Elizabeth K. Fonseca
Elizabeth Kaplan Fonseca died at home in East Hampton on Dec. 19 after a long illness. She was 93.
Immersions Usher In the New Year
A joyous, comradely feeling was evident at the East Hampton Hurricane swim team’s New Year’s Day plunge at East Hampton Village’s Main Beach and later at the annual plunge in Wainscott. Both raised money for food pantries here.
At Hub 44, Shelly Schaffer Goes to Bat for the Kids
While the handsome high-ceilinged 6,000-square-foot building behind the popular Round Swamp Farm in East Hampton could have feathered a nest egg, Shelly Snyder Schaffer, its owner, preferred instead that it become a year-round hub for young ballplayers, boys and girls looking to up their baseball, softball, or lacrosse games.
Hoop Teams Set Sights on Playoffs
On their return this week from the holiday break, the East Hampton, Pierson, and Bridgehampton High School boys basketball teams seem to have the playoffs in their sights.
Long Island Is Republican Country
The message the Republican Party offers Long Island voters centers on a distrust of government, as well as the coded racism in its fixation on crime.
M.T.A. Budget Hole Could Threaten Shuttles
Beginning in 2019, the so-named South Fork Commuter Connection was supposed to take a bite out of the weekday morning and afternoon “trade parade” of bumper-to-bumper work vans and delivery trucks.
The Mast-Head: Switching to Green
I am now on my second plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, at a combined gas and electric of 100 or more miles per gallon the way I drive it.
Gristmill: After Hopper
Adventures at the Whitney, on the High Line, and in a lost New York.
Point of View: Positive You’re Negative?
I had no Covid symptoms, but that apparently, according to what I read, wasn’t necessarily a cause for celebration.
Guestwords: Gifts That Keep Giving
From our correspondent in Pennsylvania comes a tribute to an illustrator for 50 straight years of Christmas cards that are works or art.