125 Years Ago 1898
From The East Hampton Star, October 21
Many of those who occupied cottages in East Hampton for the past season for the first time have signified their intention of returning again next summer. East Hampton has just had its banner summer, but all indications point to a busier season than ever next summer. As a summer resort East Hampton is bound to get to the front before many years.
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If all citizens were as public spirited as C. Schenck there would be no trouble in keeping Main street in good condition. He was out during the rain Wednesday cleaning the gutter in front of his place, thus giving the water free passage at the side of the roadway.
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By a new postal regulation it is now possible to issue a money order at the East Hampton post office to be paid at the same office. For instance: John Doe of East Hampton can issue a money order payable to Richard Roe of East Hampton. This new rule is operative only in offices which are not limited money order offices.
75 Years Ago 1948
From The East Hampton Star, October 21
East Hampton beat Greenport last Saturday by a score of 25-0. Greenport didn’t threaten during the entire game. There were more East Hampton spectators at the game than were present from Greenport, even though Greenport is a long distance from East Hampton.
Greenport kicked off to East Hampton. The ball was taken on the 10 yard line and run back to the 20 by a Loris-to-Ecker reverse. The first play was a sweeping end pass. On the next play Harry O’Rourke ran through the line for a first down. After two more plays East Hampton was up to the 50 with a first down. After another first down East Hampton was held for a while. With fourth down and 10 yards to go East Hampton failed to make another first down. Greenport took possession for the first time in the game.
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Adelayde Humm, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Humm, has been chosen one of sixteen girls to model at a Floral Style Show at Wellsville High School auditorium, Wellsville, N.Y., November 11. Miss Humm, a freshman at the New York State Agricultural & Technical Institute at Alfred, was chosen by vote of the students. The style show is being sponsored by the Wellsville Chamber of Commerce and Florists’ Telegraph Delivery Association.
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What’s New in New York
This is the time of the year when the tug of country versus city begins. For many people the latter wins, always presupposing they have a choice. But by rushing back to the city the lush days of Indian summer are lost to asphalt and tall buildings. The symphony of color played by the leaves is exchanged for the shop windows, and I am the last person in the world to deny the attraction of those. But somehow, not being one of those lucky ones who can week-end in the country and rejoice in all town has to offer throughout the week, I’d rather let the city attractions wait for a month before I begin to enjoy them.
50 Years Ago 1973
From The East Hampton Star, October 18
Two incumbent East End Town Supervisors and three aspirant ones, all candidates this year, spoke at Southampton College Friday evening. One advocated “preserving the rural quality of the Town as we know it today”; another, “a more conservative and reasonable rate of growth”; another, “a three-pronged attack on uncontrolled growth”; another, “controlling orderly growth”; and another, finding out “how to control growth.” Nevertheless, they did not always agree.
The Democratic candidate for East Hampton Town Supervisor, for example, Judith Hope, said that her Republican opponent, Supervisor Eugene E. Lester Jr., “cannot find a single real issue,” lacked the courage to find one, and, instead, had “the incredible audacity to point to his record.”
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The seven-member Sag Harbor Historic Preservation Commission has recommended, in a handsome 76-page report called “Sag Harbor — Past, Present and Future,” a series of zoning ordinance amendments aimed at preserving that Village’s “unique historic and architectural continuity.”
Prepared by a professional planner, Robert H. Pine, consultant to the Commission, through a $5,000 grant from the New York Council on the Arts, the report presents parallel accounts of Sag Harbor history — beginning with its settlement in the early 18th century — and the Village’s blend of eight major architectural styles, from the Colonial, to the classical Greek Revival forms that flourished during the whaling boom days of the mid-19th century, to the high-peaked, turreted irregularity of Victorian summer homes at the turn of the century.
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Three young marine technicians of the New York Ocean Science Laboratory at Montauk recently participated in the United States-Soviet Union survey of fish along the East Coast, between Cape Cod and Cape Hatteras. The survey, which includes other nations as well, is in its ninth year.
Data from their cruises, conducted about 100 miles offshore, are now being analyzed at the National Marine Fisheries Service Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass., and will probably be available to the conferees at the next international conference on North Atlantic fisheries.
25 Years Ago 1998
From The East Hampton Star, October 22
In what it hopes will usher in a more efficient era in local government, the East Hampton Town Board voted on Friday to create a new Town Code Enforcement Department and begin “consolidation” of the Town Planning and Natural Resources Departments.
The changes come after several closed-door meetings on a six-month management and reorganizational study done by Daniel L. Hillman Associates, a Babylon firm. Over the next three and a half months Hillman Associates will serve as the town’s interim “director of operations,” overseeing the departmental changes and also analyzing the town’s technology needs.
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The recent dismissal of a key lawsuit aimed at furthering the cause of Peconic County dealt a hard blow to its supporters, who nevertheless vowed last week to make one final, exhaustive push over the coming year.
Proponents of the East End’s secession from Suffolk County had hoped the suit would force the State Legislature to enact a procedure for creating new counties. On Friday, disappointed but not defeated, they promised to appeal the decision, and also talked of joining forces with would-be secessionists on Staten Island, hiring a lobbyist to argue their cause in Albany, and seeking support from the State Assembly’s Democratic majority.
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Three alleged shoplifters took two East Hampton Town police officers on a low-speed chase Sunday afternoon, meandering the length of the South Fork, and finally got away. According to police records, the sergeant on duty deemed the pursuit, in heavy traffic, too dangerous when weighed against the crime, and called it off.
The incident began about 4:15 p.m. with a report from the CVS store on Pantigo Road in East Hampton that a man and two women had walked off with two boxes of home diabetes test kits, one with 50 tests, priced at $35.49, and the other, with twice as many tests, at $59.99.
