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A Sisterhood App for the Over 40s

Revel, “a community of women fully embracing the next chapter, and creating a fresh approach to our 40s, 50s, and beyond,” according to its website (hellorevel.com), launched Hamptons Revelers last week. It’s a group within the platform specifically for female East Enders of a certain age, to connect and participate in events such as ice skating at the Bucksill Winter Club, or a walk along Gerard Drive.

Feb 3, 2022
East Hampton Town Testing Site Reduces Hours

Because of a significant decline in demand for Covid-19 testing, East Hampton Town’s test site at the former Child Development Center of the Hamptons on Stephen Hand’s Path, operated by CareONE Concierge, has reduced its hours of operation.

Feb 3, 2022
Item of the Week: The ’51: Our Earliest Yearbook

Our new Digital Long Island website gives us better keyword-searching capability, and as part of this we have uploaded all the East Hampton High School yearbooks in the Long Island Collection’s holdings, beginning with The ’51, which is featured here.

Feb 3, 2022
On Call: Answers for a Good Question About Boosters

A reader asked, is a third dose recommended after receiving an mRNA booster vaccine (such as Moderna or Pfizer) following the Johnson and Johnson single dose? Dr. Potter looked into it.

Feb 3, 2022
Tales of How Covid Hit Us

The East Hampton Library has a new video series, “Covid Hamptons: How the Pandemic Reshaped an Iconic Community," documenting current historical events as they unfold. It includes firsthand accounts from people such as police officers, musicians, farmers, and barbers as they talk about the once-in-a-century, one hopes, event that has transformed life in the town and across the globe.

Feb 3, 2022
The Way It Was for February 3, 2022

Back 125 years ago, all the trains were snow-blockaded, in 1947 a sperm whale washed up in Montauk, a rare occurrence, and in 1972 a Grants department store landed in Bridgehampton.

Feb 3, 2022
Big Blizzard Was Burdensome but Not Drastic

The South Fork was spared widespread power outages and flooding over the weekend as Long Island’s first official blizzard since 2018 dropped nearly two feet of drifting snow in some parts of the region. East Hampton Town employed some 50 plow drivers, ranging from its 12 full-time employees to private contractors, who worked almost 24 hours straight starting on Friday night.

Feb 2, 2022
Drawdown Bears Down on Climate Crisis With Help From Locals

“We’re really in a crisis and we don’t have time to wait for others to take action. . . . We need to get as many people engaged in this industry as possible,” said Tela Troge of the Shinnecock Kelp Farmers.

Jan 29, 2022
Scenes From the East End as Winter Storm Raged

East Hampton and Southampton Towns both declared states of emergency in advance of the winter storm that began pounding the East End late Friday night and continued through the day Saturday. A blizzard warning remained in effect for the area until 7 p.m.

Jan 29, 2022
An Old Tradition in the Modern Age

Hunting with guns in East Hampton Town is a tradition that dates back to the middle 1600s. Back then, it was a means of survival. Now, it’s a sport, and a popular one, but also a tool for wildlife management.

Jan 27, 2022
East Hampton’s ‘Glue’ to Be on View

The East Hampton Village Board has approved a lease agreement with the East Hampton Historical Society for the Dominy Shops at 73 North Main Street, effective Feb. 1, 2023. A museum is the goal.

Jan 27, 2022
Item of the Week: The Great Bonac Canoe Race

The Springs Historical Society held the first Great Bonac Canoe Race on Saturday, Aug. 15, 1981, and the item shown here is that year’s map for the race’s route.

Jan 27, 2022
On Call: The Effectiveness of Boosters

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control released data evaluating the effectiveness of a third dose of an mRNA vaccine in preventing Covid-19. There have been clear indications since before third doses, or “booster” doses, were authorized that vaccine-induced immunity wanes over time. This has become particularly relevant as SARS CoV-2 has continued to mutate and multiply, allowing for the rise of variants such as Delta and Omicron.

Jan 27, 2022
On the Wing: The One That Got Away

The first and most important thing to know about the purple sandpiper is that it’s not purple. It’s not even close. For the beginner, the best way to see this bird — the only sandpiper we tend to see here in winter months — is to know where it hangs out, because it absolutely doesn’t stand out.

