Villages

“Six months into the pandemic, I said that in three years we are going to have a complete dearth of the sort of entry-level people in medicine . . . which is exactly what we’ve seen,” said Dr. N. Patrick Hennessey, a dermatologist who has had to staff his Wainscott practice with employees from his Manhattan office. Health care professionals across the South Fork can relate.

When Shep Frood scored from second for the local nine, and more from the good old days.

East Hampton is downright lucky to have a population of saltmarsh sparrows, birds that are vulnerable because of their dependence on a habitat that shrinks with every centimeter in sea level rise: the salt marsh. The sparrows themselves are not so lucky: they've lost 75 percent of their population since 1990. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is assessing whether the bird should be listed under the Endangered Species Act.

Saturday will mark the 50th anniversary of a performance by Richie Havens on the outdoor stage at Gosman's Dock. Coming four years after Havens opened the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, it was a concert that none who were there are likely to forget.

Fourteen people including Abigail Disney, a great-niece of Walt Disney and an activist who supports raising taxes on the wealthy, were arrested at East Hampton Town Airport on Friday after blocking vehicles from entering or exiting the airport's parking lot for about 90 minutes. One activist described the demonstration as intending to call out "the very grotesque, reckless consumption of the 1 percent" and its impact on climate change.

The Clamshell Foundation's annual Grucci fireworks show will light up the skies over Three Mile Harbor on Saturday night, Sunday if it rains, and the harbor will be closed to shellfishing that day and for four days afterward.

This photo from The East Hampton Star’s archive shows Juan Terry Trippe (1899-1981), the founder of Pan Am, receiving an award from the Brazilian government for his contributions to international travel.

Harvested for bait and their blood, horseshoe crabs, which have endured on earth for over nearly 500 million years, are in a state of decline in the New York area.

The New York State Liquor Authority has conditionally approved a beer and wine license for the East Hampton Cinema, but neither East Hampton Village nor cinema staff were aware of plans to serve adult beverages there anytime soon.

Rip currents kept East Hampton Town and Village lifeguards busy over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, but this week the story was less red flags and more “elevated marine life”: Some 20 sharks, mostly spinner sharks but also threshers, were spotted off Main Beach on Saturday and farther off town beaches as well.

The day in 1948 when 40 people ignored the voting public and got together to save Mulford Farm. And more from The Star of yore.

Jimmy Buffett took his legendary island-music vibes to Sag Harbor’s WLNG radio station on Sunday, dropping by to premiere a new song, “My Gummy Just Kicked In,” on the local airwaves.