The East Hampton Village Foundation’s 5K run and walk happens on Saturday, starting at Main Beach at 9 a.m.
Advance registration costs $33.80 (including online fees) through tomorrow at by clicking here. On race day it rises to $44.15. The route mimics that of the May Day 5K, passing the estates along Ocean Avenue, Lee Avenue, Apaquogue Road, and Lily Pond Lane, and with the leaves at their fall peak, the course should be especially pretty.
There will be medals for the first 100 finishers.
Residents of Sag Harbor have come together to denounce what some see as a troubling wave of chain stores. A petition launched by Save Sag Harbor that calls for new legislation to define and limit “formula retail” or “chain establishments” in the village has been signed by over 500 people in the last week.
After 15 years in Sag Harbor, GeekHampton, which sells and services Apple products, will close on Tuesday at 6 p.m. It will reopen on May 4 in Hampton Bays.
This Thomas Dering and John Hulbert letter had to do with issuing permits of return to those who’d fled Long Island during the British occupation, which is also the topic of the next Tom Twomey lecture Friday night at the East Hampton Library.
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