Jan 27, 2022
The Way It Was for January 27

One hundred and twenty-five years ago, the icemen were busy here. Twenty-five years ago, the district’s congressman and a U.S. senator expressed disgust at Brookhaven National Lab contamination.

Jan 27, 2022
In Winter, Cold Can Be a Killer

Winter can often be the deadliest time of the year, but there are ways to protect yourself and your home from cold-related accidents.

Jan 20, 2022
Item of the Week: The Optimism of Capt. Jared Wade

One hundred and sixty-eight years ago, on Jan. 21, 1854, Capt. Jared Wade Jr. (1811-1889) wrote to his wife, Harriett Bushnell Wade (1831-1911), from St. Helena Island. This British island in the South Atlantic served as an important stopping-off port for the whaling and shipping industry.

Jan 20, 2022
On the Wing: The Woods Are Its ‘Web’

The screech owl is about the size of a brick, with big eyes, and ear tufts, but this adorable little owl is an efficient killer. Its howl represents pure death to a variety of critters. Nothing is safe, even other screech owls. It even takes bats on the wing.

Jan 20, 2022
Prayers for, Solidarity With Texas Temple

When a man with a gun took a rabbi and three members of his congregation as hostages at the Beth Israel Congregation in Colleyville, Texas, on Saturday — a situation that the hostages survived, but the gunman did not — ripples of resolve ran through Jewish houses of worship here.

Jan 20, 2022
The Latest Covid Surge May Have Crested

While the pandemic’s trajectory remains uncertain, the Omicron variant’s tendency to cause milder sickness, combined with the sheer number of those with a degree of protection through prior infection or vaccination, signal a period of transition for the virus that has upended life for the past two years.

Jan 20, 2022
The Way It Was for January 20

From memories of whalemen to postwar bouts of card playing.

Jan 20, 2022
A Jewel on the Village Oceanfront

Within a year after a 1978 fire that burned the Sea Spray Inn in East Hampton to the ground, village residents voted to buy the 16-acre property and to add the land and its 10 cottages to the village’s roster of parks and recreational sites. In recent weeks, there's been talk of changes at property, including whether it would be advantageous to turn their management over to a private company, which would then be responsible for their upkeep.

Jan 13, 2022
Hopeful Signs Despite Record Virus Numbers

The Omicron variant of Covid-19 continues to surge through Suffolk County, but there may be signs of a coming decline in cases, which reached an all time high last week.

Jan 13, 2022
Item of the Week: Charles Parsons, the Edison of Springs

This photograph from the C. Frank Dayton Photograph Collection shows the exterior of the blacksmith shop of Charles Silas Parsons (1858-1926) before its relocation and restoration.

Jan 13, 2022
On Call: Not Your Fault or Your Failure

More and more people are visiting health professionals to discuss anxiety and depression, and what's striking is not the new onset of these symptoms and conditions or the severity with which they are presenting but instead that so many people are almost apologetic when they bring up these concerns.

Jan 13, 2022
On the Wing: Superhero Ducks ‘Fly’ Underwater

Why isn’t the long-tailed duck more celebrated? It’s crazy looking, gregarious, easily seen, cackles like a stuttering kazoo, hilariously belly-flops when it lands, and hangs out in bad little duck posses. It’s even controversial.

Jan 13, 2022
Out With an Outhouse, the Last in Town

“We’ve been a community center since 1908 and have never had a proper bathroom,” said Hilary Osborn Malecki, president of the Wainscott Sewing Society, which maintains the Wainscott Chapel. The chapel has existed all this time with only an outhouse, but that is about to change.

Jan 13, 2022
The Way It Was for January 13

Deep into The Star’s past . . .

Jan 13, 2022
Item of the Week: A Snowy Presbyterian Church

This photograph, taken by Leonard L. Lester, shows the East Hampton Presbyterian Church covered in a thick blanket of snow. There’s no date, but the photo technology clearly indicates that it was taken after 1920, most likely between 1930 and 1960, when a remodeling was started.

Jan 6, 2022
On Call: As Omicron Marches On

As we enter a new year and come upon the second anniversary of the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, it is time once again to review the most current guidelines for testing, quarantine after exposure, and isolation while infected with Covid-19. This is particularly necessary as the Centers for Disease Control recently updated their guidelines to reflect the latest known data about the rising Omicron variant, which has spread at an incredible pace.

Jan 6, 2022