A spaghetti and meatball dinner at the Montauk Firehouse on Saturday will raise money for Randy Hoffman, a volunteer and paid critical care emergency medical technician who has ridden on every ambulance on the South Fork and is recovering from spinal surgery complications at San Simeon by the Sea in Greenport.
There will be two seatings from 4:30 to 6:30 and 6:30 to 9. Tickets cost $15 and can be purchased at the firehouse and from many of the Montauk E.M.T.s or by calling 631-668-5695.
New York City residents who plan to spend Memorial Day weekend on the South Fork and commuters who rely on the train to cut through the eastbound morning traffic were breathing easier as of Monday night, when a strike called by a coalition of five Long Island Rail Road unions was settled.
Only 4 percent of Boy Scouts become Eagle Scouts, and Calogero Sferrazza, a junior at Pierson High School, is about to become one of them. As a scout, he has earned almost 21 merit badges, and plans to earn his final credentials with a project honoring veterans in his hometown of Sag Harbor.
The L.V.I.S., which maintains the trees, greens, ponds, and parks that characterize East Hampton Village, has announced a plan to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States by planting 250 trees over the next decade.
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