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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...

No explanation yet why dozens of dead and dying Canada geese have appeared on the ocean beach in Wainscott over the past two weeks.
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East Hampton Library Main Street cam

A scene something Monet-like from the East Hampton Library Main Street cam this morning

Robert A.M. Stern

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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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.

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.

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?

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

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...

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."

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 ...

One hundred years later, the ur-developer Carl Fisher’s influence on Montauk, now immense in the popular imagination, remains profound.

The newspaper's logo is at the top and beneath it is a crab with "arms" crossed (it is not a horseshoe crab).

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...

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.

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.

Montauk beach after a 2023 storm

Home insurance rates in the Northeast soar as losses mount and some industry players leave the market entirely.
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A wild pond on Plum Island in spring, 2015

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

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.”

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