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Gretarsson and McManus Wed Here

Sandy and Mike McManus of East Hampton and Vero Beach, Fla., have announced the marriage of their daughter, Nina Bond, to Armann Gretarsson, a son of Gudfinna and Gretar Leifsson of Melville and Iceland.

Nov 9, 2023
Item of the Week: The Return of the Dock Race

This photo from The Star’s archives dates to Sept. 25, 1975, when the Dock Closing race was first run as part of a series of competitions courtesy of the Montauk bar’s owner, George Watson.

Nov 9, 2023
Long-Quiet East Hampton Chamber of Commerce Reawakens

The East Hampton Chamber of Commerce, a more than 60-year-old organization, is retooling, restaffing, and, after hibernating during the Covid years, is waking up and ready to engage the business community.

Nov 9, 2023
The Montauk Lighthouse Gets Its Lens Back

As the clock turned to 6, there was a flicker, then another and another and then, emanating from the Lighthouse tower, came two rotating beams of light to pierce the night sky with a strength not seen since the 1980s. An antique Fresnel lens, long relegated to the position of prized museum artifact, was back in its rightful place, and with it the familiar sweep of light spinning predictably from sunset to sunrise, visible many miles from shore, had returned.

Nov 9, 2023
The Way It Was for November 9, 2023

The poignancy of little kids taking pride in their 1898 classroom’s new flag and clock. A bronze plaque placed on a boulder in Montauk by the American Women’s Voluntary Services on Armistice Day in 1948. This was The Star of yore.

Nov 9, 2023
Solidarity, Anger, and Heartache at Rally for Israel in East Hampton

Faced with the enormous task of helping people understand how to move forward after the Black Saturday attack by Hamas on Israel on Oct. 7, South Fork clergy offered a diversity of perspective at Sunday's Rally Israel and Peace at Herrick Park in East Hampton.

Nov 8, 2023
A Bird Count for Everyone

November is the month when a dedicated group of citizen scientists begin to count birds as part of Project FeederWatch, a Cornell Lab of Ornithology program now in its 37th year. It’s simple. Go to feederwatch.org, pay $18, learn how to report your birds, get some swag that will help you make proper identifications, and you’re on the team.

Nov 2, 2023
A Georgica Pond Leadership Shakeup

Leadership changes are coming to the Friends of Georgica Pond Foundation, an organization established in 2015 to remediate the pond’s degraded water quality and preserve its ecosystem.

Nov 2, 2023
East End for Ceasefire Forms to Advocate Peace

East End for Ceasefire, an activist group, has formed to call for an end to hostilities in Israel and Gaza. The group gathered on Oct. 21 and again on Sunday at Long Wharf in Sag Harbor and plans to continue doing so on Sundays at 3 p.m.

Nov 2, 2023
Item of the Week: Mary Fulford at Main Beach

Mary Fulford (1884-1975), who helped raise the Talmage family children in Springs, sits on the sand at East Hampton’s Main Beach in this 1957 photograph from the Springs Historical Society collection.

Nov 2, 2023
The Way It Was for November 2, 2023

From an 1898 “must vote for Scudder” push to the Election Day “backlash” of 1998, here are tales of campaigns past.

Nov 2, 2023
At This East Hampton House, It's Halloween All Year

They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky — but this isn't the Addams family we're talking about. They're the Social Skellies, a front-yard installation on Route 114 in East Hampton that started as a Halloween display in 2020 but has since become a platform for social commentary and parodies of pop-culture phenomena.

Oct 31, 2023
Dr. Samantha Harris Weds Dr. William Murphy

Samantha Harris and William Murphy of St. Louis were married on Sept. 16 at the Country Club in Chestnut Hill, Mass. The bride’s brothers, Jonathan Harris and Dashiell Harris, and the groom’s brother, Andrew Murphy, officiated.

Oct 26, 2023
Item of the Week: Dressed as Chamberlain and the Queen

As Halloween approaches, you’re probably not thinking of dressing up as a European monarch or other foreign potentate, but to members of the Maidstone Club in October 1940, as seen in this photo from The Star’s archive, this was a stellar idea.

