Villages

Cardinals, among our earliest singer each spring, are so familiar you might forget to appreciate them, but a century ago they were rare in New York.

The Maidstone Gun Club, which has been closed since early December by a New York State Supreme Court order as an investigation takes place into errant bullets allegedly reaching nearby houses, has countered a lawsuit seeking its permanent closure with several claims of its own.

When a water line break in East Hampton Village flooded several businesses a month ago, Gubbins Running Ahead, a sporting goods shop on Park Place, lost all of its inventory, including 7,000 pairs of athletic footwear. Last week, Geary Gubbins, who has run the sporting goods shop since 2013, parlayed his business’s misfortune into an act of generosity for a local nonprofit.

A fire last summer in a Noyac rental house, in which two young women died, has led nearby Sag Harbor Village to re-evaluate its own rental laws. “I think this awful tragedy has awakened a lot of people to these rental activities, that go unaddressed and unregulated,” Sag Harbor Mayor James Larocca said when discussing a proposed law that would establish a rental registry.

The day in 1973 when the giant hanger at the New York Ocean Science Laboratory, a Montauk landmark since it was built during World War II, burned to the ground, and more from the pages of The Star.

Ruth Sterling Benjamin (1882-1957), far right in this photo from The Star’s archive, with five local girls at Home, Sweet Home for a John Howard Payne birthday celebration.

Take a trip into the past, Star-style.

This ribboned wedding invitation from the Springs Historical Society collection heralded the marriage of Hiram Miller and Emma Edwards in Springs in 1887.

With a looming northeaster that brought abundant wind and rain this week, the sea-to-shore interconnection of the South Fork Wind farm’s onshore transmission cable with the submarine export cable that will link the wind farm with the electric grid would have to wait.

Robert Chaloner, who was instrumental in establishing Stony Brook Medicine as a trusted partner and provider of high-quality health care on the East End following the Stony Brook and Southampton merger in 2017, has announced he is stepping down as chief administrative officer.

Martha Howard Prentice Strong (1851-1949), a founding member of the Garden Club of East Hampton, made this scrapbook documenting her trip to Arizona from 1936 to 1937.

“Our dream is for people to really move up that economic ladder and be able to provide for their families. In Suffolk County, it takes a lot to meet those standards,” said Lukas Weinstein, a social worker who serves on the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center’s community advisory board and helps in the Teach Me How to Fish program. Through that program, a job fair in the construction trades is planned for Wednesday night.