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Michael Clark of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.<br>Photos by Kyril Bromley

Myriad views on deer control in East Hampton Town

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Deer and people are living in ever closer proximity in East Hampton, and the tales of how their lives are entwined range from that of a bicyclist who died when a car hit a deer, which then hit him, to the story of a doe lactating and feeding her fawns in a woman’s driveway, to the ever-more-common stories of wild deer running through the woods with arrows still in them after a bow hunter’s shot failed to kill them. more

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Southampton High School seeks upgrades for planetarium, envisions opening to public

On the grand scale of the universe, the Southampton High School planetarium, dating from the early 1970s, is brand new. Compared to the stars and planets it projects, the space-age facility—the only one of its kind in an East End school—is a cosmic infant. more

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Crawl space find yields 'Accidental Fortune' A little more than two years ago, Jeremy Burke and his wife, Nicole, were just starting out married life together on the East End. The young couple had been wed a few years, had just welcomed their first daughter, Ellie Jean, into the world and had become first-time homeowners in East Moriches. Times weren’t necessarily tough for the young marrieds, but Mr. Burke was working three jobs—as a New York City fireman, laying carpet and doing security work—all to finance his version of the American dream. more more home & garden	Dedicated group hoping to bring back a piece of history 7 comments At the dead end of Bay Lane in Water Mill overlooking Mecox Bay sits a small, broken down cottage. The windows are boarded up, the white paint is cracked and peeling and the floorboards on the tiny porch are jagged and cracked. If you blink, you could miss it—the overgrown beach grasses reach higher than the roof in many areas and a rusty flagpole pokes forlornly into the gray winter sky. more more sports	Café Noir sets the mood on Fridays at Annona 1 comment On Friday nights, Annona Restaurant in Westhampton Beach is all about smooth. more more arts

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