At about 7 a.m. on July 30, a beachgoer spotted some curious debris in the water at Main Beach, and called police, saying it looked like “safety markings” attached to “something floating in the water.” Police used binoculars and saw it was a cluster of balloons.
Art workshops, puppet shows, movies, and performances for the kids and families.
The Springs Improvement Society’s 87th annual Fisherman’s Fair will take place on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the Ashawagh Hall grounds, with a children’s area for games and crafts, food and craft vendors, a restaurant raffle, live music, and, inside the hall, the Artists of the Springs invitational exhibition, which will be on view through Sunday.
Jhony Chumi-Rodas, 30, died on Sunday night when his Dodge Ram pickup truck hit a traffic light stanchion on Route 24, Southampton Town police said.
Services will be held on Saturday for Jhony Chumi-Rodas, who died in a car crash in Flanders on Sunday night.
Two sides are circling each other in regard to a new, consolidated town shellfish hatchery off Gann Road at Three Mile Harbor. Untangling this will help guide what has been an excessively contentious debate toward an amicable resolution.
It seems somehow crazy that Donald Trump is to arrive on the East End tomorrow for a fund-raiser, after two mass shootings within hours of each other, as if nothing were wrong.
Like many of you, I have been glued to television-news debates about mass shootings and what can, or should be, done to stop them. Gun control is a frequent topic as the contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination face the cameras. But my attention is drawn to my desk, where the focus is narrow and a book called “Semicolon” by Cecelia Watson sits alongside one I have mentioned before, Mary Morris’s amusing and astute “Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen.”
Over dinner on Sunday, the subject turned to sharks. Since it was the Discovery Channel’s annual Shark Week blitz, this was not surprising.
