Villages

How to say goodbye to a family house that has seen almost eight decades’ worth of life and love? Some might spend this melancholy time wandering through empty rooms, lost in thoughts. Ellie Duke had another idea, inviting the world to Tough Porch, her brainchild of a weekend held as a last hurrah at her family’s grand old summer “cottage” on Georgica Beach.

Important poultry notes from 1898, and more ripped from the pages of Ye Olde Star.

The beloved firefly, or lightning bug, has suffered steep declines in recent years. The three biggest threats to lightning bugs, listed on firefly.org, are habitat loss, landscape lighting, and pesticide use. In New York State there are about 15 species of fireflies that are commonly observed, but on Long Island, we now see only five.

This page is from the newly digitized Village of East Hampton Board of Trustees meeting minutes for March 17, 1925. During the meeting, the board resolved to lobby against the Montauk Steamboat Company’s schedule reduction.

Despite the constant threat of rain and some brief sprinkles, the United States Drought Monitor confirmed last week that “moderate drought” has hit the South Fork, a step up in classification from “abnormally dry.” The next step is “severe drought.”

Following an inspection, the New York State Department of Transportation and the Long Island Rail Road have closed the bridge at Cranberry Hole Road in Amagansett due to structural problems. It is the second closure of the bridge in less than two months.

Be alert: Portuguese man-o-wars sport a transparent float that looks like a clear dumpling or empanada, below which dangle long stinging tentacles that can grow anywhere from 30 to 100 feet long. "If they're on the beach, then they're in the water," said the town's chief lifeguard, who guessed that the creatures came in with strong south swells associated with storms passing off the Island earlier in the week.

A bike path lament in 1898 and neighborhood trouble for the record exec Tommy Mottola in 1998, plus more from The Star of yore.

The South Fork Wind farm, New York State’s first offshore wind farm and the first utility-scale offshore project in the United States, has passed a milestone with installation of the first monopile foundation at the wind farm’s site, around 35 miles off Montauk Point.

In the Springs house of John and Alice Tepper Marlin some 500 boxes of documents — the personal archive of his mother — bring to life the crushing, cruel realities of World War II and of living under a hostile occupying force.

Do IV vitamin drips really boost your immune system and improve your looks? Our writer went to the NutriDrip IV Lounge at Gurney’s to find out, and her report gives the skinny on this wellness craze.

This needlework sampler was stitched by Lucretia Fithian (1765-1815), probably between 1770 and 1780. Lucretia was one of nine children born to Capt. David Fithian (1723-1805) and Esther Conkling Fithian (1728-1800).