Peggy Virginia Wilford of East Hampton and Hernando, Fla., a social worker, died on March 24 at Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead at the age of 87. A funeral will be held on Friday, April 5, at St. Ann’s Episcopal Church in Bridgehampton.
Timothy Robert Reilly, a brick mason and wood sculptor who grew up on Three Mile Harbor Road, died in Alabama on March 21. He was 78.
Stuart Weiss of East Hampton, a photographer and bicycle enthusiast, died on March 16 at East End Hospice’s Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. He was 89.
A memorial for Jaki Jackson, a yoga teacher here for many years who lived in Springs, will be held on Saturday at 10 a.m. at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church.
East Hampton High’s baseball team and the Southampton-based South Fork boys lacrosse team, with a lineup of half a dozen Bonackers, could boast of 3-0 records as of earlier this week. East Hampton’s girls lacrosse team was 2-0.
“That kids from these small towns, from Sag Harbor, East Hampton, and Southampton, can now go toe-to-toe with the established programs up the Island is quite something,” in the words of one coach.
College will have to wait for Chase Lieder, the 18-year-old champion surfer from Montauk. He’s doing too well as a pro.
A look ahead at local sports action.
In 1949 the village green flagpole came crashing down in a high wind. Read all about it, and much more ripped from the pages of Ye Olde Star, right here.
It’s the bouncing Bonac mailbag.