Oct 26, 2023
On the Wing: The Slightly Creepy Cormorant

There is something creepy about cormorants. From most distances, they look black, with long thick necks, tails, and wings. In flight, they appear like black crosses. Against a cormorant, fish have no hope; the tip of their orange bill is hook-shaped, a perfect tool to capture over 250 species of fish. Soon those single black crosses will join to form sky-wide, shape-shifting patterns as they migrate away.

Oct 26, 2023
The Way It Was for October 26, 2023

From an 1898 labor shortage in a building boom, to the day 50 years later when a 40-foot gondola was trundled down Main Street, this was East Hampton.

Oct 26, 2023
Village Offers Sweet Relief for Trick-or-Treat

There’s a lot we expect from our local governments, but East Hampton Village may be the only municipality that has a candy assistance program to help residents meet the high cost of handing out candy to trick-or-treaters on Halloween.

Oct 26, 2023
Item of the Week: First Rent Payment to the Montauketts

This receipt, dated Oct. 21, 1703, records the first annual payment by East Hampton settlers to the Montaukett people. The payment amounted to a rental fee for the use of grazing lands on the Montauk peninsula.

Oct 19, 2023
It’s Always a Party at This Downtown Shop

Thirty-three years ago, Theo Landi’s sister-in-law Geri Sanicola said to her, “This town needs a party shop.” Mrs. Landi replied, “You find a spot and maybe we’ll do it.” The Party Shoppe has been helping to make birthday parties and holidays complete ever since.

Oct 19, 2023
Pantigo Mill Dedicated to Village Historian

At a short but sweet East Hampton Village Board work session on Oct. 5, the village dedicated the Pantigo Mill behind the Home, Sweet Home Museum to Hugh King, the village historian.

Oct 19, 2023
Sag Harbor Tries Again on Affordable Housing

With its last effort at creating affordable housing legislation struck down by the New York State Supreme Court in April, the Sag Harbor Village Board introduced a new affordable housing initiative at last week’s board meeting, “just to start the conversation,” said Mayor Tom Gardella.

Oct 19, 2023
The Way It Was for October 19, 2023

One C. Schenck cleans his gutters in 1898, and other public spiritedness from The Star of yesteryear.

Oct 19, 2023
Wainscott Sewing Society Is Stitching Once More

It had been at least 30 years, likely more, since the Wainscott Sewing Society did any actual sewing. That changed earlier this year, when eight members of the group, all with multigenerational ties to the hamlet, took up scissors, needles, and thread once more.

Oct 19, 2023
Celebrating the Paumanok Path by Hiking It

Beginning Saturday and continuing for the next six weekends, the East Hampton Trails Preservation Society will lead hikes that break the length of the town’s portion of the Paumanok Path into roughly eight-mile sections, starting in Wainscott and ending at Montauk Point.

Oct 12, 2023
East Hampton's Anniversary Parade Will Depend on Fair Weather

After months of planning and one postponement due to inclement weather, East Hampton Town will celebrate its 375th anniversary on Saturday, weather permitting.

Oct 12, 2023
Israel-Hamas War Is Felt Acutely Here

As people across the world mourned and prayed for those killed, wounded, and taken hostage in a violent surprise attack by the terrorist group Hamas in Israel on Saturday, Oct. 7, so too did the South Fork’s Jewish community, joined in solidarity by members and leaders of other religious organizations.

Oct 12, 2023
Item of the Week: Tony’s Sport Shop at Halloween, 1976

Children gather to decorate the windows of Tony’s Sport Shop on Newtown Lane leading up to Halloween in 1976 in this photograph from The Star’s archive. Tony Cangiolosi ran the store from 1966 to 1980.

Oct 12, 2023
Mandala Yoga on the Move

After 22 years at Amagansett Square, Mandala Yoga Center for Healing Arts will soon move to Scoville Hall on Meeting House Lane, not far from its existing location. Scoville Hall has served as a satellite space for Mandala’s yoga classes since 2021.

Oct 12, 2023
The Way It Was for October 12, 2023

From the gruesome, watery death of a bootlegger in 1923 to East Hampton’s spirited 350th anniversary celebration parade 75 years later, we offer you a choice tour of past Star reportage.

Oct 12, 2023
To Transform the Wainscott Green

The Wainscott Citizens Advisory Committee was enthusiastic about a proposal to transform Wainscott Green and connect past, present, and future with the creation of a “celebratory memorial” to the Swamp and the Annex, the nightclub and restaurant that stood for many years on the site.

Oct 12, 2023