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On Call: The Effectiveness of Boosters

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control released data evaluating the effectiveness of a third dose of an mRNA vaccine in preventing Covid-19. There have been clear indications since before third doses, or “booster” doses, were authorized that vaccine-induced immunity wanes over time. This has become particularly relevant as SARS CoV-2 has continued to mutate and multiply, allowing for the rise of variants such as Delta and Omicron.

Jan 27, 2022
Item of the Week: The Great Bonac Canoe Race

The Springs Historical Society held the first Great Bonac Canoe Race on Saturday, Aug. 15, 1981, and the item shown here is that year’s map for the race’s route.

Jan 27, 2022
On the Wing: The One That Got Away

The first and most important thing to know about the purple sandpiper is that it’s not purple. It’s not even close. For the beginner, the best way to see this bird — the only sandpiper we tend to see here in winter months — is to know where it hangs out, because it absolutely doesn’t stand out.

Jan 27, 2022
The Way It Was for January 27

One hundred and twenty-five years ago, the icemen were busy here. Twenty-five years ago, the district’s congressman and a U.S. senator expressed disgust at Brookhaven National Lab contamination.

Jan 27, 2022
The Way It Was for January 20

From memories of whalemen to postwar bouts of card playing.

Jan 20, 2022
On the Wing: The Woods Are Its ‘Web’

The screech owl is about the size of a brick, with big eyes, and ear tufts, but this adorable little owl is an efficient killer. Its howl represents pure death to a variety of critters. Nothing is safe, even other screech owls. It even takes bats on the wing.

Jan 20, 2022
In Winter, Cold Can Be a Killer

Winter can often be the deadliest time of the year, but there are ways to protect yourself and your home from cold-related accidents.

Jan 20, 2022
The Latest Covid Surge May Have Crested

While the pandemic’s trajectory remains uncertain, the Omicron variant’s tendency to cause milder sickness, combined with the sheer number of those with a degree of protection through prior infection or vaccination, signal a period of transition for the virus that has upended life for the past two years.

Jan 20, 2022
Prayers for, Solidarity With Texas Temple

When a man with a gun took a rabbi and three members of his congregation as hostages at the Beth Israel Congregation in Colleyville, Texas, on Saturday — a situation that the hostages survived, but the gunman did not — ripples of resolve ran through Jewish houses of worship here.

Jan 20, 2022
Item of the Week: The Optimism of Capt. Jared Wade

One hundred and sixty-eight years ago, on Jan. 21, 1854, Capt. Jared Wade Jr. (1811-1889) wrote to his wife, Harriett Bushnell Wade (1831-1911), from St. Helena Island. This British island in the South Atlantic served as an important stopping-off port for the whaling and shipping industry.

Jan 20, 2022
Item of the Week: Charles Parsons, the Edison of Springs

This photograph from the C. Frank Dayton Photograph Collection shows the exterior of the blacksmith shop of Charles Silas Parsons (1858-1926) before its relocation and restoration.

Jan 13, 2022
On the Wing: Superhero Ducks ‘Fly’ Underwater

Why isn’t the long-tailed duck more celebrated? It’s crazy looking, gregarious, easily seen, cackles like a stuttering kazoo, hilariously belly-flops when it lands, and hangs out in bad little duck posses. It’s even controversial.

Jan 13, 2022
On Call: Not Your Fault or Your Failure

More and more people are visiting health professionals to discuss anxiety and depression, and what's striking is not the new onset of these symptoms and conditions or the severity with which they are presenting but instead that so many people are almost apologetic when they bring up these concerns.

Jan 13, 2022
A Jewel on the Village Oceanfront

Within a year after a 1978 fire that burned the Sea Spray Inn in East Hampton to the ground, village residents voted to buy the 16-acre property and to add the land and its 10 cottages to the village’s roster of parks and recreational sites. In recent weeks, there's been talk of changes at property, including whether it would be advantageous to turn their management over to a private company, which would then be responsible for their upkeep.

Jan 13, 2022
The Way It Was for January 13

Deep into The Star’s past . . .

