Skip to main content

On Serving an Advisory Role

Thu, 04/23/2026 - 08:21

The League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, Shelter Island, and the North Fork will host a program on serving on a town board advisory committee on Monday from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the East Hampton Library. The program was postponed from March 30.

League members from East Hampton, Southampton, and Shelter Island Towns will serve on a panel. They are Glorian Berk, Loring Bolger, Cathy Kenny, Deborah Kooperstein, Jacqui Lofaro, Lois Morris, Olivia Motch, Mary O’Brien, Judy Samuelson, Alicia Sullivan, Evelyn Wolff, and Marian Zucker.

The speakers will discuss how they joined a town advisory committee and committees’ meeting schedules, responsibilities, and accomplishments. Committees to be covered are the planning board, sustainability committee, community housing advisory board, housing authority, dark skies committee, Latino advisory committee, board of ethics, historic burying ground committee, community preservation fund advisory board, and hamlet citizen advisory committees.

Those who attend have been invited to ask questions after the presentations. Refreshments will be served. More information about the league is at lwvhsinf.org.

Villages

Vets Said They Felt the Love at Soldier Ride

“This has been the best experience I’ve ever had. I’ve been telling people, ‘I feel more welcome now than when I actually came home,’ ” said Sabrina Mohammed, a veteran who took part in Soldier Ride the Hamptons on July 18.

Jul 23, 2026

Amagansett Vintage Shop Is a Family Affair

From a 1985 Unimog platform fire truck imported from Germany to black open-toe platform booties, you can find a bit of everything vintage at Georgopoulos Motors on Main Street in Amagansett, where the brother-and-sister team of Stathios and Tiffany Georgopoulos are in business together this summer. He sells the cars, she sells the clothes.

Jul 23, 2026

Item of the Week: Camping by the Sea at Hither Hills

As soon as the campground opened at Hither Hills State Park in Montauk in 1929, camping on the beach became popular, as shown in this vintage postcard.

Jul 23, 2026

 

Your support for The East Hampton Star helps us deliver the news, arts, and community information you need. Whether you are an online subscriber, get the paper in the mail, delivered to your door in Manhattan, or are just passing through, every reader counts. We value you for being part of The Star family.

Your subscription to The Star does more than get you great arts, news, sports, and outdoors stories. It makes everything we do possible.