Letters to the Editor for April 20, 2023
Kudos and complaints: It’s The Star’s weekly raft of letters.
The Way It Was for April 20, 2023
Twenty-five years ago, as the Energy Department announced “significant progress” in forming a community advisory council at Brookhaven National Laboratory, an East Hampton activist group demanded closer attention to the radioactive contamination leaking from the lab into the groundwater. And more ripped from The Star of yore.
Recorded Deeds 04.20.23
The latest batch of real estate moves across the South Fork.
Anthony G. Stavropoulos
Anthony G. Stavropoulos, who owned Anthony’s Pancake House in Montauk for 68 years, died on April 6 at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton. He was 94.
Phyllis Raphael, Author and Essayist
Phyllis Raphael of Amagansett and New York City, a writer, died on March 28 at her apartment on the Upper West Side. She was 87.
Clorinda Gorman, Interior Designer
Clorinda Gorman, a colorful resident of East Hampton whose professional name as a designer was Clorinda Whitcomb, died on Friday at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. She was 94.
Elaine G. Weisburg
Word has been received of the death of Elaine Greene Weisburg, who had a long career in the magazine industry, at home in San Diego on Nov. 23. Ms. Weisburg, formerly of Sag Harbor and Manhattan, had been ill for a brief time. She was 98.
Neighbors Sue to Stop Lighted Pickleball in Herrick Park
A couple who live next to Herrick Park in East Hampton Village filed an Article 78 petition in Suffolk County Supreme Court on Sunday seeking to stop the village from building lighted pickleball courts in the park. They also say plans for an ice-skating rink and a "concert venue" in the park as part of a later phase of construction would violate both the procedural requirements of the State Environmental Quality Review Act and the covenant language in the deed to the park.
Three Days to Recycle Old Technology
Earth Day is Saturday, and GeekHampton on Bay Street in Sag Harbor is celebrating with three days of e-waste recycling. Starting Thursday, you can drop off your old computer gear between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.
Springs Appoints New Principal
Erik Kelt, a Shelter Island native who has been a principal in New Orleans, is coming home to the East End take on that role in Springs starting in July.