More Money for Springs School
The Springs School District got a financial boost from New York State this week when Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. stopped by the school to present a check for an extra $50,000 from state coffers.
Sag Harbor District Overestimated State Aid
After auditors said late last year that the Sag Harbor School District had missed out on hundreds of thousands of dollars in New York State funding for summer special education programs, district administrators came to a different conclusion: They had overestimated the amount of money they were due to collect.
In East Hampton Schools Solar Panels Are on the Way
The East Hampton School District took its first step this week toward installing solar panels and other energy-efficiency upgrades, having recently received the go-ahead from the State Education Department.
Kids Culture 08.08.19
Children’s Fair
Nearly two dozen children’s book authors will be on hand Sunday at the East Hampton Library’s free Children’s Fair at Amagansett Farm. Among them will be Billy Baldwin with “Story Glass,” Adam Osterweil with “The Baseball Card Kid,” and Oksana and Julia Zbarsky with “Do You Know Where the Freckle Goes?” The fair will also include games, rides, crafts, bounce houses, and live performances, all taking place from 2 to 5:30 p.m. Amagansett Farm is at 555 Montauk Highway.
D.A Pennebaker, Filmmaking Giant
In any inventory of the most influential documentary filmmakers, certain names inevitably appear: Dziga Vertov, Robert Flaherty, Marcel Ophuls, Frederick Wiseman, Michael Apted, Errol Morris, Albert and David Maysles, and the Maysles’ contemporary and onetime associate, D.A. Pennebaker.
For Daniel Otto
A funeral Mass for Daniel Otto will be said on Saturday at noon at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton.
Ines Wildner-Fox
Ines Angelica Wildner-Fox, a former teacher at the Montauk School who started the school’s English as a foreign language program and co-founded the hamlet’s food pantry, died of pulmonary fibrosis on July 17 at Hope Hospice in Lehigh Acres, Fla.
Mother’s Lawyer to Mount Psychiatric Defense in Twins’ Murder
The attorney for Tenia Campbell of Medford, who is accused of killing her twin toddlers in Montauk in June, has formally submitted notice that he is working on a psychiatric defense.
Coke Busts in Montauk
An officer on foot patrol heard yelling and saw a man sitting in his car with the interior lights on and the door open. Another officer stopped a car without headlights on. Two felony cocaine possession charges followed.
Three Times the Limit
Just after Friday midnight, an East Hampton Town police officer arrested an alleged drunken driver whose brand-new Mercedes had been clocked at 91 miles per hour on Town Lane in East Hampton, three times the 30 m.p.h. limit there.