After triumphing over the county's top seed, Half Hollow Hills West, in a 5-1 rout Wednesday afternoon, East Hampton High School's boys soccer team will play in a county final for the first time since 2014, facing Harborfields at Diamond in the Pines in Coram on Saturday.
Two opportunities to witness the fruits of Lonnie Holley's work of the past year are here, with exhibitions opening at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill on Saturday and the South Etna Montauk Foundation on May 1.
Early on in an effort begun by a Star intern to document the history of slavery in East Hampton, one of the project’s advisers said he could draw a direct line from omission of enslaved people of African heritage from the American founding story to police killings of Black men today.
For the first time, there is a baseline on nitrogen levels from which the several mandates can be evaluated. Before now, sampling for nitrogen was inadequate, when it took place at all. This created a situation in which policy got out ahead of science.
The Montauk Hammerhead Building team trounced the Amagansett Fire Department in Little League action on Monday. I should know; I was among the spectators at Lions Field trying to keep warm as a chilly westerly wind blew in off the ocean. In an email to parents earlier in the day, the Amagansett coaches had told us to dress warmly. No one dressed warmly enough, especially on the visitors’ side of the field.
Linguists and writers of a certain pompousness (ahem, me) like to debate the relative euphoniousness of words at dinner parties. Have you heard this thing about the most beautiful phrase in the English language being “cellar door”? What about "defenestration" or "lollygag," "twilight" or "jubilee"?
Once more unto the darkened theater — for escape or togetherness?
And so, we too have acceded — inevitably, it would seem — to the fact that Afghanistan is “the graveyard of empires.”
Science can’t prove or disprove God, but I nevertheless believe that its findings can contribute greatly to our quest for meaning.
Brent’s General Store, the popular deli and catering business in Amagansett, is on the market for an undisclosed amount, according to Hal Zwick, a Compass real estate agent, who holds the listing with his colleague Jeffrey Sztorc.
For the past 34 years, the store has been owned by Artie Seekamp and his longtime business partner, David Winthrop. Mr. Seekamp declined to be interviewed about the sale.
