Montauk's 43rd annual Fall Fest is coming this weekend. On Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the downtown green, there will be farmers market vendors, activities for kids, bands, beer and wine, a silent auction, and, on Saturday beginning at 10 a.m., the popular clam chowder contest.
Commemorative mugs to fill with chowder can be purchased at the chamber office downtown starting at 9 a.m. Saturday. Then people can line up for a sample of chowder prepared by local eateries and chefs.
The Rev. Thomas James of the East Hampton’s first church “came to the New World in search of religious freedom but found that freedom was not enough.” So says an announcement for a lecture next Thursday provokingly titled “The Convict Pastor: Thomas James and the Puritan Roots of Christian Nationalism.”
A storm of smoke covering Long Island and most of New York State has traveled thousands of miles from its source in Canada and the Midwest, leading to multiple air quality alerts here and giving an eerie cast to the skies.
An East Hampton mother enters the uncharted terrain of treating an ultra-rare genetic condition.
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