More than 40 Pierson High School seniors are facing disciplinary action after pulling off a "prank" on Monday night, Sag Harbor School District's chief school administrator confirmed this week.
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The Way It Was for June 16, 2022Jun 16, 2022
Juan T. Trippe of Pan-American Airways takes a 1947 trip on the airline’s giant plane The America, I.F. Stone stumps for George McGovern in 1972, and other tidbits from deep in the Star’s past.
A Southampton Celebration of JuneteenthThe Southampton African American Museum will celebrate Juneteenth with a talk by the writer A'Lelia Bundles about the holiday, her remarkable female ancestors, and the Harlem Renaissance.
Juneteenth Celebrations and RemembrancesThis year, June 19 will be the first time Juneteenth is observed in East Hampton. Now a federal holiday, Juneteenth marks the date in 1865 when the last enslaved people in Texas, the last state of the Confederacy with institutional slavery, were freed. There will be events across the South Fork starting Thursday.
On Water Quality in Lake MontaukConcerned Citizens of Montauk and officials of East Hampton Town’s Natural Resources Department held an “open house” at South Lake Drive in that hamlet on Friday, where they detailed efforts to restore Lake Montauk’s water quality.
Item of the Week: The 1959 Sand ’n’ Surf YearbookIn celebration of East Hampton High School’s graduation, this week’s “Item of the Week” features the 1959 East Hampton High School yearbook, Sand ‘n’ Surf. On June 21, 1959, 60 seniors received their diplomas during graduation ceremonies on the front lawn of the high school.
On the Wing: The Endlessly Interesting Purple MartinAs long ago as 1936, when T. Gilbert Pearson published “Birds of America,” purple martins were almost exclusively dependent on man-made housing. Here on the East End, they arrive in early April to the houses waiting for them and by Labor Day they're gone.
Storm May Be to Blame for Dead SeabirdsIn the last week, dozens of pelagic seabirds that that seldom come to land have washed up on East End beaches either dead or in very poor condition.
The Way It Was for June 9, 2022Jun 9, 2022
From the continuing bicycle craze of 1897 to the secret 1997 settlement of Jerry Della Femina’s civil rights lawsuits against East Hampton Village, it happened here.
L.V.I.S. Fair Comes Early This Year, on Saturday!The East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society Fair will be held on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at its shops and headquarters at 95 Main Street.
Dragonfly Day to Be Celebrated in BridgehamptonSaturday is Dragonfly Day in New York State, and Southampton Town, Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt, and the New York League of Conservation Voters are marking the occasion by sponsoring Dragonfly Day and Green Expo, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the South Fork Natural History Museum and Nature Center in Bridgehampton.
What’s Killing the Beech Trees?A microscopic wormlike creature is rapidly killing American and European beech trees on the East End, and there is not much to be done about it. Beech leaf disease appears to have started in the United States in Ohio sometime before 2012. By 2019, it was on Long Island.