Volunteers are needed to help pick up trash from road sides in downtown Montauk on Friday morning.
The East Hampton Litter Action Committee, the group organizing the cleanup, will meet at 10 a.m. in the parking lot next to the Montauk IGA. "Any time you can spare" would be helpful, the group says.
Bags for trash collection will be provided. Those pitching should take their own gloves.
When a 76-year-old man collapsed Friday evening while dining at Si Si, a Mediterranean restaurant on Three Mile Harbor, two quick-thinking strangers trained in CPR resuscitated him, not once but twice.
In the middle of a swamp in Sagaponack is a remnant of colonial history, a stand of Atlantic white cedar trees, as important and ubiquitous 300 years ago as iPhones are now. In fact, what is likely the largest Atlantic white cedar tree in the state, and certainly the largest on Long Island, grows there completely unheralded.
The Hampton Lifeguard Association honored Tom Field, a CPR and first-aid instructor for 40 years, Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. for getting the state to recognize Jet Skis as rescue equipment , and Tom Casse, a surf instructor and trained lifeguard who made a dramatic nighttime save in Montauk in 2022.
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