Villages

This paper's been around so long it was writing about the forward-thinking plan to put numbers on the buildings lining Main Street before the turn of the 20th century. And a lot more ripped from past pages.

Victor D'Amico's Art Barge began as a pilot program of classes sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art at Ashawagh Hall in Springs, seen here.

At more than two dozen popular water recreation spots, environmental groups have teamed up on weekly testing for a bacteria that points to whether it’s wise to swim, paddleboard, or otherwise spend time in the water.

“I’m a Jew. It’s really that simple,” said one woman, when asked why she had joined in a Stand With Israel rally that drew hundreds, including Representative Nick LaLota, to East Hampton over on Sunday.

Dispatches from around the Fourth of July of years gone by included raising a new Liberty Pole in the village in 1949 and, of course, Puff Daddy’s noisy party 50 years later.

Daniel Moors, a Dutch notary and administrator, wrote this letter to Cornelia Molyn Loper Schellinger (1627-1717) regarding the last will and testament of her brother-in-law, Daniel Schellinks (also spelled Schellinger), in 1707.

The six-foot inflated silver sphere that was spotted bobbing offshore at Main Beach on Saturday afternoon was neither a weather balloon nor, apparently, a spy balloon, but arriving as it did during President Biden’s heavily policed fund-raising swing through East Hampton that day, people can be forgiven for some wild speculation.

Jimmy Minardi, a veteran lifeguard on East Hampton Village beaches, has announced the launch of the East Hampton Village Surf Rescue Response Team, a new nonprofit organization that will bring in even more helping hands when swimmers are in danger.

Summer is perhaps the worst time of year to bird. You’re birding but you’re not really birding. Leave your binoculars at home. Leave your iPhone and Merlin app in the car. This is not for that. Instead, stroll through the cemetery, grow thoughtful, and let the birds, many of which will live only a few years, be your soundtrack.

The strike at the East Hampton Stop and Shop has concluded, following a tentative agreement reached Tuesday evening between the supermarket chain and United Food and Commercial Workers Local 342. 

Supporters of Israel will hold a rally in Herrick Park on Sunday, beginning at 2 p.m. with a march from Hook Mill to the park, where several speakers will address the crowd on behalf of the many hostages, including Americans, still being held by Hamas following the Oct. 7 attacks.

When the news broke of “the geopolitical event of the century,” an East Hampton doctor, George Dempsey, and his wife, Lauren Dempsey, felt compelled to help. A few weeks ago, the Dempseys returned from their second humanitarian trip to Ukraine. This time, the mission was to deliver 50 ambulances to the Ukrainian frontlines, where the ambulances are now being used in the war effort.

Standing outside the Newtown Lane store on Tuesday late in the morning, striking employees offered fliers to customers entering the store, urging them to reconsider their decision to shop there even at a time when people typically flock to grocery stores to get ready for Fourth of July celebrations.

Fighting Chance of Sag Harbor, in collaboration with the American Cancer Society, has published an updated cancer resource guide that includes details about medical and wellness facilities and practitioners, emergency services “along with a sprinkling of information and practical advice to ease each patient along their journey,” according to a release from the organizations.

Staff Sgt. Harold Chapman was at the helm of a rapidly descending B-17 Flying Fortress. He was not a pilot. In fact, Chappie, as he was known, had just watched the pilot jump from the plane, his parachute failing to open. Hoping to avoid the pilot’s fate, Chappie was attempting to land the plane himself, according to his son, Rick Chapman of East Hampton. He was the last man aboard.

A baby whale comes ashore in 1924. And much more from our pages of yore.

This summer, the Fourth falls on a Thursday and skyline spectaculars are being held practically all month long across the South Fork.

This pamphlet was produced in memory of Roy Lee Mabery (1953-1972), a star East Hampton athlete who drowned in a swimming accident shortly before his 19th birthday.

Daniel Rose Marrow of Washington, D.C., and Julia Cuddihy Butz of New York City were married on Saturday in the rose garden at the groom’s family home on Ocean Avenue near East Hampton’s Main Beach.

In the country of Georgia, citizens are standing up to the government in the wake of a new law they feel runs counter to democracy. At the center of the conflict in Georgia is an Amagansett woman, Tsisnami (Sissy) Sakvarlishvili, who has been a leader and organizer of protests for democracy and has even landed in court, facing sanctions for her work.

With the Palm Tree Music Festival set to rock the Shinnecock Indian Nation territory on Saturday, the Suffolk County Police Department released a statement on Friday strongly urging drivers to avoid Montauk Highway and County Road 39 in the vicinity of Shinnecock and the Stony Brook Southampton college campus while the festival is taking place.

Death on bicycle, death by telephone pole, death by drowning: Star dispatches from the past take a dark turn this week.

There were no surprises in the East Hampton Village election on Tuesday. Mayor Jerry Larsen, Chris Minardi, the deputy mayor, and Sandra Melendez, another village trustee, all ran unopposed and were re-elected to four-year terms.

This photo from The Star’s archive shows Fire Department Chief John Faulhaber leaping from the Susan Jane after searching it for two teenagers.

Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. announced in February that he would not be seeking re-election in November after nearly 30 years in state government. For those wondering what his next act would be, the suspense is over: Mr. Thiele has been named executive director of the Friends of the Georgica Pond Foundation.

As of Tuesday afternoon, the American flamingo that first appeared at Georgica Pond on May 31 continued to draw bird lovers to East Hampton. In just the last week, over 100 birders trekked down the beach to view the bird and submit lists to eBird.

Following the establishment of Juneteenth as a federal holiday in 2021, commemorating the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation, education efforts have grown throughout the community. “At the end of the day, this is something that should be taught because this is American history,” said Georgette Grier-Key, executive director of the Eastville Community Historical Society in Sag Harbor.

A corpse, well advanced in its decomposition, mysteriously washed up off Gardiner’s Island in 1899. And more ghastly stories ripped from the pages of Ye Olde Star.

The Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee had a surprise guest Monday night, Natalie Mongan, a junior at East Hampton High School. Ms. Mongan presented her own independent research, done through an A.P. research seminar, showing the level of erosion at Atlantic Avenue Beach that can not only affect shoreline defense, but shift the coastline itself.

This tintype photo from the Fowler family photographs shows young Dorothy Horton seated in front of what is likely the Fowler House in East Hampton.