Letters to the Editor: 02.20.20
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Boys Basketball: Fatal Swing in C Tilt
“Wow!” a spectator brought to her feet at Friday’s Pierson-Southold county Class C championship game here said as the Settlers’ Nick Grathwohl with six seconds to go pulled up and drained an N.B.A. 3-pointer that torpedoed the stunned Whalers 62-60.
Knights Ride Off With the D Crown
Smithtown Christian had never until Friday night won a county boys basketball championship. The Knights did it, unhorsing Shelter Island 57-37 in East Hampton High School’s gym.
Girls Hoops to Address Turnovers, Two Wrestlers Place
Taking up most of one wall in her office, Krista Brooks, East Hampton High’s girls basketball coach, has stats from all the games so that her players can see where they stand vis-à-vis the positions they play.
Sports Briefs: 02.20.20
Kal Lewis, a Shelter Island senior, won the state qualifier 1,600-meter race at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood on Feb. 10 in 4 minutes and 24.87 seconds.
25 Years Ago in Bonac Sports: 02.20.20
Richard Cooney Sr., the East Hampton School District’s athletic director for the past 20 years, has announced that he will retire, according to the Feb. 9, 1995 edition of The Star.
The Lineup: 02.20.20
Little League clinics will be held on Saturday at East Hampton High School.
Nature Notes: The Sun Is King
If there were no sun there would be stars, but no East Hampton Star. The latest calculations by astronomers, astrophysicists, and mathematicians is that the sun is 4.61 billion years old and has another five billion years to go before all of the hydrogen gas capacity is used up.
Tap Dancing Through History
Tap dancing has made a big comeback in recent years, and two upcoming events will incorporate the dance form to illustrate important events in American history.
Lee Hanson Has a Lot on His Plate
After 26 years in the kitchen, Lee Hanson, a longtime Hamptons weekender, with his co-chef Riad Nasr have worked in some of the most buzzworthy restaurants in New York: Balthazar, Minetta Tavern, Pastis, and Schiller’s Liquor Bar. They opened Frenchette in TriBeCa in 2018.