Jan 13, 2022
Out With an Outhouse, the Last in Town

“We’ve been a community center since 1908 and have never had a proper bathroom,” said Hilary Osborn Malecki, president of the Wainscott Sewing Society, which maintains the Wainscott Chapel. The chapel has existed all this time with only an outhouse, but that is about to change.

Jan 13, 2022
Hopeful Signs Despite Record Virus Numbers

The Omicron variant of Covid-19 continues to surge through Suffolk County, but there may be signs of a coming decline in cases, which reached an all time high last week.

Jan 13, 2022
The Way It Was for January 6

Ripped from the storied pages of The Star . . .

Jan 6, 2022
Upcoming Vaccine Clinics

The push to expand access to Covid-19 vaccines continues on the South Fork, with East Hampton Town adding five additional vaccination clinics in February and Stony Brook Southampton Hospital moving its clinics to the Greek Orthodox Church of the Hamptons to accommodate more appointments.

Jan 6, 2022
Wellness Foundation Will Close

Founded in 2005 by Douglas Mercer, the Wellness Foundation announced its closing just before Christmas. The organization worked closely with local school districts, helping to make healthy food a priority, and ran Wellness Challenges for adults that encouraged a holistic approach toward a healthier lifestyle.

Jan 6, 2022
Schools See Impact of Omicron

Spurred by an avalanche of positive Covid-19 cases over the holiday season among families, kids, and teachers, virus-related impacts have been fast and furious in coming to South Fork schools.

Jan 6, 2022
On Call: As Omicron Marches On

As we enter a new year and come upon the second anniversary of the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, it is time once again to review the most current guidelines for testing, quarantine after exposure, and isolation while infected with Covid-19. This is particularly necessary as the Centers for Disease Control recently updated their guidelines to reflect the latest known data about the rising Omicron variant, which has spread at an incredible pace.

Jan 6, 2022
Item of the Week: A Snowy Presbyterian Church

This photograph, taken by Leonard L. Lester, shows the East Hampton Presbyterian Church covered in a thick blanket of snow. There’s no date, but the photo technology clearly indicates that it was taken after 1920, most likely between 1930 and 1960, when a remodeling was started.

Jan 6, 2022
Sag Harbor Braces for Gas Main Replacement

Starting Monday, anyone traveling through the heart of Sag Harbor Village might experience traffic snarls, as National Grid begins replacing the gas main underneath Main Street. Workers will be on site between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Jan 6, 2022
New Year’s Plungers in a Buoyant Mood

The first day of the new year was drizzly and drab, and, to some, depressing, though you wouldn’t have known it had you been at East Hampton Village’s Main Beach or at the Beach Lane road end in Wainscott for the New Year’s Day plunges that afternoon.

Jan 5, 2022
Real Estate Frenzy Made 2021 Another Record Year

Residential real estate transfers made history on the South Fork again in 2021, with record-high sales totals, record-low inventory, and a lightning-fast pace at which deals are being made. It was a frenzied year, described by industry professionals as a seller's market in which cash is king, bidding wars are common, and inventory is low.

Dec 30, 2021
Anchor Society Gets a ‘Vote of Confidence’

The Village Preservation Society of East Hampton has awarded a $5,000 grant to the Anchor Society of East Hampton, a recently formed nonprofit organization seeking to open a year-round general store in the village that would offer daily necessities as well as a haven for neighbors to meet and greet each other

Dec 30, 2021
On Call: A Look Back, and Ahead

Many of us are once again struggling with a sense that this pandemic will never end. History tells us this isn’t the case, that this pandemic, like all of the others that have come before, will eventually cease and life will return to some semblance of “normal.”

Dec 30, 2021
More Contagious Variant Fuels Covid Explosion

As the highly contagious Omicron variant emerges as the dominant strain of Covid-19 infecting New Yorkers, comments from weary physicians here underscored the surprising speed with which the virus has been spreading.

Dec 30, 2021
New Ice Cream Shop Is Coming to East Hampton

A La Mode Shoppe, a handcrafted, small-batch, allergy-free ice cream operation, has announced it will take over the space on Newtown Lane formerly occupied by the popular Scoop du Jour.

Dec 30, 2021