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Beginnings: The first crude houses in Springs - a gem of woods, sparkling water and verdant salt meadows around Accabonac Harbor - are believed to have been built in 1649, a year after the founding of the Town of East Hampton. Tradition has it that the first families were workers from nearby Gardiners Island and squatters from New England who found the soil terrible for farming but the fishing profitable.
Beginnings: The first crude houses in Springs - a gem of woods, sparkling water and verdant salt meadows around Accabonac Harbor - are believed to have been built in 1649, a year after the founding of the Town of East Hampton. Tradition has it that the first families were workers from nearby Gardiners Island and squatters from New England who found the soil terrible for farming but the fishing profitable.
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George T. Frush Jr., 71
George T. Frush Jr., 71, of Warfordsburg, Pa., died Saturday, April 13, 2013, at his home. Born June 18, 1941, in New York, he was the son of the late George T. Frush Sr. and Norma Bosch Frush. He retired from Mack Trucks Inc., Hagerstown, Md. He...Tags: Mack Trucks, Inc., Shirley, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland)
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Tri-State briefs
Travel club presents donation to Starting Points MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — A group of travel enthusiasts known as the “Wild and Wonderfuls,” a travel club from Berkeley Springs, W.Va., recently presented Starting Points of Morgan County...Tags: New York City, Human Interest, Trips and Vacations, Travel
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Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down - Dec. 1
Thumbs up to the members, families and leaders of Franklin County 4-H, who over the past few weeks collected donations and items to assist those affected by Superstorm Sandy. The items will be delivered to a former Shippensburg, Pa., resident who lives in...Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Franklin County (Pennsylvania), Wildlife
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Barbara J. Sherman
Born May 25, 1924, in Cumberland, Md., she is survived by her daughters, Vicki Taylor-Breheim (Karl) of Pensacola, Fla., and Elizabeth (Betsy) Taylor of Clarksburg, Md.; her sister, Ruth Orndorff of Largo, Fla.; and her brother, W. Merle Cornelius Jr....
Tags: Anglicanism, Clearwater (Pinellas, Florida), Education, Human Interest, Largo
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Some test questions in New York schools are just bananas
Two lamp posts are complaining about their placement on a city street: “Other lamp posts overlook parks and flower gardens; so why do we have to be bolted down in the middle of the slums?” one says. “Yeah,” agrees the other....
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Eileen Swain, 73
Eileen Swain, age 73, of Hancock, died Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011, at her home. Born Oct. 3, 1937, in Fulton County, Pa., she was the daughter of the late Chester and Isabelle Ray Bishop, and the widow of James W. Swain who died Feb. 19, 1999. She was a 1955...Tags: New York City, Dollar General Corporation, Homes, Jason Ward, American Legion
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Dorothy J. Karper, 91
DEC. 28, 1919-MARCH 2, 2011 Dorothy Jean Karper, 91, formerly of 914 Guilford Ave., Hagerstown, Md., and a resident of Ravenwood Nursing Home, died on Wednesday, March 2, 2011, at Meritus Medical Center near Hagerstown. Born Dec. 28, 1919, in...Tags: Washington (U.S. state), Human Interest, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Christianity, Roman Catholicism
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Crystal meth and more than $13,000 seized during I-81 traffic stop
Police seized more than $13,000 and a golf ball-size amount of crystal methamphetamine from a vehicle stopped for speeding on Interstate 81 early Tuesday, according to Berkeley County Magistrate Court records. Two Georgia men, Steven Paul Mitcheltree,...Tags: Defendants, Prisons, Crime, Law and Justice, Methamphetamine (drug), New York
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New York bettors score big with Oxbow at Preakness Stakes
Baltimore Sun Media GroupA pair of racing aficionados from Saratoga Springs, N.Y., spent Saturday watching the early races at Pimlico, then they put their observations to use to score a massive payday in the Preakness. Joe Cavallo, 26, and Stephanie Rafferty, 21, hit the Pick 4...Tags: Kentucky Derby, Pimlico, National Aquarium Baltimore, Lifestyle and Leisure, Preakness Stakes
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Fleeing the flames in Southern California
Terry Doebler woke up choking from the smoke. Doebler, 80, and her 82-year-old husband, Paul — retired New York transplants living in the Camarillo Springs neighborhood of Ventura County — had seen brushfires before in their 15 years there,...
Tags: House Building, Personal Service, Weather Warnings, Guiberson Fire (2009), Fires
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