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PHOTOS: Georgica Beach Re-Opens

Lifeguards are now stationed at the beach for the rest of the summer, after it had been closed to swimming since last August.

re-opened as a lifeguard protected beach on Friday, after it was closed due to hit East Hampton in late August 2011, and it seems beach-goers couldn't be happier.

Though village officials decided to move lifeguards to Wiborg's Beach at the start of the 2012 season, Memorial Day weekend, when the beach failed to replenish itself over the spring, the .

East Hampton Village Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. and open it back up to swimming.

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