See 1998 for older archived listings.

9/14 "Can you believe it? A couple of page-turners, one affair, and, wham  --  it's Labor Day". The New Yorker.
9/6 The last hurrah of the season. A long weekend that was long on rainy promises but insisted on ample sunshine. Visitors were out in strong numbers and Ocean Beach merchants started putting out the "Sale" signs. Good shopping ahead! Check out our new "History" sections on Fire Island and Ocean Beach.
8/27 Eating out? Please e-mail us your experiences. Good - Bad - Indifferent! Any community. Let's prepare ourselves for the Cherry Grove Pageant and Tea Dance. Tickets are required. Check the Calendar for details.
8/18 The calendar is full with activities. Been to Sunken Forrest?
7/20 Mark your Calendars for the Fire Island Association Summer Meeting on 7/31 11:00am at the OB Community House. Click this link for the interesting agenda. Meet some of the people that help "shape" Fire Island.
7/14 Have you checked out the Lighthouse? Climbed the tower? Participated in the Nature Talks? Check out the Calendar of activities.
7/3 Kids hanging around the house this summer, eating junk food and playing Pokemon? Well why not get them reading books that they'll like for a change. Click on this link for more information: READING LISTS FOR KIDS
6/28 Getting bored on the Beach? There's plenty do in Ocean Beach in July. Check out the calendar for all listings.
6/15 New Bay Front Listing in Fair Harbor under House for Sale. Check it out!
6/2 Three days of "10" weather! Sunny and warm with cooling breezes off the ocean. The social calendar heated up with several parties. 
Preparations are underway for the Fair Harbor Pine Walk Fair (7/3 11to6) benefiting the Fresh Air Fund. Volunteers and donations are still needed (Contact Helen Kornblau at 583-8874). Be sure to mark your calendars and visit.  
5/16 T -6 The big move-in weekend is near! It was a gorgeous weekend, but judging from the activity and noise around the community few people had time to enjoy the weather. Instead many home-owner were busy getting their houses ready.
Scouts, hungry for shopping, reported that all stores are ready and that many fine things can be purchased. Summer is here!
5/3 The beach still looks a bit battered in OB while Corneilles is a bit reduced but still wide. Saturday saw a lengthy OB Board meeting. "Sparks" flew over the bidding for the new garbage contract. A trustee was asked to excuse himself from voting, but didn't. The partie's lawyers threatened to sue. More to come on this subject. The June vote will contain a referendum for a defined benefit program for the OB Volunteer Fire Fighters. Cost is expected to run at $ 0.115 per thousand assessed value. Think global, vote local!
4/26 The ferries are getting more crowded! Summer must be nigh.  Please don't forget the OB Village Board meeting on Saturday at 10am. Please see Calendar-Events as the calendar is beginning to fill.
4/19 Wonderful weekend. For you windsurfer: Sunday was a wonderful 5.5 from due west. Steve and myself enjoyed the brisk winds and at times the swell breaking on the recently built up second bar. Reaching in the flats was grand.
4/19 Jerry Stoddard reports of a very interesting LICA meeting. In fact it was so interesting that most people stayed the entire day. Read here more about it at a later date.
4/14 Don't forget the Long Island Coastal Association (LICA) meeting on 4/16 (Saturday). New pages on this site include information on the LICA and also the Fire Island Association (FIA). Please see what is being done to protect our beaches.
4/4 Great sunny weekend. Houses are being fixed up and readied for the season.
4/1 Important meeting: The Long Island Coastal Alliance annual meeting on April 16, Speakers include many policy makers and administrators including Senator Forbes. See details on this link.
3/20 For those of you suffering from Lyme, I have added an article by Cathy Morrissey who is a long-time sufferer and who spends a great deal of time educating and trying to influence legislature to deal with Lyme and HMO's. If you have anything to add from the Long Island region, please e-mail me. I'd like to hear from you.
3/13 Realtors report high levels of activity and even a few home-sales. Welcome to all new home-owners and renters. Share activity is revving up!
3/12 Thanks to Bob Fasciano for his interesting article of how to protect the exterior of a Fire Island Home.
2/21/99 Had the opportunity to visit the Island on Saturday. The Nor'easter was cancelled and it turned out to be a glorious day. I took some snap-shots of surfers that couldn't resist the swells on light north-wind. The beach looks a bit battered in Ocean Beach. The  town had placed Geo-Tubes (huge long bags filled with sand) to protect the dunes. Usually the beach comes back by summer. Everybody was busy. The Realtors are showing what's left and even a few house-sales were made. All the contractors were busy taking advantage of the weather. Many houses were worked on to improve for the coming season. For a quick summary of the Town Board meeting click here.
2/19/99 Sorry, we were not available for a little while. The "Out" occurred because we moved to a new computer providing us with new advanced capabilities. If you saw the movie  "4th of July" you may recall how our cigar-smoking heroes injected the alien mothership with a virus that filtered down from the mother ship to the sateliteships. Similar here, the new address needs to filter down from the domain name authority to the hundreds of sub computer used as "roadmap" to www.Ocean-Beach.com. It may take a day. Look in the future for exiting new features on this site. Of course address www.Ocean-Beach.com remains the same.
2/12/99 Thanks to our well trained volunteer fire fighters and some wet weather a major loss of houses was avoided in Saltaire. An ocean-side home on Navy caught fire and fueled by strong winds severely damaged a house adjacent to it. If it hadn't been for the quick and skillful response of the Fire Companies from Ocean Beach, Fair Harbor, Saltaire, and Kismet many more houses downwind would have burned. A big Thanks to all our Volunteer Fire Fighters on Fire Island, who gladly will protect all of our houses, no matter which community.
2/6/99 More Health News: Another new test for lyme is in the early stages of testing and still subject to FDA approval. The test promises to detect lyme very early on in the infection. Developed by UConn and financed by Bio-Investigations the test looks for cell changes in the presence of lyme-causing bacteria.
1/17/99 Learn more about Fair Harbor at our sister-site.
1/16/99 On the Health-front important news for all you lyme sufferers: Dr. Steven Phillips of Ridgefield, CT together with others for the first time ever was able to cultivate Lyme-Bacteria. Read more about this important develpoment and it's implications on the Ocean Beach Lyme pages.
Now is the time to place your advertisents for your Ocean Beach and Corneille shares or rentals for only $10.-
1/2/99 Happy New Year from all of us at Ocean-Beach.com !!!!