East Hampton Town is offering an ocean lifeguard certification course on Monday and Wednesday evenings at Indian Wells Beach in Amagansett. The course, for those who plan to work as ocean guards, starts this Monday from 6 to 8 p.m. and will conclude on Aug. 12. To take part, trainees must be at least 16 years old.
The cost for those getting certification for the first time is $165; recertification costs $65. Registration is at through the town Recreation Department.
It’s fitting that the winner of East Hampton’s first Holiday Spirit storefront-décorating contest should be a business known for having fascinating windows: The Monogram Shop on Newtown Lane has made national headlines not for its holiday décor but for the tally of political cup sales that, in election cycles past, has been a notoriously accurate predictor of presidential outcomes. The window cup count was wrong in November, but the window display in December is, according to a panel of judges, oh so right.
Pitch Your Peers, a charitable effort launched here in 2023 by Brooke Bohnsack, has awarded a $35,000 grant to the Springs Food Pantry and a $10,000 grant to Project Most, the organization announced on Dec. 1.
Bridgehampton’s Ernestine Rose, an important figure in the history of the New York Public Library, championed preserving Black culture through the Schomburg Collection.
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