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Russell Drumm
Senior Writer

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  • A Torturous Waiting Game

        Ready, get set. . . . It’s like surfers waiting for a forecast swell to arrive, or the first crack of the bat for those yearning to return to Mudville. Fishermen are with child for the arrival of fish, as is the case each spring, but this season’s cold temperatures seem to be drawing it, torturously, out.

    By: Russell Drumm
  • Coastal Living After Sandy
    A New York Sea Grant expert provided an overview of Long Island’s coastal makeup and the forces at work upon it. Few local governments have enough information to make informed decisions about how to deal with the long-range problem of sea level rise, he said.
    By: Russell Drumm
  • Relay: The Earth Doesn’t Care

       Now, I like Brian Williams. I usually watch his nightly news report at 6:30 p.m. But I have to take strong exception to the way he reported the emergence of millions of 17-year locusts expected in the next few weeks along the East Coast.
        Preaching to the choir, he was, full of anxious anticipation, brow furrowed with the threat of the looming plague. What’s next, he asked. First we are forced to endure mega storms, and droughts, and on and on. Oh the racket! Oh the horror we will now have to endure!

    By: Russell Drumm
  • On the Water: The Bass Shootout Cometh

       The Montauk SurfMasters spring shootout tournament will begin on May 10. The first of Montauk’s annual fishing tournaments targets striped bass.
        The entry fee is $110, all but $10 of which will go into the winner’s pot. The ten bucks is for lunch on awards day, June 29. The tournament has no divisions. Waders, wetsuiters, adult men and women compete against one another. An extra prize of $100 will be awarded for the first legal-size bass (28 inches long or longer) that’s weighed in.

    By: Russell Drumm
  • A Shattering Musical Finale

        Shattered Glass is an appropriate name for the truly exceptional string ensemble that performed at Saturday night’s Music for Montauk program. An appropriate name because as the musicians made their final bows many in the audience felt as though something precious had been broken.

    By: Russell Drumm
  • ‘Give Me Space’ in Three Mile Harbor

        The East Hampton Town Trustees’ plan to condense the 90 moorings set aside for large boats within a broad area in the center of Three Mile Harbor came under fire during the trustees’ monthly meeting Tuesday night.
        Sean McCaffery and Stephanie Forsberg, trustees, and the panel’s clerk, Diane McNally, explained to the dozen or so boaters in attendance that the board was trying to correct a disorderly pattern which boaters had come to accept as normal.

    By: Russell Drumm
  • Obstacles on Obstacles
    Access has improved, but there is more to do, and local businesses must start conforming to the dictates of the Americans With Disabilities Act's “readily achievable” mandate, an advocate said.
    By: Russell Drumm
  • ON THE WATER: Tom Turkeys on My Trail on Flamingo

       So, there I was driving down the hill on Flamingo Avenue toward the Montauk Firehouse early in the morning last week. Up ahead on the other side of the road was a jogger at the start of her climb. Whoa! What’s that behind her?

    By: Russell Drumm
  • A Community Fishery Starts In Montauk
    Can the idea of a community farm, where members buy shares in a future harvest, work for fish?
    By: Russell Drumm
  • A Closer Eye on Shellfishing Waters
    During the East Hampton Town Trustees meeting of March 19, Stephanie Forsberg announced that the board would be funding a comprehensive monitoring of trustee waters, both freshwater and marine.
    By: Russell Drumm

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