This year’s election for the board of the Amagansett Library will be held from March 1 to March 19. Interested candidates who are residents of the hamlet and can commit to monthly meetings have been asked to submit a letter of interest and a short bio by Feb. 23. Those materials can be sent to [email protected], mailed to the library at P.O. Box 2550, Amagansett 11930, or dropped off in person.
The dearth of medical care here was one of the most serious issues facing the community, said Henry Murray, who recently announced his retirement as chairman of the foundation that runs the East Hampton Healthcare Center. The facility is celebrating its 20th anniversary.
This 1997 photograph from the Springs Historical Society shows the exterior of the John Edwards House on Duck Creek Farm off Three Mile Harbor Road. The two-story “half house” is believed to have been built by John Edwards (1750-1806) after he bought the property from John and Mary Gardiner in 1795.
Charles Seymour Bullock Jr., a magazine publisher who co-founded the Dunemere Associates real estate firm in East Hampton, died at home in Palm Beach, Fla., on Saturday. He was 89.
Dorothy Kessen of Springs, a skilled baker who worked for many years at Brent’s General Store and Miller’s Fuel, died of a sudden Covid-19 pneumonia infection at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Jan. 23. She was 85.
Thomas J. McCabe, who was drawn to Montauk in the early 1950s by the sea and his love of fishing, died on Jan. 26 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. The cause was cancer and heart failure.
Margaret Mary (Peg) Calabrese of East Hampton and the Villages, Fla., a vice president of human resources for the Bank of the Hamptons for more than a decade, died of congestive heart failure at home here last Thursday. She was 83.
Richard J. Hausman, who owned and operated the Sands Motel in Montauk that his parents and brother had built in 1951, died on Jan. 29 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. The cause was chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
The family of Patricia B. Gilchrest of Montauk and, most recently, Loudonville, N.Y., will receive visitors tomorrow between 10 a.m. and noon at the Ralston, Lippincott, Hasbrouck, and Ingrassia Funeral Home in Middletown, N.Y.
It’s gull season on the East End.
