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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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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, Fires, Personal Service, National Weather Service, Weather Warnings
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California wildfires: Evacuated residents wait for word
Hundreds of residents who fled their homes Thursday to escape a fast-moving brush fire in Ventura County that burned more than 8,000 acres waited for daylight to see if they could go back to their communities. While some evacuations were lifted Thursday...Tags: Fires, Robert J. Lopez, Methamphetamine (drug)
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California wildfires: Cal State Channel Islands students evacuated
This post has been corrected. See below for details.Dozens of evacuees clustered in small groups around the sanctuary of Camarillo’s Calvary Nexus church. Some were picking at paper plates of ziti with meat sauce that had been doled out by American Red Cross volunteers. Most couldn’t take their...Tags: American Red Cross, Teaching and Learning, Students
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Canada: Fun and fundraising go hand-in-glove in Banff
Pack your parka and gloves plus your binoculars, camera and autograph book and head to Alberta at the end of January for some winter fun and celebrity-spotting in the Canadian Rockies. The Fairmont Banff Springs Sports Invitational will draw Hollywood...
Tags: Lyle Lovett, Marcia Gay Harden, Christie Brinkley, William Shatner, Celebrities
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Trina Turk pairs up with Banana Republic for summer collection
Los Angeles Times Fashion Critic[This post has been corrected. See note at bottom for details.] When Banana Republic was looking for someone to collaborate on a summer collection inspired by Palm Springs, Trina Turk was the one to call. The L.A.-based designer, known for playful...Tags: Services and Shopping, Banana Republic, College Sports, Architecture, Barney's New York Incorporated
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PASSINGS: Mary Jean Pew; R.B Greaves
Mary Jean Pew Head of Catholic college, aide to Jerry Brown Mary Jean Pew, 82, a former nun who taught history and government at Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles then served as the school's acting president before it closed in 1980, died...Tags: Government, Soul (genre), Roman Catholicism, Religion and Belief, Lung Cancer
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Fashion News: Purple reigned on Tony Awards red carpet
All The RageActresses Laura Bell Bundy and Bernadette Peters were both resplendent in purple on the Tony Awards red carpet on Sunday. Matthew McConaughey wed long-time love Camila Alves on Saturday. Lea Michele and Cory Monteith were coy at the Chrysalis Butterfly... -
Banana Republic Trina Turk Collection launches today
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At Coachella festival, music and fashion are a natural fit
Los Angeles Times Fashion CriticAs the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival expands from one weekend to two, so do the fashion and music marketing opportunities in Southern California. Labels such as Levi's, H&M, Lacoste, Armani A|X, Mulberry and Madewell (J. Crew's little sister)...Tags: Fool's Gold (music group), Aerosmith (music group), Entertainment, Tommy Hilfiger, Rock and Roll (genre)
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Palm Springs revival has deals for a song (or close to it)
The Rat Pack lives again — or at least Palm Springs, once the party pad of Sinatra and the boys, does.
The Coachella Valley city, which had devolved into a down-at-the-heels caricature of a Hollywood playground, has reinvented itself: Its retro-...Tags: Museums, Entertainment, Hotels and Accommodations, Natural Resources, Los Angeles Hotels
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Color My World
LA Times MagazinePalm Springs’ new kid on the hotel block, the Saguaro, is a bright and happy place... -
Boys' basketball: Katin Reinhardt is MVP for Mater Dei
Varsity Times InsiderKatin Reinhardt scored 20 points, making all four of his three-point shot attempts, and was selected tournament MVP as Santa Ana Mater Dei (11-1) defeated New York Lincoln, 76-69, in the championship game of the MaxPreps tournament in Palm Springs.......
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