Edmar Nateras, a 17-year-old Sag Harborite who runs with East Hampton High School’s boys winter and spring track teams, won Jordan’s Run Sunday, a 5K based at Pierson High School in Sag Harbor, where he runs cross-country.
At the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro on June 21, Summer Romeo told her fellow hikers that she could never do the climb again. “We were literally crying from sleep deprivation, agony, headaches, and nausea.” But by journey's end, she was already thinking ahead to her next adventure.
In a converted 1988 Airstream he calls the Gratitude Bus, Stephan Cesarini has been traveling the country on a mission to collect dreams. “The dream question is just a prompt to create human connection. That’s what this bus represents,” he said.
Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine is lobbying New York State for the county to get its fair share of money and resources. With that push, he said, come plans to address some of the most pervasive issues on the South Fork: the suffocating traffic on County Road 39, gaps in public transportation services, water quality improvements, and long-term plans for individual towns to handle municipal solid waste.
On the website of the federal Citizenship and Immigration Services agency, these words appear in big letters, announcing an even bigger policy shift: “Process to Promote the Unity and Stability of Families.” For undocumented residents of the U.S. who have lived here for at least 10 years and are married to American citizens, that means there will be a new opportunity to lawfully obtain a green card.
A service for Carol H. Rogers of Montauk will be held on Tuesday at 5 p.m. at St. Michael's Lutheran Church in Amagansett.
Mina Ellen Cory Kahofer, an executive assistant at Community United Methodist Church in Jackson Heights, Queens, for 23 years, and a Wainscott resident for 30, died at home on July 21. She was 90.
Ruth Schiffman, an author and retired teacher who for many years split her time between East Hampton and New York City, died in New York on June 9. She was 99.
Victoria Montague Helmuth, a native of East Hampton, died on Nov. 7 in Minnesota. She was 78.
Julian Schnabel is being honored with an exhibition of his artworks at Guild Hall and a film retrospective at the Sag Harbor Cinema.
