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.
Sensational mentions of a flesh-eating bacterium aside, the State of the Bays symposium at the Stony Brook Southampton campus offered dire news regarding degraded waterways and climate change.
The Vibrio vulnificus “flesh eating” bacterium “is not unusual in warm saltwater or brackish environments and does not necessarily indicate pollution or a widespread public health emergency,” the Southampton Town Trustees said in an advisory issued following a social media post that went viral.
The L.I.R.R.’s Fishermen’s Special to Montauk and Hampton Bays was once a convenient and popular rail service for urban anglers. The photo here is from 1946.
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