ARF's Operation Cat Returns Tuesday

Wed, 02/07/2024 - 12:51

Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons

February 7, 2024

The next Operation Cat feral-cat spay and neuter clinic will take place Tuesday at the headquarters of the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, at 124 Daniels Hole Road. Appointments are available at various times throughout the day, and can be made by calling 631-537-0400, extension 202.

Since its launch in 1997, according to ARF, Operation Cat volunteers have controlled feral populations by humanely trapping that animals so that they can be altered, vaccinated, and then released. More than 35,000 cats in feral colonies from Montauk to Brookhaven have been treated. More information is online at arfhamptons.org.

Villages

Buddhist Monks on the Path to World Peace

Twenty of so monks from a monastery in Texas are making their way to Washington, D.C., on a mission of compassion, while locally a class on the Buddhist path to world peace will be held in Water Mill.

Jan 29, 2026

‘ICE Out’ Vigils on Friday

Coordinated vigils for what organizers call victims of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement will happen across the East End on Friday at 6 p.m. and in Riverhead on Saturday at 10 a.m., with local events scheduled in East Hampton Village and Sag Harbor.

Jan 29, 2026

Item of the Week: The Reverend and the Accabonac Tribe

This photostat of a deposition taken on Oct. 18, 1667, from East Hampton’s first minister, Thomas James, is one of the earliest records we have of “Ackobuak,” or “Accabonac,” as a place name.

Jan 29, 2026

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