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Montauk
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08.01.08Getting my Local Monster News from FacebookAnyone who knows me knows that I love Montauk and I am getting my Montauk news from friends still living there via Facebook. So last night one such friend posted that she knows where the Montauk Monster is. I laughed because I thought she was making an obscure reference to The Montauk Project's "Monster from the ID" that came from another time and place. The Montauk Project was alleged to be a series of secret government projects conducted at Camp Hero for the purpose of developing psychological warfare techniques and exotic research including time travel. I believe many parts of ...
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07.24.06Shakespeare Priced out of the HamptonsMONTAUK, NY - For the first time in over a decade, the Hamptons Shakespeare Festival (HSF) announced it will not present its free outdoor production in Montauk and Southampton this summer. The Suffolk County Parks Department denied the Festival housing at Theodore Roosevelt County Park in Montauk, where HSF has been based for ten years. The cabins at the Park are being used by contractors working on renovations to Third House, the main building on the Park's grounds. This housing, which HSF has rented, is essential to the Festival's ability to present the large majority of its programs. Hamptons Shakespeare Festival ...
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05.23.06Hamptons Shakespere Festival AnnouncementMONTAUK, NY - The Hamptons Shakespeare Festival (HSF) announced that Suffolk County Parks Commissioner Ronald F. Foley will not allow the Festival housing this summer at Theodore Roosevelt County Park in Montauk, putting the future of the beloved decade-old program in jeopardy. The cabins at the Park are to be used by contractors working on renovations planned for Third House, the main building on the Park's grounds. This housing, which HSF rents, is essential to house personnel for all of the Festival's programs. HSF has searched for alternate accommodations, but no affordable option is available. Due to funding and personnel issues, skipping a year to ...
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07.14.05Gosmans Sells on Fresh DirectRobert and Mary Gosman founded Gosman's Dock in 1943 on Montauk Inlet, two miles from the tip of Long Island. At the time, the Gosmans were fish packers and "fishdrummers" — agents for the Fulton Fish Market. Their now-famous Gosman's Restaurant had its humble beginnings in Mary's tiny chowder stand (once a breakfast stop for local fishermen). Robert and Mary's children and grandchildren carry on the family business, shipping fresh dayboat seafood to restaurants, country clubs, and fish lovers as near as FreshDirect, and as far-flung as California and Japan... Buy Fish: Fresh Direct
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05.30.05Outside Mag Names Montauk One of the Best Surf Towns in AmericaMontauk, NY It's just three hours by train from Penn Station to the peaceful right-hand break at Turtle Cove and the smooth lefts at Ditch Plains. Make camp at the Atlantic Terrace hotel ($85–$385; 21 Surfside Pl., 631-668-2050), which overlooks an eponymous beach break fueled by hurricane swells spinning off the Carolinas. Work up an appetite for Harvest on Fort Pond (11 S. Emery St., 631-668-5574), nose-riding wizard Joel Tudor's favorite spot for monster helpings of seafood and sunset views. Read More: Outside
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05.02.05Montauk’s Adopted SonPercy Heath, whose forceful and buoyant bass playing anchored the Modern Jazz Quartet for its entire four-decade existence, died yesterday in Southampton, N.Y. He was 81. In recent years Mr. Heath spent most of his time at his house in Montauk, where he devoted himself to fishing. He carried a rod when touring with the Modern Jazz Quartet. "I made a living," he once said, "to go fishing." Read More: NY Times
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03.22.05Walla Walla by way of MontaukA native New Yorker who has made a career out of marketing and promoting communities may become Walla Walla's first chief executive officer of tourism. An official with Tourism Walla Walla, the nonprofit organization formed last year to lead promotions in the area, confirmed Michael Davidson has been selected for the job. Davidson was one of two finalists considered this month for tourism's top job. Three finalists were initially expected to visit the town, but at the last minute one of them accepted another position. He has been promoting tourism since 1987, when he was in charge of the Montauk (N.Y.) ...
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03.17.05Camp Hero’s ProgressGene Brickman, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Assistant Chief, Planning Division will speak this Friday, March 18, 2005 at 6:30 p.m. at John Duck’s Restaurant, 15 Prospect Street, Southampton (on North Main Street) about such topics as the progress made at Camp Hero and East Hampton Town’s shoreline legislation. That proposal would allow permanent hardened structures on Montauk’s beaches. More Info: Surf Riders LI
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01.04.05Cyril is on the wagon!CYRIL Fitzsimons, owner of the wildly popu lar Cyril's Fish House in Amagansett, shocked some Knicks fans at the Garden the other day. Cyril, 61, who'd been drinking since he was 15, has been on the wagon now for two months, the longest stint in his life without booze. But there he was for a game against the Charlotte Bobcats with his children Richard, 9, and Kimani, 11, look ing great. He was heading for Anguilla, where he also owns two res taurants. Read More: NY Post
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11.26.04LIRR Monitoring ProgramRecent Entries to the Montauk LIRR Activity Log Posts: 2004-07-09 @ 10:15pm -- Red "BUDWEISER" bar carts outside LIRR office trailer, looks like they just got done w/ a party there. Hope the LIRR crew is not drinking Budweiser before "driving" trains back West! 2004-06-14 @ 4:03am -- Super loud HORN BLASTING @ 4am CONTINUES! This seems like some kind personal vendetta and is w/o question an abuse of power, resulting from total lack of supervision. 2004-06-27 @ 5:53am -- 502 still HIGH - IDLING, Fuel Guage reads 1770 Gallons. That means the LIRR crew burned 50 GALLONS of deisel in about ...
