LongHouse Offers Scholarships

Tue, 05/16/2023 - 12:06

May 16, 2023

"To recognize creative ambition in all forms," the LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton is offering up two $5,000 college scholarships to high school seniors who will be pursuing environmental studies, science, horticultural design, or the literary, visual, or performing arts.

The deadline to apply is tomorrow. All Suffolk County high school seniors are eligible. Applications must include a two-page, double-spaced letter of interest stating "how LongHouse and/or Jack Lenor Larsen's work or philosophy has inspired you," plus two letters of recommendation and a high school transcript. Full application details are online at bit.ly/3Bw7sel.

Villages

A 40-Mile Protest March, Montauk to Hampton Bays

On Saturday, March 28, the day of nationwide No Kings rallies protesting the Trump administration, pro-immigrant and anti-ICE activists will walk 40 miles from Montauk to Hampton Bays to raise money and awareness, with stops at Amagansett and Town Hall. Sign-up ends March 26.

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Too Much of a Bad Thing

Scores of municipalities from New Hampshire to Pennsylvania have tightened enforcement and strengthened so-called pooper-scooper laws after the brown stuff, like, bloomed out of the melting snow, causing public outcry.

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Hugh King, the town and village historian, will tell the story of East Hampton’s first performing arts venue on March 27 at 7 p.m. for the next Tom Twomey lecture at the library.

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