Randy Johnston, a former professor of accounting at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who will speak at the East Hampton Library on three consecutive Saturdays starting this week, moved to East Hampton Village in April and has been trying to raise awareness about environmental issues ever since.
Jerry Larsen, the former East Hampton Village police chief who is running next June for village mayor, offered proposals for revitalizing the commercial district last Thursday, at a campaign event with business owners at Babette’s restaurant.
The owners of nearly six acres of reserved land in Amagansett who have been prevented from cutting down trees, preparing a farm, or doing any other work there since the Peconic Land Trust initiated a lawsuit against them in August, asked the court last week to dismiss the suit and filed counterclaims against the land trust.
Linda and Jerry Sheehan of Springs have announced the engagement of their daughter, Shannon Lee Sheehan, to Nicholas Ray Samot, the son of Karen Drolet and Raymond Samot of East Hampton.
Robert G. Goelet, a business and civic leader, naturalist, and philanthropist, who with his wife, Alexandra Creel Goelet, had been steward of Gardiner’s Island in East Hampton since the 1980s, died on Oct. 8 at his home in New York City.
Eugene H. Thommen Jr., an aviation electrician who worked on the Apollo 11 moon landing mission, died on Oct. 9 at the University Hospital in San Antonio, Tex., of complications from a head injury sustained during a fall. The longtime East Hampton resident was 82.
Fire destroyed a Jeep during the morning commute in East Hampton on Thursday morning.
John C. Specht, a longtime local bayman who also worked as a carpenter, painter, and groundskeeper, died on Oct. 4 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital at the age of 78.
Joanne Conforti, an advertising executive who split her time between Manhattan and East Hampton, died at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan on Oct. 8. She was 75 and had Lewy body dementia.
AMAGANSETT LIBRARY
215 Main Street, Amagansett. 631-267-3810
Spiders story time and craft for ages 4 to 6, Saturday, 11 a.m. * Community service project: decorate for Halloween, Saturday, 1-3 p.m., and Sunday, 1:30-3:30 p.m. * Spooky movie night for families with 5 to 8-year-olds: "Toy Story of Terror" and "Casper's Halloween Special," Friday, Oct. 25, 6 p.m. Advance registration required for most programs.
