Climate change is a fact. Science tells us that atmospheric conditions known as greenhouse gases from human activity are the cause. Electricity production generates about a quarter of emissions, trailing only transportation. This is why last week’s Public Service Commission approval of a key component of the planned South Fork Wind farm is so important. The project would be the first large-scale offshore wind power source in the United States (up to three times the size of Block Island Wind, which came online in 2016), paving the way for more and larger turbine installations.

As the availability of Covid-19 vaccines improves, we should take a moment to acknowledge the volunteers who have so generously helped get shots into so many arms. This comes at a risky time because the dual effects of pandemic fatigue and a sense, rightly or wrongly, that its end is in sight have led to many people letting down their guard.

In my salad days in Manhattan, my friends and I would play a barroom game in which we judged people by their footwear: a sort of reverse fortune telling in which you observed the sartorial selection and made a Gypsy-like pronouncement about who the wearer was. This was the 1990s. An adult male sporting unscuffed Top-Siders with no socks was judged to be a recent grad of Cornell or Duke — possibly Dartmouth — lately arrived on Wall Street, who still kept a poster of Pamela Anderson from “Baywatch” on his wall.

I had to say I wasn’t breastfeeding in order for my CVS questionnaire to be accepted, but, what the hell, I’ll say anything to get a shot.

The one I’m to have Sunday, at Mattituck’s CVS, will be my second, and then, two weeks hence, I presume I’ll be home free. Mary is to have hers at the same place the day after mine. Why they couldn’t do us both at the same time I don’t know, but we consider ourselves lucky to get them.

We’ll continue to wear masks and to wash our hands more often than we would have in the past, of course, wanting, as ever, to be good citizens.

AMAGANSETT

Christina and Neal Gabler to Matthew and Nadine Abramcyk, 8 Dennistoun Drive, Dec. 22, $2,010,000.

Jeffrey and Sheila Britz to David and Kyra Barry, 169 Atlantic Avenue, Feb. 11, $9,500,000.

BRIDGEHAMPTON

Paula Gottret to Matthew and Nancy Bromberg, 321 Paul’s Lane, Dec. 16, $6,995,000.

47 Sams Creek Acq L.L.C. to Metta Hampton Acquisition L.L.C., 47 Sams Creek Road, Dec. 21, $10,200,000.

15 Kellis L.L.C. to Angela and Neil Burgess, 15 Kellis Way, Dec. 29, $6,600,000.

Lives on the Line
East Hampton
March 18, 2021

Dear East Hampton Star,