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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.
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January 1, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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.
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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.
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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December 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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.
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
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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December 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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
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."
"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."
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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November 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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."
"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."
One hundred years later, the ur-developer Carl Fisher’s influence on Montauk, now immense in the popular imagination, remains profound.
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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September 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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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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.
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August 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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...
Read it here: www.easthamptonstar.com/guestwords-o...
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.
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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August 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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.
Home insurance rates in the Northeast soar as losses mount and some industry players leave the market entirely.
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November 29, 2024 at 11:36 AM
Home insurance rates in the Northeast soar as losses mount and some industry players leave the market entirely.
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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.
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November 28, 2024 at 10:50 AM
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.
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The "world's strongest barista" may work at the Bridgehampton Starbuck's/ www.easthamptonstar.com/sports/20241...
November 21, 2024 at 3:16 PM
The "world's strongest barista" may work at the Bridgehampton Starbuck's/ www.easthamptonstar.com/sports/20241...
The first issue of The East Hampton Star, Dec. 26, 1885
November 13, 2024 at 9:44 PM
The first issue of The East Hampton Star, Dec. 26, 1885