The East Hampton Town Justice race to replace Lisa R. Rana, who, after 20 years on the bench, is retiring, pits David Filer, running as a Democrat, against Brian Lester on the Republican ticket. Both men are fathers, both boast of family ties tracing back to East Hampton’s earliest settlers, and both have had long careers in the law.
Wastewater management, renewable energy, housing, traffic, and migrants were among the topics addressed in Monday’s debate between candidates for the Suffolk County Legislature’s Second District, hosted by the League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, Shelter Island, and the North Fork. Manny Vilar of Springs, the chairman of the East Hampton Town Republican Committee and a retired state parks police officer, is the Republican candidate. His Democratic opponent is Ann Welker, a Southampton Town trustee.
On Friday around 3 p.m., a man walked out of the Sweet Spot, the new ice cream place on Newtown Lane in East Hampton Village, without paying for his milkshake.
This receipt, dated Oct. 21, 1703, records the first annual payment by East Hampton settlers to the Montaukett people. The payment amounted to a rental fee for the use of grazing lands on the Montauk peninsula.
Before the water turns to ice here on the East End, the local fishing scene seems to be holding up just fine. Bass, bluefish, tuna, sea bass, porgies, and blackfish are hungry and on the feed.
As of earlier this week, the East Hampton boys volleyball team was riding a five-game winning streak, and its coach was anticipating making the playoffs. Plus much more from the world of Bonac sports, from cross-country to girls tennis.
Cristian Candemir, a 29-year-old Montauker and Starbucks barista, is in training for the inaugural America’s Strongest Man under-200 championships in Orlando, Fla., next month.
The East Hampton High School boys soccer team is now in contention to win the League VI championship, and the field hockey squad continued on the upswing by beating Shoreham-Wading River, which came in at 11-1.
Frederick William Yardley, a retired Springs School history teacher and administrator who was at the district for 29 years, died at home in East Hampton on Saturday. He was 88.
James Winkler, an architectural draftsman and a talented flamenco and classical guitarist, died at home in Springs on Friday. He was 89 and had Parkinson’s disease.
