In support of a statewide community service project called the Great Give Back, the East Hampton Library is collecting donations for the Retreat, a domestic violence shelter and awareness organization here.
Items needed include socks, underwear, full-size toiletry products, and hygiene products, as well as grocery store gift cards.
Donations can be taken to the reference desk at the library through Oct. 14 during normal business hours.
Donovan Solis, the owner of Georgica Services, an auto shop known for its high-end, rare, and classic cars, started working there as a teenager — washing windshields at the gas pumps — and at first, he wasn’t even getting paid to do it.
Kelly and John Piccinnini, the new co-owners and sole operators of 1 Main Street in Sag Harbor — more familiarly known as the Corner Bar — spoke this week about the future of the community staple and meeting place.
Much to the chagrin of her captain, the bark Elmiranda never stood a chance once she was caught in one of our area’s thick fogs in April 1894.
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