Villages

An East Hampton builder has published a book that advocates for the adoption of a mechanism that he says will harness the free market to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, empowering consumers to choose climate-friendly products in the process.

Jaine Mehring of Amagansett’s Beach Hampton neighborhood is on a quest to focus attention on the wave of development and redevelopment that is transforming neighborhoods and is characterized by building to the maximum allowable size and lot coverage.

When Perry Duryea spoke up for making Peconic County a reality, and more from The Star of yesteryear.

To celebrate the start of spring, this photo depicts the Garden Club of East Hampton’s first flower show in 1916 at the home of May Groot Manson on Main Street in the village.

Cardinals, among our earliest singer each spring, are so familiar you might forget to appreciate them, but a century ago they were rare in New York.

The Maidstone Gun Club, which has been closed since early December by a New York State Supreme Court order as an investigation takes place into errant bullets allegedly reaching nearby houses, has countered a lawsuit seeking its permanent closure with several claims of its own.

When a water line break in East Hampton Village flooded several businesses a month ago, Gubbins Running Ahead, a sporting goods shop on Park Place, lost all of its inventory, including 7,000 pairs of athletic footwear. Last week, Geary Gubbins, who has run the sporting goods shop since 2013, parlayed his business’s misfortune into an act of generosity for a local nonprofit.

A fire last summer in a Noyac rental house, in which two young women died, has led nearby Sag Harbor Village to re-evaluate its own rental laws. “I think this awful tragedy has awakened a lot of people to these rental activities, that go unaddressed and unregulated,” Sag Harbor Mayor James Larocca said when discussing a proposed law that would establish a rental registry.

The day in 1973 when the giant hanger at the New York Ocean Science Laboratory, a Montauk landmark since it was built during World War II, burned to the ground, and more from the pages of The Star.

Ruth Sterling Benjamin (1882-1957), far right in this photo from The Star’s archive, with five local girls at Home, Sweet Home for a John Howard Payne birthday celebration.

Take a trip into the past, Star-style.

This ribboned wedding invitation from the Springs Historical Society collection heralded the marriage of Hiram Miller and Emma Edwards in Springs in 1887.