April 30, 2013
The space industry is playing a high-stakes game of chance that imperils every human being on earth. Just how perilous hit home this week when an unmanned Russian space probe carrying 200 grams of plutonium - the most toxic substance known - malfunctioned and came crashing back to earth.
April 29, 2013
"Bumper Crop; Potato Farmers Moan," proclaimed a recent headline in The New York Times. If crops are bad, farmers moan. If crops are good, farmers moan. Maybe moaning is just a way of life for farmers - at least for potato farmers.
But at last East End farmers are trying new varieties and have, for the most part, abandoned the Katahdin, an "all-purpose" potato that wasn't much good for anything - except maybe fodder for the golden nematode.
April 29, 2013
The South Fork Natural History Society has set its sights on establishing a museum at Montauk Point State Park. A 3,000 to 6,000-square-foot building is envisioned, with a small IMAX-type theater and nature exhibits, including a butterfly garden, and perhaps a room where the blind could study natural scents.
The seven-year-old society has wanted to develop a natural history museum for some time. It had explored the potential of Montauk County Park and the Morton National Wildlife Refuge in Noyac, but agreements couldn't be reached.
April 23, 2013
Intuition could have told us what East Hampton Town's comprehensive open space plan finally put into words last year: We have entered what may well be the "final chapter" in the town's long history of land preservation.
At the rate vacant property is being subdivided and, as it is called, "improved" in East Hampton, "it is reasonable to expect that all major tracts of land will be committed to one particular land use or another within the decade," the plan states.
April 22, 2013
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Thursday and Sunday, 7 p.m.
"The Leading Man" is Jon Bon Jovi, the prettily handsome rock star from New Jersey who, as Robin Grange, a hot American movie idol, is stopping hearts in London, where he is to star in a stage play, "The Hit Man. . . ." The rehearsals are complicated by his heated entrance into an already simmering proscenium.
April 16, 2013
Lane closures likely in pothole repair job expected to last until first week of May
Drivers on Montauk Highway in East Hampton Village will experience delays beginning Wednesday as roadwork gets underway. The New York State Department of Transportation announced Tuesday that a 2.3-mile section of the heavily used road between Stephen Hand's Path and the Route 114-Main Street intersection would be repaired.
Crews are expected to close lanes between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. while the work is ongoing, Eileen W. Peters, a D.O.T. spokeswoman, said in a press release.
Ms. Peters said that work was expected to continue for about three weeks.
April 15, 2013
The art of cooking is besieged by phalanxes of foes that change with the generations. Currently, the arch-enemy is fat: Almost no cookbooks published today omit "low-fat" or "no-fat" somewhere in their titles or subtitles.
April 9, 2013
In an unheated beachfront cottage with a roaring fire, gourmet treats, and hot cider, Gary Ireland asked his neighbors and fellow villagers on Saturday to support his candidacy for Sagaponack Village's first mayor.
Mr. Ireland, a lawyer who works primarily in New York but has an office in Bridgehampton, is running against Bill Tillotson, a full-time Sagaponack resident who owns a nursery and is co-chairman of the Sagaponack Citizens Advisory Committee.
February 23, 2013
A Toyota apparently missed a curve on Red Dirt Road in Amagansett late Friday then flipped, catching fire, and killing an occupant.
Police have not released the name of the occupant of a 2002 Toyota 4Runner who was found dead Friday after firefighters extinguished a blaze in the vehicle.
According to a news release issued early Saturday morning by East Hampton Town police, the Toyota apparently overturned after its driver "failed to negotiate a curve in the roadway" then plowed into the woods along Red Dirt Road in Amagansett and overturned.
October 29, 2012
With the center of Hurricane Sandy approximately 250 miles southeast of Long Island, the storm's effects were apparent Monday morning on the South Fork.
Just before 9 a.m. on Monday, the water at the head of Three Mile Harbor was spilling onto the town docks. A few boats, girded with bumpers and floats, remained.
In Montauk, water from Fort Pond Bay was pouring into Lake Montauk. Flooding was observed in parts of downtown Montauk. The Star Island causeway was nearly overtopped by the rising water.
In Amagansett high waves were pounding the north and east-facing bayfront. Ocean beach access were closed across the South Fork, and officials were ordering all non-emergency vehicles from the roadways.
October 18, 2012
The debate, sponsored by the League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, will give voters a chance to hear from Kenneth P. LaValle, the 35-year incumbent, and his challenger, Southampton Town Councilwoman Bridget Fleming.
The candidates for New York State Senate will face off in a debate on Monday evening at the Emergency Services Building at 1 Cedar Street in East Hampton.
The debate, sponsored by the League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, will give voters a chance to hear from Kenneth P. LaValle, the 35-year incumbent, and his challenger, Southampton Town Councilwoman Bridget Fleming.
August 29, 2012
Police said that George Richardson, 50, was last seen at Hartmann's Briney Breezes Motel on Old Montauk Highway.
East Hampton Town police issued a report just before noon on Wednesday of a man missing since early Tuesday in Montauk.
Police said that George Richardson, 50, was last seen at Hartmann's Briney Breezes Motel on Old Montauk Highway. He was described as a white male; 5 feet, 6 inches in height, with short gray or salt-and-pepper hair. He was last reported wearing running shoes and an orange hat.
Anyone with information about Mr. Richardson or his possible whereabouts has been asked to phone the town detective division at 631-537-7575.
