There will be a blood drive organized by the New York Blood Center on Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Bridgehampton School gym. One lucky donor could win $1,500 worth of shopping at Walmart or Target, and second and third prizes will also be offered as part of the center's "thank-fall sweepstakes."
Walk-ins will be welcomed, but appointments are preferred by calling 1-800-933-BLOOD, visiting nycb.org, or contacting Marie Bouzos-Reilly at the school. The phone number is 631-537-0271.
Twenty or so monks from a monastery in Texas are making their way to Washington, D.C., on a mission of compassion, while locally a class on the Buddhist path to world peace will be held in Water Mill.
Coordinated vigils for what organizers call victims of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement will happen across the East End on Friday at 6 p.m. and in Riverhead on Saturday at 10 a.m., with local events scheduled in East Hampton Village and Sag Harbor.
This photostat of a deposition taken on Oct. 18, 1667, from East Hampton’s first minister, Thomas James, is one of the earliest records we have of “Ackobuak,” or “Accabonac,” as a place name.
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