more in this week's look back at the East Hampton Star archive.

Nov 7, 2024
Shoppe's Party Nearly Over on Park Place

After 34 years in business — all of them on East Hampton's Park Place — the Party Shoppe will close its doors at the end of February when its owner, Theo Landi, retires.

Nov 7, 2024
Faith and Meditation as Balm for Election Fears

On Tuesday evening in Sag Harbor, people were busy casting ballots at the firehouse on Brick Kiln Road. The fire trucks themselves were seen and heard on Main Street during a victory parade for the Pierson-Bridgehampton field hockey team, which had just won the class C county championship game. And a small group of worshipers gathered at Christ Church to pray and meditate together, navigating their Election Day anxieties in the comfort of interfaith spiritual discourse and uplifting music.

Nov 6, 2024
Target to Take Over Bridgehampton Kmart Space

First came news that Bridgehampton's Kmart, the former retail giant's last full-sized location in the continental United States, was closing. On Monday, the now-empty big-box store's future came into clearer focus: Yes, Target is coming to Bridgehampton.

Nov 4, 2024
Sag Harbor Village Workers Pull Down Handmade 'Vote' Art

On Thursday night, a group of fiber artists organized by Erica Huberty, Louise Eastman, and Laurie Lambrecht put up 35 handmade, nonpartisan signs across Sag Harbor Village, all containing a single-word message: "Vote." Village workers promptly took them all down on Friday morning, relegating them to garbage before the artists dug through the trash to save them.

Nov 1, 2024
Ghost Hunters Converge in Bridgehampton

“We are here to talk to the air and hope something talks back,” said James Saccone of Smithtown, the tech manager of the Long Island Paranormal Investigators, while walking through the blacked-out halls of the Nathaniel Rogers House as a group of ghost hunters attempted to bridge the gap between the physical world and what lies beyond. 

Oct 31, 2024
The Great Pumpkin Compost

Instead of tossing those old jack-o'-lanterns in the garbage, the South Fork chapter of ReWild Long Island is asking people to compost their old Halloween pumpkins and gourds, and has partnered with three South Fork farms and gardens to make that easy.

Oct 31, 2024
The Way It Was for October 31, 2024

Pity Tom Banks, his head stove in by a horse hoof. That was 1899. Fifty years later, two pilots were forced to make daring emergency landings, one on Long Beach and another at the Shinnecock Canal. Do read on.

Oct 31, 2024
A Community-Building Block Party for the World Series

East Hampton Village closed off Newtown Lane starting at 5 p.m. on Saturday — three hours before the first pitch of Game 2 — so the community could come together, with Montauk Brewing Company beverages in hand, and watch the Yankees in the World Series. 

Oct 31, 2024
First of Anchor Society’s Winter Shops to Open

B. Vintage, run by Linda Buckley and Cristina Buckley, a Springs mother-daughter team, is set to open tomorrow at 79 Main Street in East Hampton. It is the first business in the Anchor Society’s Winter Shops program, an off-season initiative that aims to fill otherwise empty storefronts.

Oct 31, 2024
Item of the Week: In the Van Scoy-Edwards Cemetery

This haunting photograph shows the gravestone of Mercy Edwards Van Scoy (1732-1782) in the Van Scoy-Edwards Cemetery in Northwest Woods. Self-guided tours are available from the East Hampton Trails Preservation Society.

Oct 31, 2024
Exploring a ‘New Land Ethic’

“What is a new land ethic?” Stephan Van Dam, the president of ChangeHampton, asked rhetorically. The idea, he said, is “to disrupt our relationship with the natural world and overcome and change our attitude towards nature — the idea that we need to dominate nature. We need to disrupt that.” 

Oct 31, 2024
Traffic Study: Leave LaForest Lane as Is

Residents of LaForest Lane, citing traffic and a serious summertime accident involving two e-bikes, urged the East Hampton Village Board last winter to consider turning their two-way road into a one-way street. The board then commissioned a traffic study, the results of which were presented on Friday.

Oct 24, 2024
Deals and Memories on Kmart’s Final Day

Shoppers who came to Bridgehampton from near and far on Sunday to mark the closing of the retail giant’s last full-size store celebrated and mourned, recalling affordable clothing, first jobs, and a different era.

Oct 24, 2024
Item of the Week: Mrs. Carll's Cake, 1910

The namesake for this recipe was likely Mary Hedges Carll (1831-1900), the aunt of the East Hampton Library’s first librarian, Ettie Hedges Pennypacker.

Oct 24, 2024
The Way It Was for October 24, 2024

This week, as Kmart shutters in Bridgehampton, you can read about its grand opening 25 years ago. And much more of interest and semi-interest from our past pages.

Oct 24, 2024
On the Wing: Love, Hate, and House Sparrows

On the East End, we hear a lot about invasive species in the plant world, but the house sparrow was one of the original invasive species. House sparrows are bullies. They fight over dirt baths. They are nonmigratory, colonize habitat, and then profusely breed. When native migratory birds return to nest in the spring, these pugnacious birds force them away. 

Oct 17, 2024
Found a Catch on Plenty of Fish

Margot Pena and Douglas Steigerwald’s recent wedding is proof that true love comes when you least expect it. Married last month at Clearwater Beach in Springs overlooking Gardiner’s Bay, the soulmates found each other late in life.

Oct 17, 2024
Item of the Week: To the Montauk Manor Born

To promote Montauk as a summer resort, Carl Fisher published this booklet with the Montauk Beach Development Corporation, detailing the amenities of the Montauk Manor hotel and the charms of the surroundings.

Oct 17, 2024
Great Give Back Underway in Montauk

This month the Montauk Library has three giant boxes at its front entrance to collect donations for the Montauk Food Pantry, the Retreat, and ARF.

Oct 17, 2024
Considering 'a New Land Ethic'

Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. will moderate a ChangeHampton discussion Sunday on “between property owners and landscape designers, contractors and entrepreneurs” who are using “restorative landscaping, rewilding, and pursuing nature-based solutions to counteract the climate and biodiversity crises.” 

Oct 17, 2024
From Coast Guard Cutter to East Hampton Pulpit

The Rev. Benjamin Shambaugh will be back in the pulpit at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church this week after returning from a 10-day stint as chaplain aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Vigorous as it traveled from Panama to Virginia, part of an effort by the Coast Guard to help personnel reintegrate smoothly at home.

Oct 17, 2024
The Retreat Hires a New Director

As Loretta Davis prepares to leave the Retreat, the domestic violence shelter has announced Cate Carbonaro as her replacement.

Oct 17, 2024
German Helmet Found in Sand Is Now in Amagansett Museum

Tom Piacentine was walking to the beach in Amagansett 40 years ago when he stumbled upon what looked like a ball buried in the sand. Though he didn’t yet know it, what he had found was a seemingly authentic World War II-era German steel helmet.

Oct 17, 2024
The Way It Was for October 17, 2024

The news. It just never stops. Herewith, a peek at what was happening as far back as 1899, courtesy of your friendly neighborhood weekly.

Oct 17, 2024
Exit Aurora Borealis, Enter Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS

If weather forecasts are to be trusted, the next few nights will be clear, making the brightest comet of the year visible due west, shortly after sunset. The comet is in an Oort cloud on an 80,000-year orbit of the sun. 

Oct 15, 2024