The Case of the Caruso Jewels
Item of the Week: From the East Hampton Library Long Island Collection
Teresa Barsdis Boothe
Teresa Barsdis Boothe, who was raised in East Hampton, died at the Aurora Senior Living of Manokin in Princess Anne, Md., on May 29. She was 90 and had been ill.
Marjorie Ludlow, 101
Marjorie Reese Ludlow, an active member of the Bridgehampton community and its Methodist Church, and a Southampton Hospital volunteer for more than three decades, died last Thursday at her Bridgehampton home. She was 101.
For Trudy Barnard
Services for Gertrude Barnard of East Hampton will be held tomorrow at the First Baptist Church in Southampton, with a viewing at 11 a.m. and the funeral at noon. Burial will follow at Calverton National Cemetery, and a gathering will be held back at the church at 4 p.m.
A May Wedding in Tennessee
Christian Tyler Schenck, the son of Marcia and Christopher Schenck of East Hampton, was married to Brittany Taylor Greene on May 19 in Lebanon, Tenn. Jeannie Hunter officiated.
Richard Davis
Richard Guenther Davis, who served as executive vice president and director of research for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, died in Southampton on April 20 after a brief illness. A resident of Amagansett since the early 1970s, he was 85.
Blue-Green Algae Found in Wainscott and Water Mill
Cyanobacteria blooms, which are more commonly known as blue-green algae and pose health risks to people and animals, have been found in Wainscott Pond in that hamlet and Mill Pond in Water Mill, the Suffolk County Department of Health Services announced Wednesday.
Recorded Deeds: 06.13.19
AMAGANSETT
East Hampton Housing Authority to Gansett Meadow Housing, 531 Montauk Highway, 4.65 acres, April 23, $4,100,000.
A. and I. Tepper to M. Perlmutter, 101 Meeting House Lane, .5 acre, April 12, $4,550,000.
EAST HAMPTON
J.S. McLaughlin to C. Cargua and Leon, I, 49 Berryman Street, .55 acre (vacant), April 15, $410,000.
Important Questions Remain on Duryea's Settlement Deal
The town lawyer at the center of a controversy over a lawsuit brought by the new owner of Duryea’s in Montauk has departed for parts unknown, but this is hardly the end of the troubling matter. Many questions remain about who knew what when in an improper — and possibly illegal — settlement arrangement he signed.
On Global Warming, It's a Matter of Degrees
Degrees have an image problem. In the struggle to control global warming, we are told that unless the Earth stays within 2 degrees Celsius of 19th-century levels, catastrophes both natural and political will arise.