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The East Hampton Star @easthamptonstar.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
A summer pop-up of the mega-sporting goods chain Dicks could mean trouble for a beloved mom-and-pop shop just a short football pass away. www.easthamptonstar.com/villages/202...
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Dick’s Sporting Goods Coming to the Village | The East Hampton Star
An outlet of the national chain will open by May 14, right near Gubbins Perfect Fit and Set Point Tennis.
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The East Hampton Star @easthamptonstar.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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Two Arrested in East Hampton Building Department Probe | The East Hampton Star
An East Hampton Town Building Department office assistant on administrative leave and a former building inspector who resigned earlier this year were arrested Wednesday night, charged with bribe recei...
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The East Hampton Star @easthamptonstar.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
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New Montaukett Bill Passes | The East Hampton Star
Three months after Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed a bill that would have provided for reinstatement and acknowledgement of the Montaukett Indian Nation, the New York State Assembly unanimously passed a new ...
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The East Hampton Star @easthamptonstar.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
No explanation yet why dozens of dead and dying Canada geese have appeared on the ocean beach in Wainscott over the past two weeks. www.easthamptonstar.com/villages/202...
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Dead Geese on Beaches Point to Wave of Bird Flu | The East Hampton Star
Reports of dead Canada geese in great numbers along the ocean beaches in the waning days of February have announced the arrival of what appears to be a wave of avian influenza here, posing a threat no...
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The East Hampton Star @easthamptonstar.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
A scene something Monet-like from the East Hampton Library Main Street cam this morning
East Hampton Library Main Street cam
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The East Hampton Star @easthamptonstar.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
One we lost in 2025: Robert A.M. Stern, a leading American architect whose forceful advocacy of Classicism and function defined his projects in East Hampton and around the world, died on Nov. 27. www.easthamptonstar.com/obituaries/2...
Robert A.M. Stern
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The East Hampton Star @easthamptonstar.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
The Star's 2026 calendars are available now.https://www.easthamptonstar.com/store
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The East Hampton Star @easthamptonstar.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Researchers say there are fewer than 8,000 breeding pairs of piping plovers left in the world, so even the success of a handful of the birds on East Hampton beaches really matters.
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Checking In on the Plovers | The East Hampton Star
The bad news is the numbers of piping plover fledglings in East Hampton Town was down in 2025. The good news is the number is still better than in 2023.
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The East Hampton Star @easthamptonstar.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Thea Giovannini-Torelli, hearing a sound like rustling paper, walked out of her bedroom and found a fish, covered in a thin layer of soot flopping on her living room floor near her fireplace. She took it as a sign. By @cgangemi.bsky.social
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It Came in Through a Sooty Chimney | The East Hampton Star
A fish dropped from the sky lands in a Montauk living room with a heavy message of . . . accepting death?
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The East Hampton Star @easthamptonstar.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Birding in the Time of AI "Now, anyone can stand in the woods, hold out their damned phone, and say, “Uh, yeah, that’s a black-throated blue warbler,” or whatever, stealing my single parlor trick. Worse, every time that happens, a tech bro somewhere gets a new Tesla."
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On the Wing: In Birding, Not Knowing Is Okay | The East Hampton Star
Once upon a time, birders might arm themselves with a simple pad and pencil before they tromped off into the woods. When birding, you could touch the sacred, experience wonder, get lost on a loop trai...
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The East Hampton Star @easthamptonstar.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
One hundred years later, the ur-developer Carl Fisher’s influence on Montauk, now immense in the popular imagination, remains profound.
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Carl Fisher’s Montauk, 100 Years Ago | The East Hampton Star
Amid the headlines on the front page of The East Hampton Star’s issue published 100 years ago today, one directly below the masthead stood out: “CARL FISHER BUYS 9,000 ACRES AT MONTAUK FOR $2,500,000 ...
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Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Caroline Sutton, author of “Eyes in the Soles of My Feet: From Horseshoe Crabs to Sycamores, Exploring Hidden Connections to the Natural World" (out in October!), wrote an op ed for @easthamptonstar.bsky.social about protecting horseshoe crabs. Read it here: www.easthamptonstar.com/guestwords-o...
The newspaper's logo is at the top and beneath it is a crab with "arms" crossed (it is not a horseshoe crab).
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The East Hampton Star @easthamptonstar.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
The protagonist in Adam Ross's addictive second novel, drops a bomb right off the bat: “In the fall of 1980, when I was fourteen, a friend of my parents named Naomi Shah fell in love with me.
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Feral Days | The East Hampton Star
In Adam Ross’s “Playworld,” the fictional family of four seems as fully rendered as the 1980 New York City he meticulously details, and the result is at once unsettling, relatable, and funny.
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The East Hampton Star @easthamptonstar.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Home insurance rates in the Northeast soar as losses mount and some industry players leave the market entirely. www.easthamptonstar.com/villages/202...
Montauk beach after a 2023 storm
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The East Hampton Star @easthamptonstar.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
A bill to help make Plum Island, N.Y. a national monument got through the House Natural Resources Committee, paving the way for a congressional vote. #longislandsound
A wild pond on Plum Island in spring, 2015
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The East Hampton Star @easthamptonstar.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The "world's strongest barista" may work at the Bridgehampton Starbuck's/ www.easthamptonstar.com/sports/20241...
His recent lifting and carrying of the 410-pound Husafell stone in Iceland has added weight to Cristian Candemir’s claim to be “the World’s Strongest Barista.”
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The East Hampton Star @easthamptonstar.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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In Montauk, What If, and What Then? | The East Hampton Star
Eventually, a major hurricane is coming, and Montauk — whose lifeblood is the ocean — is not ready. If the hamlet is hit by a truly big hurricane, it won’t be able to just get back to its feet and wal...
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The East Hampton Star @easthamptonstar.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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East Hampton, Amagansett Help With Orange County Blaze | The East Hampton Star
East Hampton and Amagansett Fire Departments were among 10 Suffolk County departments that offered support to fight the wildfires in Orange County, N.Y., as a heightened wildfire risk persists statewi...
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The East Hampton Star @easthamptonstar.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
The first issue of The East Hampton Star, Dec. 26, 1885
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