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Mike Myers, who is closing up shop after more than 30 years as a mechanic at the East Hampton Airport.

Mechanic retires after decades at airport

Over the last 30 years, a lot has changed at East Hampton Airport. The number of planes flying in and out has ballooned more than 1,000 percent. Small single-engine puddle jumpers have taken a back seat in the take-off traffic line up to charter flights, helicopters and corporate jets. A runway has been closed, lawsuits filed and a seemingly endless parade of critics and defenders of aircraft owners have been locked in public warfare.

But through it all, one constant has remained—until now: Mike Myers. Smiling as he tools across the property in his beat up golf cart, quick with a joke and befriended by everyone from movie stars to maintenance men, Mr. Myers has been a fixture at the airport since opening his aircraft maintenance business, Myers Aero Services in 1977.

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LIPA working overtime to finish new lines

Long Island Power Authority crews were working overtime this weekend on Scuttle Hole Road in Water Mill, attempting to finish installing a 7.5-mile underground transmission line from Southampton Village to a substation on the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike.

LIPA had originally hoped to have the line in place by the Fourth of July weekend to avoid potential power outages during a holiday weekend that traditionally marks a peak of power usage. But LIPA spokesman Ed Dumas said this week that this weekend’s mild forecast—with the top temperatures in the high 70s—will work to the utility’s favor.

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“Mary Emmerling’s Beach Cottages” features four East End properties, including the one featured in this photograph from the book, Marsia and Leonard Holzer’s Water Mill cottage.

Celebrating beach cottages big and small

Lifelong beach lover and best-selling author Mary Emmerling has come out with a new book that features four local homes, “Beach Cottages: At Home by the Sea.”

The former East Ender who called the Hamptons home for 30 years—until 1998—has authored more than 20 books. In a recent interview, she said that she came up with the idea for “Beach Cottages” because of her love of the beach and the simplicity of true seaside cottages.

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Matt Smith struck out four batters in two innings of relief for the Whalers in a 1-0 loss to Lehigh Valley on Saturday.

Whalers drop two in doubleheader

In a doubleheader played in Southampton on Saturday, the Hampton Whalers were defeated twice by the Lehigh Valley Catz to fall to 7-14 in the Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League.

The Whalers were handled 7-1 in the first game before falling 1-0 in the second game.

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Sonny Landreth back at Talkhouse after releasing blockbuster collaboration album

There are rock legends and then there are out-and-out guitar gods, and Sonny Landreth, a wizard of the slide guitar, has combined both on his latest studio release, “From the Reach,” a collaboration featuring Mr. Landreth in duets with world-renowned talent and one guitar deity.

Mr. Landreth, who will perform at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett on Tuesday, July 8, brought an impressive group of musicians into the fold for his ninth studio album, which was released in May by Landfall Records. The result is a compilation of varying styles that have become emblematic over the past four decades.

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