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With a major renovation now substantially complete, Temple Adas Israel's rabbi and members joyfully returned holy books and artifacts to the synagogue in a Torah procession on Friday. “This being our first Shabbat in the new building, we felt we needed to do something to celebrate,” said Rabbi Dan Geffen.

One hundred years ago, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the village’s most famous “lowly thatched cottage” — John Howard Payne’s Home, Sweet Home.

This student-made guide to the native plants of the East Hampton Nature Trail from 1976 feels particularly relevant this spring.

From 1998, a less-than-enthusiastic assessment of the state of downtown East Hampton. And more from The Star of yore.

Concerned Citizens of Montauk has announced that Laura Tooman, the group’s president for the last six years, has stepped down from that position.

John Lyon Gardiner (1770-1816), the seventh proprietor of Gardiner’s Island, wrote to his brother in Queens on this day 233 years ago with updates on people here and complaints about the mail.

The 46th annual meeting of the League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, Shelter Island, and the North Fork happens on Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Westhampton Free Library. The Peconic Land Trust will be the guest speaker’s subject.

It’s hard to mistake the great egret: lengthy yellow bill, long black legs, large white body in between. They have sinewy necks, sometimes stretched straight, other times tucked into a squat S, as when they’re flying.

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Concerned Citizens of Montauk announced this week that it has retained Christopher Gobler of Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences to assess Montauk’s wastewater issues.

Sanborn Fire Insurance maps are some of the best sources for historical property ownership and residency information from the mid-19th and 20th centuries. This one shows Southampton Village.

A steel boat built by the late Stuart Vorpahl, a fisherman, historian, town trustee, secretary of the East Hampton Baymen’s Association, and descendant of one of East Hampton’s oldest families, landed at the East Hampton Historical Farm Museum and is now on view there.

Those coming of age in the 1960s and ‘70s have either arrived at retirement or are about to enter that stage of life soon, comprising a demographic that studies show is both returning to marijuana and trying it for the first time. “It’s the legalization that is piquing people’s curiosity once again,” said David Falkowski, a cannabis expert, grower of industrial hemp, and producer and seller of CBD products. “Old people love weed.”

This handwritten cookbook was owned and compiled by members of the Hedges family, a prominent, active group living on Main Street in East Hampton Village.

Hamptons Whodunit, the first-ever crime festival in East Hampton Village, was a big success, according to Carrie Doyle, the village board member who, along with Jackie Dunphy, Mayor Jerry Larsen, and his wife, Lisa Larsen, co-founded the celebration of  mystery and thriller writers and fans.

Twenty-five years ago, as the Energy Department announced “significant progress” in forming a community advisory council at Brookhaven National Laboratory, an East Hampton activist group demanded closer attention to the radioactive contamination leaking from the lab into the groundwater. And more ripped from The Star of yore.

The Long Island Community Foundation has awarded a $25,000 grant to Concerned Citizens of Montauk to install floating wetlands again in Fort Pond, an effort through which the group has been able to mitigate the harmful blue-green algal blooms that have beset the pond in recent years.

A stroll down The Star’s memory lane.

There was nothing new about the presence of rat traps along the East Hampton Village Nature Trail, but they still caused alarm.

Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, sent this 1948 letter to Abe Katz, an East Hampton dairy farmer, on the subject of an animal research laboratory planned for Montauk.

In this photo from The East Hampton Star’s photo archive, William Cooper (b. 1899), owner and proprietor of Deep Hollow Ranch in Montauk, is seen on a hay-covered truck bed next to several calves.

Stony Brook Southampton Hospital has closed the Parrish Hall drive-through Covid-19 testing site in response to a decline in positive cases and the easing of New York State Department of Health and federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, the hospital announced on Monday.

“It’s a record price per square foot for any commercial real estate transaction in the Hamptons, ever,” said Jeremey Tahari of Tahari Capital, whose father, Elie Tahari, sold the building at 1 Main Street in East Hampton for $22 million to Bernard Arnault, named by Forbes last week as the world’s richest person.

Sept. 23 is the tentative date for a parade that will cap a celebration of East Hampton Town's 375th anniversary; festivities are likely to begin in June.

It’s been five years since a petting zoo sprang up at the Sag Harbor Garden Center for Easter weekend, but Linnette Roe, who is kicking off her second season as the center’s owner, thought it was time to bring it back.

The day Patrolman Glen Stonemetz's 1953 Chevrolet sedan got torched in the Newtown Lane parking lot. And much more ripped from the pages of The Star of yore.

The Long Island Power Authority’s board of trustees voted on March 29 to implement a standard time-of-day rate and optional “super off-peak rate” for residential customers on Long Island and in the Rockaways starting in 2024. Its customers will have the option to remain on a flat rate.

With its executive director, Scott Howe, retiring this month, the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons announced Monday that it has hired Kimberly J. Nichols as its next top administrator.

Christopher Gangemi, a reporter who joined the staff of The East Hampton Star in December 2021 as a newcomer to journalism, won the New York Press Association’s Rookie of the Year award at its Better Newspaper convention last weekend. The Star was also recognized for its news and feature writing and for its East magazine.

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