Tag: Montauk (NY)

Montauketts’ Bid for N.Y. State Recognition Is Vetoed for the 5th Time

For years, a Native American tribe from the picturesque East End of Long Island has fought bitterly for formal state recognition, a designation that was stripped away more than a century ago by court decisions that are now widely considered racist. The New York State Legislature passed a bill four times in a decade to […]

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A Montauk Fisherman Faces Prison Over 200,000 Pounds of Fluke

It was just before dawn when Chris Winkler, a fisherman in Montauk, N.Y., set off on his trawler, the New Age. A longhaired surfer who looks far younger than his 63 years, Mr. Winkler was in flip-flops and shorts, trailed by Murphy, a good-natured Irish water spaniel who is usually his only company. But on […]

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