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The Way It Was for April 20, 2023

Twenty-five years ago, as the Energy Department announced “significant progress” in forming a community advisory council at Brookhaven National Laboratory, an East Hampton activist group demanded closer attention to the radioactive contamination leaking from the lab into the groundwater. And more ripped from The Star of yore.

Apr 20, 2023
Marijuana Use Is Up Among Older Adults

Those coming of age in the 1960s and ‘70s have either arrived at retirement or are about to enter that stage of life soon, comprising a demographic that studies show is both returning to marijuana and trying it for the first time. “It’s the legalization that is piquing people’s curiosity once again,” said David Falkowski, a cannabis expert, grower of industrial hemp, and producer and seller of CBD products. “Old people love weed.”

Apr 20, 2023
Item of the Week: The Hedges Family Cookbook

This handwritten cookbook was owned and compiled by members of the Hedges family, a prominent, active group living on Main Street in East Hampton Village.

Apr 20, 2023
Mystery and Crime Fest a Drop-Dead Success

Hamptons Whodunit, the first-ever crime festival in East Hampton Village, was a big success, according to Carrie Doyle, the village board member who, along with Jackie Dunphy, Mayor Jerry Larsen, and his wife, Lisa Larsen, co-founded the celebration of  mystery and thriller writers and fans.

Apr 20, 2023
Item of the Week: Plum Island Lab Was Almost in Montauk

Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, sent this 1948 letter to Abe Katz, an East Hampton dairy farmer, on the subject of an animal research laboratory planned for Montauk.

Apr 13, 2023
Floating Wetlands Will Return

The Long Island Community Foundation has awarded a $25,000 grant to Concerned Citizens of Montauk to install floating wetlands again in Fort Pond, an effort through which the group has been able to mitigate the harmful blue-green algal blooms that have beset the pond in recent years.

Apr 13, 2023
The Way It Was for April 13, 2023

A stroll down The Star’s memory lane.

Apr 13, 2023
Rat Poison Nixed at Nature Trail

There was nothing new about the presence of rat traps along the East Hampton Village Nature Trail, but they still caused alarm.

Apr 13, 2023
The Way It was for April 6, 2023

The day Patrolman Glen Stonemetz's 1953 Chevrolet sedan got torched in the Newtown Lane parking lot. And much more ripped from the pages of The Star of yore.

Apr 6, 2023
LIPA Rolls Out New Rates

The Long Island Power Authority’s board of trustees voted on March 29 to implement a standard time-of-day rate and optional “super off-peak rate” for residential customers on Long Island and in the Rockaways starting in 2024. Its customers will have the option to remain on a flat rate.

Apr 6, 2023
ARF Hires a New Director

With its executive director, Scott Howe, retiring this month, the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons announced Monday that it has hired Kimberly J. Nichols as its next top administrator.

Apr 6, 2023
Item of the Week: William Cooper at Deep Hollow Ranch

In this photo from The East Hampton Star’s photo archive, William Cooper (b. 1899), owner and proprietor of Deep Hollow Ranch in Montauk, is seen on a hay-covered truck bed next to several calves.

Apr 6, 2023