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Sagaponack General Reopens; Gun Club, Airport in Spotlight
Matthew Charron
April 19, 2025
April 19, 2025
Today: Clouds early will give way to some sun later, high 59, winds southwest at 10 to 20 miles per hour. Tonight: Some passing clouds, low 52. Tomorrow: Partly cloudy, high 59, winds northwest at 10 to 20 m.p.h. Sunset tonight: 7:33. Sunrise tomorrow: 6:01. Three Mile Harbor tides today: Low, 9:31 a.m. and 9:33 p.m.; high, 3:03 p.m.
East Hampton Town and the Maidstone Gun Club in Wainscott, which has been shuttered since August 2022, may be close to renewing a lease for the 97-acre property despite litigation brought by several residents who say that errant bullets fired from the private club have hit their houses, posing a threat to their very lives.
By Christopher Walsh
 | Two themes were apparent when over half a dozen people turned up at an East Hampton Town Board meeting this week: consternation that the town would soon settle a lawsuit brought after the board attempted to close the airport in 2022 and immediately reopen it with restrictions, and threats that a settlement would ultimately hurt the board members at the ballot box. By Christopher Gangemi |
 | Stepping into the new Sagaponack General Store, which reopened Wednesday after being closed since 2020, is a sweet experience, and not just because there’s a soft-serve ice cream station on the left and what promises to be the biggest penny candy selection on the South Fork on your right, but because it’s like seeing an old friend who, after some struggle, made it big. Really, really big. By Christopher Gangemi |
Has a shocking crime that took place in East Hampton Village in 1955 finally been solved? Mayor Jerry Larsen believes it has, and he isn’t alone.
By Christopher Walsh
 | A massive die-off of honeybees this winter marks “the first time in history that professionals lost more bees than hobbyists,” one beekeeper said. Bee experts are working to identify the cause of unprecedented losses that will be the biggest to hit honeybee colonies in U.S. history. By Christopher Gangemi |
 | Parents, government officials, and teachers gathered at East Hampton High School last Thursday evening for the annual Science Research Symposium to see the work of more than 70 East Hampton students. By Denis Hartnett |
 | When Superstorm Sandy roared across the South Fork the distinctive weathervane atop the Amagansett School — in the shape of a sailboat with gulls flying fore and aft — was one small casualty. Bob Linker of the Irony has not only restored the weathervane, but made sure it will work properly for the first time. By Irene Silverman |
 | After being closed to the public for more than a decade and with a yearslong renovation project deemed complete, Second House in Montauk, originally built in 1746 and replaced in 1797 following a fire, will soon reopen to the public. By Christopher Walsh |
 | Tuesday is Earth Day, and there are a number of opportunities on the South Fork to celebrate and honor the planet as it contends with myriad environmental stresses. By Christopher Walsh |
Helen S. Rattray, the longtime editor and publisher of The East Hampton Star, died early Wednesday morning at Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenport.
 | East Hampton Village’s new Flock license-plate reader cameras are having an immediate effect here. Out of 18 arrests reported by village police in the last two weeks, 14 were made with the assistance of the cameras. By Denis Hartnett |
 | Several East Hampton Town Trustees have questioned the expansion of an oyster restoration effort and an accompanying reef in Georgica Pond that were requested by Stony Brook University scientists. “I don’t want to be a board that drastically changed that entire closed ecosystem,” the presiding officer said. By Christopher Walsh |
 | In the wake of the March 8 and 9 brush fires in the Pine Barrens around Westhampton Beach, Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine has announced the county’s first southern pine beetle symposium. By Christopher Walsh |
 | Kim Quarty, who spent 17 years at the Peconic Land Trust, serving as its director of conservation planning, is the foundation’s new executive director. By Christopher Walsh |
 | Sag Harbor Village police have received several reports of “swatting” calls, falsely reporting an emergency, from Main Street businesses recently, three involving Sag Pizza and another, last week, involving Apple Bank. By Denis Hartnett |
Last winter and the one just passed have proved less daunting for some here than in the past thanks to the presence of the Hamptons Run Club, which is overseen by Edwin Garcia, a Montauk personal trainer.
By Jack Graves
 | Anyone who has played a racket sport — tennis, platform tennis, squash, racquetball, pickleball — will be able to pick up padel readily, and it’s popularity is surging. By Jack Graves |
 | Shari Goddard Shambaugh is a self-taught painter whose passion for nature is reflected in her landscapes and floral paintings. By Christine Sampson |
 | A record of payments Nathaniel Baker made, mostly as barter, to the heirs of Abraham Schellinger beginning in 1713. By Andrea Meyer |