June 21, 2012
East Hampton Town police arrested Martin A. Soto of East Hampton and charged him with having committed a criminal sexual act in the first degree in 2004.
East Hampton Town police arrested Martin A. Soto of East Hampton a little before 6:30 on Friday evening and charged him with having committed a criminal sexual act in the first degree in 2004.
The specific law cited would mean that Mr. Soto, 48, allegedly had either oral or anal sexual relations with a child under 13 years old. Police have released very little information because of the nature of the case and the age of the alleged victim at the time of the incident.
May 10, 2012
Quamine T. Taylor, who has been accused of breaking into the music and fashion mogul Sean Combs’s house in East Hampton on March 31 and using it as his own for 24 hours, appeared in East Hampton Town Court last Thursday before Justice Lisa R. Rana for pre-trial motions.
He had been arrested in a similar incident 10 years ago.
March 8, 2012
(01/28/2010) About two years ago, Tom Talmage, the East Hampton Town engineer and Sylvia Overby, the town planning board chairwoman at the time, jumped into a car and drove to the Panoramic View Resort and Residences in Montauk to check out a tip that construction there was going far beyond what had been approved by other town officials.
Ms. Overby said this month that what she saw that day did not match what she had read in the town’s files, which described simple renovations on part of the oceanfront property.
January 20, 2012
(07/29/2009) Montauk Beverage Works is a light blend of crisp iced tea that was created by Raymond Smyth from his parents’ house in Massapequa. Mr. Smyth, 27, spent the last year concocting unusual blends of tea leaves, natural sweeteners, and other flavors before he hit upon just the right blend of Nilgiri and Ceylon tea leaves sweetened with agave nectar, which he bottled and is now selling in about 20 stores from Westhampton to Montauk.
January 5, 2012
(Sept. 26, 1996) At a three-and-a-half-hour public hearing drawing more than 300 people, opponents of the proposed A&P supermarket warned of suburban sprawl, destabilization of existing village businesses, and, as one speaker put it, putting the "quality of shopping over the quality of life."
The turnout at the hearing was so large, it had to be relocated from Town Hall to Guild Hall's John Drew Theater at the last minute.
November 17, 2011
“To Kill a Mockingbird,” Harper Lee’s seminal civil rights masterpiece that rocked the world when it was published, has come to the Bay Street Theatre stage, under the able hand of Murphy Davis as director. Cut down to 90 minutes with no intermission, the production is offered as part of the theater’s Literature Live educational outreach program.
November 10, 2011
Drew Shiflett works slowly, like the tortoise to everyone else’s hare. Her rhythmic compositions evolve over time, creating an arc that stretches from simple geometries, like grids and parallel lines, all the way to rigorous seriality, minimalism, and the principles of ancient decorative motifs. She employs a degree of precision in her work that is staggering, a level of commitment that is nearly religious in its scope, and a fragile humility that makes it seem okay to be human.
October 27, 2011
An indoor-outdoor house, defined, in part, by Adirondack style and, in part, by what its owners call Thai Art Deco, is hidden a few hundred feet off Montauk Highway in Amagansett.
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Behind the Bayberry Nursery on a pond surrounded by woodland, the house expresses the creative imaginations of David Seeler, who has owned the nursery since 1970, and his wife, Ngaere Macray, an artist and garden expert.
October 20, 2011
In September of 1993, after surfing perhaps the biggest wave anyone has ever ridden in Montauk, Tucker Geery said: “What was cool was that everyone watched out for each other. There was a real energy in the water. It was the best part of the day.”
In and out of the surf he loved, Mr. Geery projected a sense of wonderment accompanied by a smile that seemed impossible to contain. His friend Greg Donohue described him as Montauk’s favorite son.
October 15, 2011
Scoville Hall, the Amagansett Presbyterian Church’s center used for social events, meetings, and fund-raisers, was destroyed in a pre-dawn fire on Saturday morning. The cause was under investigation.
Scoville Hall, the 1925 building used by the Amagansett Presbyterian Church for social events, meetings, and fund-raisers, was destroyed in a pre-dawn fire on Saturday morning. The cause was under investigation.
Sirens blared over Amagansett sometime after 3 a.m. Saturday. Additional help came from neighboring fire departments.
Meeting House Lane remained closed into Saturday afternoon with crime scene tape and police stationed at the Main Street intersection.
October 13, 2011
In its third appearance on the South Fork, Songs of Solomon, an inspirational youth ensemble that has performed with the likes of Elton John and Jessye Norman, will take center stage at the Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor on Saturday. The performance is a benefit for the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center.
October 10, 2011
An aviation law expert hired by the East Hampton Town Board will attend a meeting in Montauk tomorrow to talk about noise control at the East Hampton Airport.
At a work session Tuesday, the East Hampton Town Board will hear a presentation from Peter J. Kirsch, an aviation law attorney the town has hired for advice on town airport matters. The meeting begins at 10 a.m. at the Montauk Firehouse.
October 6, 2011
The Amagansett Fire District will acquire a two-acre parcel at 415 Main Street, next door to the firehouse, following a public referendum on Tuesday night.
The Amagansett Fire District will acquire a two-acre parcel at 415 Main Street, next door to the firehouse, following a public referendum on Tuesday night.
Amagansett residents agreed to buy the property, the site of the former Pacific East restaurant, by a vote of 140 to 102. Their approval was needed before the $2.8 million purchase could proceed.
